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, that’s a different story because you aren’t going to find a bunch of black people complaining about that.
Let’s say hypothetically that you could, though. There is a very large contingent of black people that are mad about Jack Black’s name. Would you still say that it’s silly?
Hypothetically, I’d still say I think it’s silly, but I’d also allow for the possibility that I don’t fully understand the situation due to my experiences being different than a black person’s experiences. Yeah, it’s probably still silly, but why do so many black people believe otherwise?
So would you then demand that Jack Black change his name?
I haven’t yet heard why so many black people are offended by his current name.
You didn’t answer the question. We were talking about a hypothetical where very large contingent of black people were mad about the guy’s name.