Sometimes white people should just not talk about blackness or the black experience. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/hillary-clinton-democatic-primary-sanders-netroots …
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so I go off to his page seeking more wisdom and encounter a massive misunderstanding of the experience of racism.
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the enormous work of convincing one group of humans that another group of humans are not, in fact, humans, may be a tactic of The Rich.
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But when you make a deal with the devil, it is the devil and not the deal that rules.
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It is not merely conscious racial animus, it is the subconcious bias that turns Mike Brown into Hulk Hogan in the white imagination.
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It is the lurking suspicion that one is in some way fundamentally different-and-less than one's white counterparts.
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It is the hood's system of justice, with its enormous cost in human lives, nevertheless more trustworthy than the American justice system.
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Or, to be a socialist about it, to argue that racism is "rooted in economic inequality" is to recognize that Oprah notwithstanding...
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Blackness continues to operate as a class unto itself, black skin as an unchangeable class marker.
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Anyway, ugh, we've been putting in this work with white liberals for generations, and now we're expected to do it again with socialists?
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