I don't think I said anything that deserved a "slam" as you call it, but I thank you for taking my question to heart and responding. If we cannot begin with simple conversations, then we will never get to a better place, so I appreciate the dialogue.

I did want to bring attention to this highlight because it's a sentiment that most white people share but it's quite misguided. Black people do not nor have ever claimed "victimhood". It is impossible to label people who were kidnapped and brought here for the sole purpose of servitude and who fought their way out of one the most horrendous oppressive situations known to man as victims. On the contrary, we are SURVIVORS whose ancestors have granted us the strength and power to endure under conditions that most would not subject an animal to.

The women's rights movement cannot equate to the Black power movement. They are completely different. Women's rights are geared towards the empowerment of white women - Black women do not and have never benefits from this movement. Our talents were used to assist in this fight, but make no mistake, it is white women who are the beneficiaries of those struggles.

I'm not sure what you think Black people have not taken responsibility for, but a simple reading of our history and all that we have done when our sole purpose for being brought here was for servitude to white supremacists is anything BUT victimhood. I would submit that it is white people who play the victim card any time racism is brought it. Instead of hearing what you plan to write about, we hear how "they weren't born during slavery" or "they never owned slaves" or "all that stuff happened hundreds of years ago" or "Black people are just playing victim."

Claiming victimhood in the negative connotation that you use would be people who had every advantage afforded to them and still did not succeed. This actually applies more to white people in this society, like those who stormed the Capitol, fighting for rights that all of them have, more than anyone else in this country, but they still feel as if they aren't being given something they deserve. Victimhood cannot be applied to people who are surviving and THRIVINIG in a system that designed specifically to thwart the growth and success of not just our generation, but all of our future generations, making it virtually impossible to create generational wealth for our families.

I'm looking forward to reading your article.