The inadequacy of a "good heart"

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13. I find the phrase "people like us" to be offensive

it accepts the racist point of view that the only thing that matters is skin color.

Like the only thing I am is white. Or maybe that is just the most important thing about me - according to this point of view. A point of view that says the content of my character does not matter, only the color of my skin. Or perhaps my gender too. That I am somehow exactly like every other white male in this country because we all fit into the pigeonhole of white male.

Even Obama's statement "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" is ridiculous and superficial. Like all black males look alike. Like my mom could say "If I had a son, he would look like Matt Damon"

Sorry mom, I look more like Steve Nash. I don't think either of us are gonna be mistaken for Matt Damon any time soon. True, we are even less likely to be mistaken for Hallie Berry. But Hallie Berry has lots of fans who do not look like her. I would have far more concern for her than I would for somebody supposedly "like us" white males like Mitt Romney or George W. Bush or Paul Ryan.

And many good hearted people are the same way.