White people insist on a certain level of comfort in the discourse and comfort for

white people amounts to black people never discourse and

comfort for white people amounts to black people never challenging anything they do.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

In politics, it is often tempting to ignore the sins of your own side.

If you are faced with a genuine threat from the other side of political spectrum.

If somebody like Donald Trump as president or the United States and

gearing up for re-election, it seems prudent not to talk about the things that are going wrong among people who claim

to be on your own side.

But I cannot stop thinking that this is both morally wrong and strategically wrong.

It is morally wrong because it has, as we can see in the United States in the last weeks and months made mainstream institutions,

newspapers, broadcasting, corporations, even some politicians, overly reluctant to speak out about the dangers, for example of violent protests.

It has allowed some of those institutions to let political extremists and radicals,

many of whom, by the way,

has so happened to be white,

to use genuine protests for racial justice

and against police violence in the own name.

It is also strategically unwise because those citizens on whom have a strong pre-existing

depend, those who don't have a strong preexisting

commitment to one side or the other,

will notice the reluctance to be honest about what's going on on your own side of the aisle,

rather than failing to recognize that some bad things are happening because those institutions are silent about it.

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