&gt; Surely, if this pain is something only black people can understand and they are so united in this movement, then it suggests that their grievances ARE legitimate.<p>Please don&#x27;t stop here - please try to understand where their grievances are coming from.  College is when a lot of people are at their most radical, and on top of that, a lot of nuance is lost in soundbites.  There&#x27;s a lot of noise out there.<p>I think something especially important that&#x27;s lost on people here is how emotionally exhausting it is to live in a place where you&#x27;re constantly denigrated (I mean it&#x27;s the root of that word, lol).  It&#x27;s especially hard to draw an empathetic picture when there&#x27;s no common personably relatable situation to draw a comparison to.  Like at best you could say &quot;it&#x27;s like getting picked on for being a nerd,&quot; except that misses the hundreds of years of American slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, media representation, and a hundred other small issues.<p>And then that&#x27;s multiplied by the fact that when you try to explain it to a single person, you face a mountain of resistance every time, and the rest of your society doesn&#x27;t really want to hear your complaints.  Most people in this thread won&#x27;t even acknowledge that they MIGHT have a point!  Imagine that every day in every interaction for your entire life!