And see this is why we didn’t want white people weighing in on a topic they didn’t understand all of the repercussions of.

You’re a white woman. Women like you have been the cause of thousands of lynchings because white men were trying to protect your honor, and many of you said and did nothing about. White men are still out here killing in your name.

Black women never got that damsel in distress treatment. Not only were Black women unprotected from the vagaries of racism and enslavement, Black men weren’t allowed to protect us on pain of lynching. They had no choice but to stand by and watch their daughters, wives and mothers be brutalized and disrespected by white supremacy.

I don’t now how Jada feels about what Will did either, but Black women are some of the least protected women in America, and there are plenty of Black women who while they condemned what Will did to handle the situation, they still understood him standing up on his wife’s behalf, and got where that sort of thing came from. What white people witnessed Sunday was a lot of toxic behavior from both men, with at least some of it based in the generational trauma of the black community.

You really should have had a conversation with black women before you wrote this. This is the reason we were asking white people to stand back and listen to what was being said about an issue that doesn’t have anything to do with white people but they’re making it all about them anyway. You cannot really compare your social situation to that of Black women. It’s a completely different dynamic. It’s great you don’t need white men to protect you, but Black women while we might feel the same as you about the violence, we don’t feel the same about the rest.

(Quite frankly white women weren’t all that protected either, but that’s a whole other topic.)

I’m writing this responses because I respect you as a writer, (I’ve read lots of your stuff), and I think you might actually contemplate what I’ve written.