You're being uncharitable to what she's saying. She is claiming that there is no consensus among the Black community on what white allies should or shouldn't do. She's trying to listen but there are people saying she should and shouldn't do all these different contradictory things. "Listen to BPOC" but she IS TRYING and they are saying different things? So that's what this article is about in my opinion. How difficult it is to know what to do, when there is no one "voice of the Black community" to "listen" to, and doing what some Black people tell you to do will get you cancelled as a bigot by others and vice versa. It feels like you can't win.

I've seen on Medium this very thing. An article saying "Dear white people stop calling yourself allies", another saying "White people should call themselves allies not advocates", one claiming "White people hate black people even if they don't consciously hate them", another one claiming "can a white person ever really be friends with a black person?", one claiming "the way to stop racism is to have more black friends and listen to them", one claiming "it's not your black friends' job to tell you what to do, that's emotional labour and thus racist", "listen to black people", "don't ask someone to educate you, google it", "listen to individual lived experiences". "Reach out to other white people and educate them", "don't assume you know the solution to white people so don't make yourself an educator, don't centre yourself", "white people need to speak out against racism more", "white people need to shut the fuck up and let black people talk more", "white people need to stop pretending that they're angry at racism because they have no right to be angry" - "why aren't white people angry about racism?"

The overarching takeaway from this cacophony of voices is that as a white person there is NO WAY you can do the right thing. Even if you earnestly try your best. Because there is no "right thing" that Black people can agree on that they want white people to do. And that's because Black people are (just like all people) diverse, and not monolithic.

But everyone commenting on race right now thinks that the Black Voice is monolithic, and that white people are monolithic in their racism, and that if you point out that neither of these things are true it's a sign of your "white fragility" and you just need to "examine your own racism more" like NO THAT DOESN'T HELP IN THIS SITUATION BECAUSE THERE IS NO CLEAR DIRECTION AND NO WAY TO NOT BE RACIST APPARENTLY.