Stop pretending racism is confined to Florida

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38. stop pretending "anything" about racism

It's not confined geographically. It's not one-way. It doesn't explain everything that anyone does that someone doesn't like.

There's a lot of pretending on both (all?) sides.

"racism" and "racist" are used to stop lots of discussions where nobody has brought up race but "we all know the true intent". Actually we don't all know the true intent and that use stops those discussions while at the same time diminishing the value of charges of "racism". The person who's shut down for an honest non-race-based opinion on one topic is not likely to participate in the next discussion on how to fix racism. He/she's already seen personally how "racism" is not as bad as it's made out to be. Even if "not as bad" is only by one person in one discussion that one person knows it to be the case (and arguing that they have a subconscious racist attitude that they aren't aware of won't usually change their mind so that's probably not a useful approach to ending racism).

Some people dislike Obama's economic policy or gitmo policy or drug policy or whatever because they dislike the policy, not because they dislike having a black man as president.

Unequal justice is worse for blacks (I'm white and don't have experience but I'll accept that.) But it also applies to ANY poor person vs a wealthy person doing the same thing or charged with the same crime. Why all the focus on the racial component rather than trying to level the field for everyone?

My wife grew up on food stamps and section 8 housing (she's white). It's not a single-race issue. But the loudest attacks when someone tries to cut those programs is often about how they are racist not about what a society should do for anyone in need.