I’ve had so many conversations this weekend with black folks talking about how we can get our points across to white people in positions of power and the point that they don’t know what to say/do, feel uncomfortable, hadn’t realised etc etc came up a lot and i don’t believe it.

It made me think of some times in my recent career where well meaning liberal white people have deliberately stopped me from talking about race because it’s boring to them or not the right time.

I used to work somewhere where in meetings whenever I mentioned the need for representation and diversity in programming she would openly roll her eyes. She would do this every single time. She knew there was a need but was bored of talking about it because she was prepresented.

I once helped make a kids show that featured a story of a black girl playing hockey and a kid on the ice calling her a black b, it was a real story. My well meaning white liberal bosses made us remove that part of the story because it may make the children ask why this happened.

My well meaning white bosses did not want to create something to where white families may have to talk about race, knowing the little black girl in the story didn’t have that privilege and it was a white kid who did it. This is why I don’t buy the I don’t know what to do

Or I’m uneducated in race things argument because you all are. And people in power use their privileges to water down or squash stories of the black experience because they can’t relate or it’s boring.

It’s not just the far right that uphold white supremacy. There’s more well meaning white liberals who do it every single day.

After you send your #BlackLivesMatter posts how about truly think about ways you’ve shut down your black colleagues in the past and change the behaviour