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In reply to the discussion: Tim Wise: Race-Talk is a Language White Folks Need to Learn [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)doesn't bring about "real change."
And no ... Black people spending decades struggling mightily to find just the right way to talk to overly-sensitive and/or close-minded white people who nevertheless keep coming up with ridiculous excuses to ignore and even blame us is not "just as systemic as the assumptions made by law enforcement" in a racist system that targets, subjugates, and murders black people who don't talk to or comply with them the right way.
But the mindset of some white folk that leads them to insist that it's somehow OUR fault that "real change" hasn't yet occurred because our fight against racism hurts their feelings and instruct us to go back and find a more acceptable and less uncomfortable (for them) way to talk about it if we want them to take our struggles seriously, is a critical element that the racist system relies on to maintain itself.