Brian Sansom
1 min readOct 8, 2020

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I can see the angle that you are coming from. To some extent, that is what we are seeing in society and here on medium of people speaking to each other as skin color groups rather than individuals. I've read 20 articles that basically say, "Dear white people..."

I am a Russian immigrant. I'm Jewish. I'm an American. If you had said "America has no culture" id say there is more of an argument there than white people have no culture, since America has borrowed from a lot of different countries. There are a lot of characteristics about my cultural identity that belongs to a lot of different categories. Even within the united states, we can see a huge amount of cultural diversity between different regions.

As an attorney, about 85-90% of my clients are black. I have clients from Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire, Eretria, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia both recent immigrants and long-time Americans. There is a huge amount of cultural diversity there as well, so "black culture" is a grouping term that similarly does not convey the diversity within skin color.

I agree with you, the idea is harmful. We need to stop categorizing people by the color of their skin.

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Brian Sansom
Brian Sansom

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