Your feels are not why the Green Book exists and the Civil Rights Movement was not to move past mentalities like his. The Civil Rights Movement was to make whit

Your feels are not why the Green Book exists and the Civil Rights Movement was not to move past mentalities like his. The Civil Rights Movement was to make white people stop systematically oppressing black people and taking advantage of their persons and their property. Those survival mechanisms you half-heartedly nod to are still necessary today because the police in America will kill you without a blink if you're black and the likelihood that they get away with it is very, very high. Re-casting the movement to make white people stop oppressing black people as a shot at "mentalities like his," when white people have been oppressing, killing, and enslaving black people for the entirety of the history of this country is beyond the pale. And, to be very clear, I am white. I'm also not dishonest, though, and that matters.