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I'd also just like to ask - have you asked yourself why you (seem to) approach this issue in such a critical matter?
A lot of the points you've raised, whilst not necessarily totally without merit in and of themselves*, are very frequently used by folks with either no skin in the game or ulterior motives to dismiss the anti-racism movement as a whole, to try to undermine its aims by calling out perceived hypocrisy (akin to the 'neo-racism' you mentioned) or downplaying the effects of racism (e.g. 'person X is black, and they've not experienced Y').
*I'm well aware that 'the left', especially on twitter can be somewhat over-zealous, or quickly jump to see particular events through a particular lens - but relatively speaking these this is so far down my list of things to be worried about within this particular conversation, especially on a forum/thread like this, I'm just curious about people for who it seems to prove as big a hurdle it does.
As ever the phrase 'don't let perfect be the enemy of good' comes to mind.