[quote MyEyesightIsBadLetsGoForADrive]@PatricksRum I would take heart from people being so (wilfully?) obtuse here and arguing with you - ironically they are proving your very point!
I really seriously wonder what the motivation is of those (especially you @Hearhoovesthinkzebras) who are so persistent in arguing, badgering, questioning and denying the OP's experience. I'm actually a little embarrassed for you as you are making yourself look so ignorant (as in ill informed).
On that note, again, do you realise how you sound?
"Educate me - tell me how not to be a racist" do you need telling?
"You have to teach me so I know" I don't know how not to be a racist myself
"But you don't want people to be racist so it's your responsibility to tell me, explain and teach people how not to be racist" if you need teaching how not to be a racist how the fuck can you not realise YOU are the problem!
You're not exactly making yourself look good here. Aren't you a bit ashamed to be like this and hectoring the OP so much when the whole point is she wants to say something important and it's not about you.
I actually started reading this thread (I didn't see the first one) thinking ooh OP is a bit rude, it's a bit goady and not in the spirit of MN. But then I woke the fuck up 
the spirit of MN is to be kind and make people's lives easier isn't it?. People aren't being kind to OP in RL and making her life easier, quite the opposite and I don't see why she has to be kind herself in pointing this out especially when people seem to be so keen to argue with her and deny her own lived experience. (I also think this is a feminist issue especially with women expected to be kind and they're always bossy where a man is assertive). But I don't want to derail the thread further 
Seriously why can't people just shut the fuck up and listen instead of declaring proudly they don't know anything about something and want to be spoon fed and demand OP tailors her thread to them as they are so important. Oh the irony. Just shut up and listen then!
So like I said, you are nicely proving the very point OP is trying to make. Well done.
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I'm not asking anyone to educate my how not to be racist, because I'm not racist.
I have said repeatedly that I will always, and have always, challenged racism whenever I've witnessed it.
I've got into trouble at work for calling out customers who seem to think it's ok to make racist comments to me and assume that because I'm white I will agree with them .
I've intervened when I've seen comments being made to strangers.
I've called people out when they've made racist jokes.
I campaign for social change, for an end to poverty, I've volunteered in schools and pushed for increased opportunities and programmes to encourage students from BAME to have aspirations.
What I've been asking for on here is help in understanding why AME people are being excluded from the movement that is happening now. I don't understand for example, why there are posters on here being told to shut up, to leave the thread, receiving abuse because they are not black, even though they aren't white. That's what I don't understand. Those communities will face racism, discrimination, abuse, poverty, attack. Why are they excluded from this?
The op keeps referring to black people being murdered by white people yet Asian people are subject to horrific attacks including houses being fire bombed and entire families wiped out.
That's what I'm struggling to understand. The area where I live is a very high Muslim population and I often hear women in Islamic dress abused.
I don't understand why this movement isn't including them.
But apparently that makes me a racist.
Op keeps asking me if I support BLM, and my answer is yes, absolutely. But am I only going to support BLM and not racism faced by the AME population - no.
So apparently me saying that I am against all forms of racism makes me racist.
This is what I don't understand.