hey fellow white people in the mogai community: we gotta start doing more to point out and address racism in our community.
i know a lot of us (myself included!) are hesitant to point out and address racism because we feel it's not our place, don't want to speak over POC, etc., but unfortunately that just results in the burden falling solely on POC. if we ignore racism when we see it, even if it's coming from a place of not wanting to do the wrong thing, we're contributing to the problem. the fact that we can choose to ignore racism is white privilege.
if we don't point out and address racism, we're putting the POC in our community in the position of either needing to tolerate seeing it, or needing to address it themselves. generally, when people are told that something they said or did was racist, they either deny it and act like the person pointing it out is being too sensitive (which is, itself, racist), or go overboard with apologies and self-flagellation (which makes it about them). both of these reactions put even more burden on the person pointing out the racism.
if we want to make this community safer for POC, we have to actively try to do that. it is unfair to the POC in this community for us to sit back and expect them to do all of the work to make this community safer for themselves on their own.
we've all been raised in racist societies, so none of us are incapable of racism. (see @radiomogai's post on the subject (link) for more about this.) this means we will make mistakes along the way, and we have to accept that. we can't let the fear of not being perfect allies prevent us from trying at all.














