White people can understand discrimination against a group of blue skinned aliens, home to a universe of colorful music, forced to work for the humans, and humans appropriating their work.
White people can understand interspecies discrimination where the more prominent and perceived "superior" species within that society controls the narrative and steal from the perceived "lower" species within that same society, cast off to the shadows, who then in the future plan a revolt against them, in a step to creating a world that is fair.
White people can understand that many groups of people suffer from different forms of discrimination, that there is a hierarchy whether we like it or not, and that the lower the discriminated group is perceived in the hierarchy, the more backlash against their development.
All this in movies, tv shows, cartoon, etc.
Yet they draw the line at actual human beings. They draw the line at empathizing with Black Americans. They draw the line at understanding Black American's sentiments, their feelings, their line of reasoning, why many Black Americans say what they say, why they have phrases such as "they wanna be black but don't wanna be Black", the meaning behind their actions. They draw the line at attempting to understand their fellow Americans who live and breathe systematic and social racism to this day.
And it's simple. Because they view themselves as part of the problem. They are aware of how they contribute to the problem. Otherwise, they wouldn't be personally insulted and instead would raise awareness and embrace their affected fellow humans.
When they watch or read these mediums, there is a thin line of separation that allows these themes to not breach into reality completely, to continue to blur the lines, where they can even self insert, even play the victim or the savior, as it doesn't directly address the racism that occurs in reality.
When they must take off those rose-colored glasses, the first instinct is to deflect from Black American struggles, the main defense going "well I am not racist. I didn't own enslaved people. I have nothing to do with the history [despite that racism evolves as viruses do and take on modern forms to adapt with the times, systemically and socially]" or whitesplaining where they try to educate the Black and/or Melanated Poc on racism + intersectional racism in an attempt to not discuss the racism topic directly, follow by a white savior response of "I have black friends. I enjoy black media. I love doing xyz [Black centric or includes Black people]. Black people are my people. I grew up in the hood. Don't you dare call me racist. I know what's racist and what's not" or a victim response to minimize racism (nevermind that disgusting and false racial constructs came about in the birth of brutal American chattel slavery all across the Americas) "Black people aren't the only ones! Irish had it too! Blondes had it too! What about what the Africans did to the Whites! What about what the Arabs did to the Africans!"
How unfortunate the human race can be. So absorbed and selfish, in their own pain, they are unable to see the imbalances (imposed hierarchy), the prolonged lack of equity, towards other humans in the world around them. We are gifted higher consciousness, we have advanced means of connection and knowledge, and this is how we reduce it and how we behave instead.
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