Okay... I do not agree on that at all and I saw you respond to that anon that we 'the whites' are all racist even if we want to or not. I have to say something about that because it trully bothers me that I actually am almost in tears. You actually are saying that if you have a murderer in your family you are also considered a murderer to the victims family. That makes no sense. Ancestry or actions of ancestors do not determine who you are as a person. Not ever.
no, thatās not what iām saying. what iām saying is that, as white people, we are raised in a society that teaches everyone that whiteness is the ideal and anything non-white is bad. it doesnāt matter if you grow up and reject this idea and think to yourself that all people are equal, because at some level, the ideas around you have affected you and your way of thinking.
sayingĀ āall white people are racistā isnāt sayingĀ āwhite people are inherently bad peopleā. itās sayingĀ āhey, as a white person i acknowledge that i benefit from the oppression of people of color. i contributeĀ to the oppression of people of color. often not intentionally, but because of blind spots due to my upbringing in a racist society.Ā for every person of color that gets denied a job because of their skin color or their āethnic soundingā last name, i and people like me get an extra chance at getting that job solely because we are whiteā. it means that as white people, we get to see ourselves on TV in a thousand different ways, and we can pick and choose which character we want to relate to because thereās so many options, but most of us never think twice about why there are so few options for people who arenāt white. it means that as white people, we donāt have to be afraid of cops, because we are raised to trust them. it means that as white people, we donāt know the pain of almost constantly being the only person of color in an otherwise all-white room.
thereās so much we donāt know because we are white and therefore weāll never ever know what those things are like. and that makes us racist, because we constantly ignore the pain and the struggles of people of color because we do not personally suffer from racism. again and again we ignore them, call their righteous cries for justiceĀ āriotsā andĀ ādramaā, because we canāt sympathize. and thatās racist. iām sorry if it makes you sad and uncomfortable, but thatās nowhere near how sad and uncomfortable actual racism makes people of color.