Yes. As I said, we all screw up, and we all come at things from our own perspective. As members of the dominant group, we have the luxury of not having to see others' perspectives. Any movement dependent on legitimizing minority perspectives has an uphill battle in that regard. People who care will provide solutions from their perspective and feel alienated when they're told they're participating in the marginalization of minority perspectives.
Minorities don't need my solutions. They need my support for their solutions.
> Minorities don't need my solutions. They need my support for their solutions.
This is a common but, IMO -- speaking as a member of a minority on one important axis and a non-minority on other important axes -- misguided view.
As a developer, I wouldn't say "business users don't need my solutions, they need my support for their solutions" -- though I might say "business users need me to be attentive to their interests and needs in proposing solutions".
Similarly, minorities don't need blind adherence to their demands from the majority any more than vice versa -- certainly, people who are outside of a particular minority can often have important and useful perspective on solutions to the problems faced by minorities. But a key part of that is really paying attention to the interests of people in the group at issue.
Who, usually, aren't going to be monolithic, and some of whom are going to disagree with any solution, whether its proposed by a fellow member of the minority or not. And, yes, they'll often bring lack of minority status into it if the person they disagree with is outside of the minority (but then, they'll often bring betrayal language into it if the person is a member of the minority -- that's not because either is a valid critique, its because both are convenient emotional attack vectors.)
I guess it's not right to say our solutions aren't needed. It's just that our voice and the sorts of solutions we'll tend to come up with are not underrepresented. Far too often our solutions are "be more white", "stop being poor", and the like: "Abandon your perspective and become a member of the dominant group."
We need solutions that acknowledge minority experiences and treat them as valuable, not solutions that simply impose majority viewpoints.
Minorities don't need my solutions. They need my support for their solutions.