I’m saying that he can have an opinion if he wants to. Being white doesn’t make him incompetent or irrelevant when talking about non-white issues. He might not understand the full scope of the experience, but that doesn’t invalidate his opinion.
I agree with all of this, by the way. He can always have an opinion, and he can talk about non-white issues. I’m white too. I’m saying that if a bunch of black people think something is offensive, it might just be offensive despite the white dude who doesn’t think it’s offensive. If there’s any doubt, I’m going to go with the people who have the full scope of the experience.
And as I said, if it’s something ludicrous like Jack Black having to change his name to Jack White (or the Robert Lee thing, slightly less ludicrous but similar) that’s a different story because you aren’t going to find a bunch of black people complaining about that.