Thank you for responding and clarifying. I agree that constant bickering is not intelligent discourse and the type of hateful abuse you’ve received from people is not acceptable. I would still say the death threats black Americans have received is far greater than the type and kind you have received and they are done anonymously. No one on either side though should be allowed to make such threats and at a minimum there should be a rule or law to “unmask” these people’s identities. Arrest might be too much as it would overwhelm the system, but forcing media companies to unmask them after making a threat would tamper way down on the death threats in particular.
Unfortunately, I myself didn’t clarify. I was not talking about the trolls but politicians. The examples you give of Pelosi and the governor of hypocrisy are not acceptable, but they are not examples of spewing vitriol or tweeting hate speech, or signaling racial hatred. They are minor in comparison to Congressmen Gosar, Greene, Gaetz, and Trump, the king of angry insults and violent vitriol. Politicians words and actions do matter, and deliberate incitement to violence is horrible, it worse is the policy that affects the lives of millions of blacks. You or I have not been stopped by police on a regular basis at a traffic stop and even the policeman draw his gun for nothing. My stops have been civil. The fear of ordinary blacks can’t be compared to that us, as it was the whites doing the violence against blacks for minor infractions for one hundred years after slavery and the horrors of it. Whites were doing the lynching, the beatings, the jailing, the denial of voting for 200 years (and yes, blacks—fire blacks in particular—had a write to vote in most states, with North Carolina for instance changing its laws to fully deny votes to blacks in 1835, only 30 years before the civil war).
Thus, the vitriol spewed by politicians and media trolls from the right is far different—or taken far differently by those on the left. I can “easily” shrug off the insults and threats, though I was “scared” at first of the open hatred of me and whites by black Americans. I’ve been worried my comments would be misinterpreted by black Americans. But the comments black Americans get don’t need to be misinterpreted as they are directly racial slurs, racial threats, racial animus from violence signaling. I don’t have hundreds of years of government repression, and physical brutality, backing up those rants against me. I don’t know what the anonymous hatred made against me in comments sections by black Americans in comments sections (and there are few compared to what white right wingers hurl at me) will lead to. But black Americans do. They know the end result: brutality, arrests, jail. Whites were the ones with a long irrational history of violence against black Americans, and most of that violence went unpunished, with no arrests and trials leading to real convictions until the 1981 lynching in Alabama.
I am from Buffalo and was raised there. I know that Democrats are responsible for building the “inner city” that the black Americans live in and shop in. I was born in a “sun down” town. The sun down ordinances were made an enforced by democrats from the late 19th century until 1970. They were made by thousands of white democrat politicians on the local and county level who deliberately made them to keep black Americans out of town after sun down—or else. They were made to be the first redlining laws to segregate black Americans out of the community, to not let them live there. They were made overwhelming outside of the South—which didn’t need them. They were made in towns on the west coast, Wisconsin (that had an all white county), 600 in Arkansas, in New York State, like my birth town. They were all unconstitutional ordinances and laws against blacks. There was no laws made by any black Americans against white Americans equivalent to them that led to more formal segregation, as is the case of redlining. And never were they overturned or repudiated officially. There was no black equivalent laws, because history is vastly lopsided.

So, I would agree that democrats are not deserving of your vote, but for the same reason as republicans—denial of recognizing what black Americans went through under white rule. Knowing your American history can make you more sensitive to what black Americans have gone through to get here, not less. As much as we can learn though, we can never walk a mile in their shoes, we’re older and have walked more than half the way. We can only try the shoes on and stroll for a bit.


Best of luck to you and I appreciate your candid response.