You might be a racist if...

[sarah FAILIN]

Anyone want to play a game?

I'm going to start off the list and you guys can add to it if you want
No, it's not really a game but I thought it would be a good group post to bring us together and sort of a tension reliever. Mine are things I've heard people that I know actually say btw.

You might be a racist if...
You ever started a sentence with "There are some good blacks...
You call people 'the blacks".
You deny that you are a racist because you voted for Obama.
You say Trump won because the white man is tired of getting the short end of the stick.
Your name is Trump.

Anyone else?

[dflprincess]

1. "I don't usually think this way, but...."

[sarah FAILIN]

2. Good one

[Initech]

3. You might be a racist if you watch Fox News.

You might be a racist if you have a "Blue Lives Matter" bumper sticker on your car.

You might be a racist if you have destroyed any NFL related merchandise in the last year.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. ...

[Takket]

4. you support drumpf

[Poiuyt]

5. You say, "Some of my best friends are black."

"I even had dinner with one once."

[Devil Child]

6. ...you have a fondness for tiki torches and white polo shirts

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. You say "I don't mean all (insert racial group)."

<OPE>

[MaryMagdaline]

8. You say "I don't see color"

[GaYellowDawg]

10. In my case...

Mea culpa.

I might (no might about it, actually, I would) be a racist if I said the things, thought the things, or told the jokes I have in the past. I realize that I'm not really in a position to grade whether I'm a racist now. But I do my best to listen to others, and be open to change. So I guess I would say...

You might be a racist if you don't listen and refuse to change.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. This is one of the most honest things I've seen on this site.

Many would do well to read this post and consider it for themselves. Thank you for sharing so honestly.

[GaYellowDawg]

16. No, thank you.

It's a kindness of you to say that. I can say the same things about myself with respect to sexism, too.

I wish I had the same perspective 30 years ago that I have now. And if I live another 30, I'll probably say the same thing then.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. .

[GaYellowDawg]

18. :-)

[Soxfan58]

27. I'm with you Dawg

I learned racism from my parents, I learned tolerance from my kids

[marble falls]

11. If you need to look at a "You might be a racist if ...." post to find out if you're a racist.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. You grew up white in America.

[Beartracks]

19. You might be a racist if you grew up white in America??

Wtf?

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

28. America is built on white supremacy and many of its institutions are designed to uphold that

hegemony. Growing up white means you benefit from at least some of those institutions and without deep discussions and understandings of those institutions, people will unconsciously replicate the racist systems they benefit from. Increasingly, it's not enough to be "not racist." That does nothing to dismantle the racist systems the U.S. is built on. Anti-racism is required, and it starts in one's own mind and heart with honest questions and answers.

[TheSmarterDog]

25. Sadly, I think you could take "white" out of that sentence and it would still be true.

[malchickiwick]

13. You've ever begun a sentence, "I'm not a racist, but..."

Whatever is about to be said is racist 99.999999999999999999 percent of the time.

[Initech]

15. ...

[Shemp Howard]

20. Consider a shooting. A white cop shoots a black person.

A white cop shoots a black person. You might be a racist if your first response is: "The black person probably deserved it."

And you might be a racist if your first response is: "The white cop is a murderer."

The proper first response is: "What happened?"

[jes06c]

21. Here goes

"But you're one of the good ones."

"Why do we have to talk about slavery/lynching/Jim Crow/segregation? That's ancient history!"

"But the Africans were the ones selling their own people into slavery!"

"Why can't we have a white history month?"

"Where are you REALLY from?"

"Why do you always bring up race? You're the REAL racist!"

[Shemp Howard]

22. "Why can't we have a white history month?"

That complaint in particular always bothered me. Time is set aside for the Irish (St. Patrick's Day). And where I live there seems to be an Italian festival every other week. But set aside time for African Americans, and some people get all upset.

[jes06c]

23. I use my daughter as an example

When she was a baby, she had an iron deficiency, so the doctor proscribed an iron supplement for her. Now if your baby isn't iron deficient, then the doctor won't proscribe that supplement. That's not discrimination, that doesn't mean the doctor favors my baby over yours. It just means that your baby doesn't need the supplement. By the way, the fact that your baby isn't iron deficient is a GOOD thing!

So when racists complain about Black History month, I try to explain that it's intended to be a remedy to decades of neglecting African American history in our schools. This was never a problem with white history, because it's pretty hard to overlook white history when white people make up the majority.

[Croney]

24. You might be a racist if you stand in front of a black man

who is holding a Blacks for Trump sign while you're holding a white supremacy rally.

[TheSmarterDog]

26. If you're offended by an oppressed person's reasonable reaction to being oppressed...

[LeftishBrit]

29. You begin sentences with 'I'm not racist BUT...'