Thanks for your response. When I mean "follow Black people," I mean the ones around you, but also those who are invested in anti-racism causes. As we Black folk say, "not all skinfolk is kinfolk."

We Black people are fairly collective, but we don't think the same. But when it comes to our status as second-class citizens, most of us have the same goal: to not be second-class citizens.

Most of us just want to live our lives in peace and some of us do that by "not rocking the boat." Others see the Sisyphean task of Black people having to prove our humanity and call bullshit.

If this is a roundabout way to ask if you should listen to Candace Owens or Thomas Sowell, consider their positions and who it actually appeals to. They aren't anti-racism scholars. Owens ins't a scholar at all and Sowell is an economics scholar who is libertarian and who promotes race-intelligence pseudoscience. They are talking heads. They say things to be quoted and to receive a check. There is a reason there aren't many Black people watching Fox or reading Townhall.

A Movement like BLM has clear goals and the positions of the group are what some would consider "very left." There are smaller factions that say we should pay more attention to Black women and Black LGBT, especially Transpeople. I'm in that camp. Unfortunately, there are several Black people who disagree for whatever reason. I'm also a vocal critic of hoteps.

If you do anti-racism work long enough, you'll develop an ability to sift the garbage positions of other Black people. We're not immune. But it's also not your place to challenge it. So in that sense you should follow the lead of a Black person who is familiar with those talking points.