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Your brilliance is why we are silent! 
Thank you! 
I have said before many of the issues with racism (and other forms of bigotry) can be boiled down to "perspective." Too many white people, including liberals, but especially progressives and leftists, try to control the debate and argue from a white perspective, as opposed to listening to those actually affected by the bigotry. One can see it in arguments were definitions are squabbled over and how the white perspective is the default position, much like male, heterosexual, Christian (in this country), and able-bodied are in regards to other issues of bigotry. It doesn't mean those who are part of a majority group shouldn't be involved in the conversations or have opinions, but they should listen more as opposed to dictating the script. Another glaring example is when something racist is said and it is the responsibility of POC to "correct" the behavior. The problem is too often it really should be the responsibility of the majority group to correct the other majority. Keep in mind, that approach can have problems too, especially if the person correcting the behavior isn't quite up to snuff. Here is a recent example:
Well are blacks responsible for their actions? We all know that there is injustice in the system but that being said the other side of the coin is that no one is forcing black fathers to abandon their children and that is a major problem..
The entire post was hidden by a vote of 6-1. The dissenting vote?(This poster) is dead wrong, but please show him that with your words, and not by stopping him from posting. He didn't make a particular personal attack, and although his thinking may be rooted in racism, his post is not a clear example of that. Voting to keep this one.
While the juror clearly acknowledges the problem, instead of voting to remove the post, it comes down to because it wasn't a "personal attack" it wasn't worthy of a hide, despite the fact personal attacks aren't the only reason posts are and should be hidden. I also posit that statement was a personal attack. It wasn't against a single person, but against an entire subset, in this case, black fathers and they were chosen because they are BLACK.
One other problem I see is the paternalistic racism (bigotry) which is more often employed by those on our side of the political spectrum. (White person) "Oh, now that's not really racism!" (White person) "That person didn't make a racist comment; they are strong progressive person." (White person) "You are just being overly sensitive (left version of "you're playing the race card."." It is this very condescending attitude of majority persons who, again, are setting the narrative because "they know better."
I am not black, never have been, never will be. I can understand many issues which face AA folk, sometimes deeply understand, but the reality is, I will never FULLY understand because it isn't part of my story. Just as a man will never fully understand what it is to be a woman, or a straight person can fully understand what it is to be gay. While it is true some can have mountains of and great depths of empathy, sometimes, we (speaking as a white person) have to understand we have limitations in this regard. When we see the police in the rear view, most of us are hoping/thinking "was I speeding? are my tags up-to-date?", not "oh shit! OK, remain calm, keep your hands where they can see them, and please G-d, if this goes sideways, watch after my family!"
One last thing I would like to say is we should be open to listening to the narratives of other minorities and watch for the same behaviors we are commenting on in this thread. Are we doing to them what some white people do to POC?
