The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate

[RainDog]

64. America is a racist, sexist, classist culture.

Most of us want to overcome that history, but that's what's there.

Racism is the most insidious problem.

I don't make light of racism, but I think finding commonalities, such as issues of class, are ways we can work to overcome that history, simply because of the numbers of people who can find a group identity that way stretches across different prejudices.

Someone I know, whose young daughter is bi-racial, just had her tell him she wants to look like him, because he's white. She's already getting the cultural clues even as a small kid. Another guy I know has an older biracial daughter, and when she was a teenager she told him she hated him because he made her look black. When he told me that, I could see the pain.

Ever since the end of legal slavery, the justice system has been set up to imprison black men whenever it can. This was evident in the south with men forced onto chain gangs by greedy fucks who got charges filed against them for free labor. Slavery by Another Name, available on PBS (and I've linked to it here before) tells about more than one of those white men who did this, with the willing cooperation of law enforcement.

The reality is the wealth of the western world was built on the backs of slaves. The entire western world.

That's what no one wants to admit.