I have no clue what it is like to be black in the US. I can listen to others give their accounts, and try to understand, but that’s about the extent of my cross-race experience.

Given that I really have no clue what it is like to be a different race or ethnicity, I feel it is time to stop dismissing other black peoples’ claims and experiences. I do my best to not judge a person based on their skin, but that doesn’t mean nobody else judges based on skin.

Black Americans have real experiences, and it is time to start trying to understand and empathize rather than turning it into a political issue, and attacking the individual with statistics.