Originally Posted by BeatNavy

Yet here you are responding, but with nothing of substance to support your assertion that one can only have a role model who is the same skin color.

If I said “I would only look up to a white person because I’m white,” and that I wouldn’t consider to be role models the Tuskegee airmen, Michael Jordan, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Tiger Woods (formerly, and in limited capacity now due to some of his personal issues, but one of my childhood role models nonetheless), and many others I’ve looked up to in my life, because “they didn’t look like me,” you would (rightfully) call me a racist, because I would be judging someone and limiting their influence on me solely because of their skin color. When I call you on advocating for the same, you no longer want to discuss it. Hmmm.

You want to express/impose your beliefs that people can only look up to those who are of the same race. I grew up using MLK’s “judge people by their character, not the color of their skin” idea as a moral compass. Why are you advocating for judging, dividing and separating, and treating people differently based on their skin color? Isn’t that going back many decades with race relations? I guess that’s 2021 “progress” though.