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In reply to the discussion: Silence Makes White People Racist [View all]mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)do you think the white bankers knew what they were doing when they redlined neighborhoods?
do you think the white school boards knew what they were doing when they drew district boundries?
do you think employers know what they are doing when they discriminate in hiring?
Everyone at the bank, in the school districts and in human resources knows what's going on and this is just a tiny part of the daily persistent and historic racism in America, and too many white people are silent.
The killing of African Americans because of being black in any given situation is a result of a mistrust born of racism that's so deep and so ingrained, white people miss it. I'm still amazed at people like one on this thread who defends the jury in the Zimmerman case. The jury took the opportunity to give the benefit of the doubt, of which there was none, to the white guy, something almost never given to the black guy. That is racism.