This! Ive always thought this was true.

I’m trying hard not to be “angry” about this kind of thing, ya know! (I’m not always successful.) They have lived comfortable lives, in which history, and the “the system” , have not negatively affected them. Nothing in their lives has ever incentivized them to question why they live the way the way they do, which is what would happen, if they were to do a deep dive into why Black people live the way they do.

All their lives, they’ve done what was expected of them, and it’s worked out. So naturally, such people think that if bad things happen to Black people, then they didn’t do things correctly.

The way they did.

It’s easier and more comfortable to be told what to think, and how to feel about what they’ve been told to think. It’s easier to just skim along the water’s surface, and think that’s all there is of the ocean. Critical thinking is hard. It’s takes work and effort, and if a person hasn’t ever practiced it, or ever needed to question the world to be successful in it, it’s really difficult to get them started so late in life.

As a Black Woman, for me to succeed in the world, I have had absolutely no choice in questioning what I see, and have many decades of practice, and I’m trying to be “sympathetic?” to such people. (Yeah, I’m not going to jump in to change their minds, though. I’m retired from those types of discussions.)