White People Think One Black Person's Success Proves Racism Is Over

[Ken Burch]

328. If you're secure in your own "non-racism" why does this thread bother you?

I'm white, and the OP doesn't bother me.

Yes, there are some of us (a minority of us, based on general white attitudes towards Obama and other politicians of color as shown in most polls) who try to move away(no white person is totally non-racist, it's just a question of trying to move past it within ourselves and to confront it in society or choosing not to do so)but this hasn't gone away as a problem.

And it is still the great "wedge issue" in American politics...it's still what's used, more than anything else, to get working-class whites to vote against their own economic interests in election after election after election. It's used to prevent the emergence of class unity among working people, the unity that must be prevented, at all costs, if the 1% are to maintain their stranglehold on the rest of us.

And there's no moral law that says a person of color OR a white person must address other issues in order to be allowed to talk about racism.