Dear BothSidesNow:

Very often, when people talk about politics and social justice, what they are really talking about, right underneath the issues supposedly discussed, is their own hurts and fears and anger at their own personal injuries, traumas and injustice.

In your post above, there is this sentence: “Lately, I have found myself wanting to kill myself because of being white.”-

This is not about you being white. Your thinking brain is attaching your distress to being white. Clearly, the solution to social injustice, past and present, is not mass suicide of white people, is it?

Truth is, clearly, that you are in pain, personal pain. Will you tell more about your personal pain? I’d like to read more, to understand. I would so much want you to feel better, soon enough… and heal. Maybe telling more, here, will help…

anita