“Living in NZ and with zero-patience for Trump I Had never heard of this guy.”

So the descendent of a colonizer has no cursory knowledge about the subject of the writing, yet chooses to interject his very wrong opinion.

Sounds about white.

“’Every Black person knows a Black conservative, a contrarian who stands athwart all our traditions.’ and it has a corollary: ‘Every White person knows a White liberal contrarian who stands athwart all our traditions””.

I bet you see yourself as the liberal, bruh?

I have blue eyes and find this remark offensive: “”the White gaze, which would never see him as fully human””.

Hit dogs will holler, so I can see why you find it offensive.

“Do you really believe white skinned folk like myself are incapable of seeing brown & black skinned people as fully human?”

Given your previous “corollary,” yes. You can only contextualize Blackness in the presence of whiteness, instead of understanding it as its own separate, autonomous concept. You are not as good as you think you are.

“If so you have insulted me and my Melanesian wife.”

This really isn’t the flex you think it is.

Please moderate your language and ask yourself why you are writing for people of all skin colours if you truly believe in a concept like “White Gaze”.

What in that piece made you think I was writing for white people, colonizer? Just because you read it doesn’t mean it was for you, homie.