These are interesting times in politics and regarding social changes.  And in interesting times arguments and grievances are often over simplified.  Such is the case with the current progressive movements such as Black Lives Matter and the MeToo movements, to use a few popular examples.

These are needed movements, no doubt, and continued progress towards equal opportunity for blacks and women is necessary.  And there is, as ever, a ‘however’.  However, the enemy in the sights is the wrong man.

It is true that it has been white, patriarchal powers that have constantly stood in the way of equal opportunity for all, but it is not white men that are at fault here. It has been and continues to be god and greed.  It has and has always been desire to undermine Truth,  and power that is at fault.

To say that white men have created the road blocks that stand in the way of social progress can be likened to the argument that the prisons are primarily filled with black men because black men are guilty of most of the crime.  There is a disconnect.  There is a hidden falsehood.

To argue that white men are the problem, the core of the issue is to imply that other cultures and genders would be or are any different.  They would not and are not, as a study of world history will attest.

If it is white men that are the problem, and currently it is for the most part white men that are the problem, then it is those particular white men that need to step down.  However, and more importantly, it is the power (the corporate and religious power here) that is the problem, not white men.  Rid the country of corporate and religious power, and black lives will actually matter and women will be able to finally claim: me too!