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Brittney, you refer to these white people as 'liberals.' If you're speaking to liberals, you are coming at this backwards. We are not 'choosing black people to learn & earn diversity cookies from.' We are consistently supporting liberals some of whom are black. (Thread to follow) https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk/status/1274698133289738240
It is not liberals who believe that knowledge is tied to identity & so we do not believe there is an 'authentic black voice' that white people can learn from. This is a Social Justice scholarship & activism thing while liberalism focuses on the individual & common humanity.
The difference between SocJus & liberal anti-racism when it comes to listening to people of racial minority is thus: We both ascribe more value to the people who share our core principles, but liberals can be open about it because we think consistent principles are a good thing.
We don't have the same need you do to claim to be listening to people because of their identity because we don't think that's a good thing. Therefore we don't have to tie ourselves in the same knots you do when you try to explain why some black people are authentic & some are not
You might have to go on about the difference between being 'racially black' and 'politically black' in order to make the people who agree with you authentic black people and the others not so much. We don't have to. We can think they are all authentic but some of them are wrong.
The ideas of Candace Owens? Mostly factually & ethically wrong. The ideas of Kimberlé Crenshaw? Mostly factually & ethically wrong. They're not the wrong ideas for black people. They're the wrong ideas to create a just society.
This doesn't mean that we need to deny that when it comes to talking about anti-black racism, the people who will have had most experience of it will be black & thus be in a better position to describe the material & psychological impact of it.
It does mean that we recognise that black people have a wide range of ethical positions on the matter of anti-black racism & advocate a wide range of solutions to them. This doesn't make any of them more or less authentically black & the idea that it does is really quite racist.
Liberals who value an evidence-based epistemology & reasoned arguments will evaluate any individual's ideas on this basis. This just works much better than pointing at a black individual saying everything is racist or nothing is racist & declaring them the authentic black voice.
