Separating issues

Is police brutality a problem? Yes.

Do I have to accept what any black person says about white people as if it's the absolute truth? No.

Do I have the 1st Amendment right to call out black racism toward white people? Yes, and I almost never do.  It is the last thing I ever want to say about anyone.

Never in my life, before 2010, did I have a reason to dislike even one black person.

From all of my years of blogging, who can think of my having issued statements about what black people are like as a group? Can anyone do that?  I don't think so.

Can anyone think of my having used the n-word in all of that time, in a decade of written and filmed posts in which swear words are liberally scattered? I know that NOBODY can; it is not there, not in the hundreds of thousands of words that I have written and spoken.  There is one post in which I wrote about my observations of how some of the black people whom I knew used the word. I hope that everyone that has accused me explicitly or otherwise of racism reads it.

I do not use that word.  I don't use it seriously.  I don't use it as a joke.  I don't try to copy black speech and say it in a friendly way.  That word does not come out of my mouth, my pen or my keyboard.  I understand that the word is off-limits to me forever and is the possession of the black community to use, avoid or decry as the community deems appropriate.

I have nothing to be ashamed of in my conduct toward black people.  Can every black person who knows who I am say the same about his or her conduct toward me?