Birmingham jailer to MLK: What do you people want? MLK: Respect. Wise man. Everything else would follow from that. But short of full respect, what do our Black brothers and sisters want? Would reparations do? No Whitesplaining would be a good start, I hear. (BTW, I'm supposed to pass for White in this society, but I don't like it.) So I will recite facts, and quote the views of our Black brothers and sisters.
I have heard it said that respect would be better than material reparations.
But you can't eat respect. So short of that, until millions more angry old White guys die off in mostly the normal way, let’s talk about what the rest of us can do toward dismantling systemic racism at every level of government, and in corporate behavior.