Your quotes were clear. Black people loot. White people do not. (Or just one at a time!) … Look, this is not about your ego or mine. It is about how we heal and move forward. And it is about this country, where I was born and where I live and where I have seen, in fact, a rise in hate crimes against Asians over the last two years. This is my family that is at stake. I don’t think you know how it feels. I don’t think you understand it. And again the books I am referencing are not about just history but come right up until today. You can say all you want about understanding racism but until you actually try to understand it, you will not. I don’t think we need to rehash the past over and over but we do need to KNOW it, actually. When a white supremacist president has come to power, we have a problem. And we need to look at all aspects of the problem. You are not responding to what I am actually writing. I did not say Rittenhouse was guilty (I don’t know). I said the context was within a white supremacist environment & growing movement which is documented in the resources I have shared but you refuse to even look at. This means you are not serious about the issue—which probably means you should not be writing about it. We are human beings. And lives are at stake.