The terms "white privilege," "white fragility," and the concept of "white tears" have been so overused (at least on my FB feed and on Twitter here in my haven of diversity that is Chicago) that it has all become nothing more than empty rhetoric. This is not to say these things do not exist. There should be no question as to the necessity for acknowledging these conditions that exist in our fundamentally white supremacist institutionalized system.

I’m not a woman. I’ve never been a woman and I have no desire to be a woman. I aim to understand women in the same way I aim to understand all living humans with whom I share this planet.

So, this is where I'll tell you that I have often been wrong in my life.  I have been wrong when it really mattered.  I have done wrong with the confidence that what I was doing was right.  I have been wrong when other people have assured me I was right.

I know exactly how to achieve equality. Be persuasive via the angriest mob.