Discuss the false dichotomy Oluo points to in relation to her education about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X during her school-age years.

Oluo describes the harmful practice of tone policing, saying that it means to “refuse to listen to someone’s cries for justice and equality until the request comes in a language you feel comfortable with is a way of asserting your dominance over them in that situation” (158). She states that tone policing can come about verbally, or even through nonverbal cues used by a person in power listening to the details of the plight of another person with less power.