If you grow up in the US, it’s pretty hard not to be racist because the entire culture and history is steeped in racism.
It’s taken willful self-reflection to recognize some things I say or do that are implicitly racist. If we just went about chanting, “I’m not racist,” we’d never be able to grow and improve.
Any generation is susceptible to becoming a racist.
Indeed it’s unavoidable, but the racist/non-racist ratio is the important data here.
If you grow up in the US, it’s pretty hard not to be racist because the entire culture and history is steeped in racism.
It’s taken willful self-reflection to recognize some things I say or do that are implicitly racist. If we just went about chanting, “I’m not racist,” we’d never be able to grow and improve.