When whites just don't get it, part 5

[nomorenomore08]

25. Look, I *am* a white guy, and I don't like negative broadbrushing any more than anyone else does.

But the problem with saying "some" is that every white person reading the statement then assumes it doesn't include them, and that therefore they have no responsibility to do something (however small or seemingly insignificant) about the problem. When in reality, each of us (especially as a self-identified liberal/progressive) has the obligation to try and make things better.

I understand being bothered by generalizations about "white people." I often am myself. But it's also us white people who need to take a hard look at things and actually try to do something about the problem of ingrained racism. People of color can't do it all by themselves - otherwise they would have already.