[Glice]

In defence of suchfriends, this is a thread full of white people washing their hands of a systematic problem to which they're largely blind.

An example: 2 white men and a black man walks into a bar; one is turned away. Any mention that it might've been racially motivated (which is moot) by the black person is perceived as 'chip on the shoulder'. And this sort of stuff happens always. So there's two problems: first is the possibility (which I haven't followed at all) that a white person shot a black person on the grounds that he was black; the second problem is that a lot of white people will immediately, and very shrilly say 'I'm not racist' because racism is something that happened in the past and could not possibly continue to be a problem. So the whys and wheretofores of the possibility that it might be racially motivated murder (to repeat, I've not followed the case) are clouded by the intense desire for white people to pretend there doesn't continue to be (very euphemistically speaking) 'a complex relationship' between white society and black.

That racism doesn't appear solely in a KKK hood appears to mislead white people into thinking that this isn't an incredibly severe problem.

I'll go further and say that I've recently realised that the sincere claim to 'not being racist' by white people very often limits the ability of black people to talk about their emotions.

blah blah bell hooks blah blah Audre Lorde blah blah