I see you and what you're saying. I always feel a bit awkward in these conversations because I feel I have received a lot of help in life and also am a complete

I see you and what you're saying. I always feel a bit awkward in these conversations because I feel I have received a lot of help in life and also am a complete dunce when it comes to race/gender and DEI discussions as a cis white male. So... if I haven't shot my own foot off yet, take my thoughts with a grain of salt and feel free to hit me with some better ways to see things if I'm dumb/ignorant? From my perspective, _everyone_ stands on the shoulders of other folks. Not one single person built what they have, know, and can do in a silo. I'm convinced that anyone that claims otherwise lacks introspection. I see the concern around thinking "I couldn't have done XYZ without help of others" and feeling patronized and concerned that you are unable to have accomplished the same under a counterfactual world without help. I feel this assessment misses that everyone else would have had "help" of similar variety as well to accomplish XYZ. And yes, townhalls parading around folks as tokens is abysmal. My undergraduate school, a notoriously bad-at-race-relations school, had a Multiculutral office from which the same 15 people were requested for dozens of brochures produced each year. In my mind, these are the same things and my friends doing the brochures didn't like being token folks. Doing so undermines the confidence of the people being paraded.