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I haven't given much thought to black people. I always just figured they were like everyone else, so I took them - like everyone else - as I found them, and assumed that's what normal people did.
Turns out that makes me a racist. Apparently I'm supposed to think of them differently, or recognize their unique experience, or understand that my view is irretrievably tainted by my white privilege, or some other damn thing I don't understand.
A few years back the #metoo idiocy got so far out of hand that I realized it was a bad idea to ever be alone with a woman to whom I am not related. I'm starting to feel like the same may now be true of black people. This doesn't seem like progress.
Turns out that makes me a racist. Apparently I'm supposed to think of them differently, or recognize their unique experience, or understand that my view is irretrievably tainted by my white privilege, or some other damn thing I don't understand.
A few years back the #metoo idiocy got so far out of hand that I realized it was a bad idea to ever be alone with a woman to whom I am not related. I'm starting to feel like the same may now be true of black people. This doesn't seem like progress.
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