Martin Luther King was obviously wishing for a post-racial society in his "I have a dream" speech and the extreme focus on identities instead of seeking commonality and solidarity today is demoralising and unsettling in terms of the scale it has reached.

But some people use that speech to now effectively shut down criticisms of things such as police brutality and employment discrimination unfairly impacting black men (though this is why I think a better strategy is to focus on the discriminated group than the privileged one)

This is a disingenuous distortion of his words and erases that he was ultimately an antiracist campaigner and if he was alive today, he would probably be maligned by the same people invoking his name to insist that the only way we end racism if we stop talking about it.

Pointing out divisions doesn't cause divisions. It just points them out. Of course there is a manner in which we go about things that matter. The cancel culture or obsession with focus on white privilege is self-destructive in my opinion.

But I think sometimes there are some people who are invested in maintaining the status quo that even if people compromised on all these issues, they might still have a problem with something.