You don&#x27;t have to be convinced to be respectful. It is certainly not their job and probably not their goal to convince you.<p>Also, it&#x27;s not obvious at all that there&#x27;s a messaging problem. I get that a bunch of white people don&#x27;t like the message. But a bunch of white people will dislike anything black people do to push back against a system that harms them.<p>For decades white people have been telling black activists that they&#x27;re doing it wrong. And their main cited evidence is that white people are uncomfortable. MLK got a lot of that, and he responded to it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.africa.upenn.edu&#x2F;Articles_Gen&#x2F;Letter_Birmingham.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.africa.upenn.edu&#x2F;Articles_Gen&#x2F;Letter_Birmingham....</a><p>I certainly agree that the &quot;Black Lives Matter&quot; slogan makes me, a white person, uncomfortable. But as far as I&#x27;m concerned, that&#x27;s just what it should be doing. If other people are being maltreated by a system that I have the power to change, that shouldn&#x27;t feel warm and fuzzy.