I'm just as outraged about police brutality as I was this morning. But I'm never going to engage about it on here ever again. If the simple act of expressing solidarity is gonna force me to defend myself, I'll skip it, thanks.

It upsets me that you feel behooved to halt engagement on this topic and potentially others out of an instinct of self-preservation, of keeping the blood pressure low as my eighth grade social studies teacher puts it. Hopefully you only feel that way because of the heat of the moment, because I have questions! : )

For one, these actionable items for concerned white males: besides continual awareness expansion and civic engagement, what more can we do? (I mean that question seriously, I hope it doesn't read sarcastically.) And also, is it inappropriate for white males to come up with answers to that question? Is the domain of that question reserved only for minorities to answer? I ask this because I would normally feel pretty confident in my abilities to brainstorm and act but I've been brushing up close, through hubski and other avenues, with these new ideas of social justice, chiefly, that the white man stay back and simply make room for those historically dispossessed and disenfranchised. I guess my natural inclination to get my hands dirty is running into some really sophisticated ideas on how things should truly progress.