Cherry,

Thanks for the dialogue, you make me think…especially about history.

In any war against inequality and the injustices of a corrupt system which perpetuates the obscene division of wealth, a system which inculcates with racist laws and violence and disproportional levels of incarceration if not lynching (or the more modern equivalent of cops killing unarmed Black people), one will continue to need allies.

In terms of what you see as paternalism: I don’t need anyone to play the sycophant because my country (Upper Canada) was the end terminus of the underground railway. There’s still much work to be done in Canada and we are working on it: but all of us are welcome to the solution table.

And Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman: born in 1941…you know, he was raised as a Jew with all the angst that represents to anyone after the Second World War and its genocidal madness. And that’s not even getting into the rampant anti semitism so prevalent across North America, especially during the 1950’s and 60's.

And while he changed his last name in homage to the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, one cannot help but wonder if he also did so for other reasons.

Like, the KKK didn’t just go after Black folks, as you know Leo Frank was lynched in 1915 in Atlanta for a crime he didn’t commit. The KKK didn’t particularly like Catholics either.

And you’ve watched ‘Mississippi Burning’? James Chaney, a young black man was killed along with two Jewish young men, willing to put their lives on the line for civil rights and paid for it with their lives: Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.

Can you imagine what would have happened if those two ‘white’ people had been told they were not welcome to help overcome the Jack Crow laws?

To reiterate: my main point is that all should be welcome to the solution table in order to stop the non-sensical and counter intuitive notion of stereotyping when stilling a voice because its vocal chords are colour coded.