I keep hearing "We could work together if Black people would stop focusing on racism" This is silly. Racism is WHY we don't work together
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Racism. Not racists. Calling out racism where it shows up is critical. Letting casual racism slide is how we got primetime Nazishttps://twitter.com/3bricksshy/status/903127266023976960 …
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Racism is WHY white people don't take the observations of Black people about our society's ills seriously.
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Racism is WHY White people are fundamentally uncomfortable with black spaces and insist on white spaces as "safe"
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Racism is WHY white people do not see initiatives and solutions posed by Black people as sophisticated or as thoughtful as white ones.
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Racism is WHY White people presume that they should be the people to steer the direction of this nation by right.
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Racism is WHY well meaning white people can say "Black people, put aside your complaints and work with us because WE are hurting now"
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Racism is WHY conversation about societal problems can only happen within the bounds of what white people consider fair critique.
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Racism is WHY white people can feel compelled to march on fascism against white people but write off state brutality as a Black problem
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Racism is at the heart of the inability of White people to grasp that our fates are intertwined and how white ignorance of this hurts us all
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Racism is WHY average white people routinely believe themselves more knowledgeable about society than degree-holding Black social scholars.
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Racism is WHY white people believe that action benefitting white people is for the "greater good" while all else is "identity politics"
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Racism is WHY white people are more comfortable and ready to stand behind white leaders while chafing at the idea of following Black leaders
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Racism is WHY white people upon seeing Black tragedy say "OMG! I had no idea this was happening!" when Black people had said so for decades
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Racism is WHY Klan members occupying high positions in police departments and brazen, organized Nazis are surprising to white people.
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Racism is WHY white people can thoughtlessly inform Black people that everyone just loving everyone is better than addressing racism.
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Racism is WHY white people frequently demand immunity from charges of racism in order to agree to fight racism.
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Racism is WHY American history is core curriculum and Black American history, somehow separate, is an elective white people don't need.
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Racism is WHY white people are not taught to take critical lessons from the events only taught in elective Black History or Af-Am studies.
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Racism is WHY white people feel that addressing and combating racism is an optional favor they can bestow on Black people.
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Racism is WHY white people who ask Black people to set down their grievances "for now" had no intention of addressing them before or after.
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