Is there anyway now that we can be considered not racist?

[Spider Jerusalem]

149. What does that even mean?

"It's mostly white people on this thread" means, what? You don't really have to worry about the concerns of people of colour, or they're irrelevant? White people don't have any obligation to examine their prejudices and try to understand the perspectives of other people as long as they're a majority? Your comment about "the usual suspects" is, well. Pretty creepy and possibly unintentionally revelatory of your own attitudes. Who are "the usual suspects"? People who are conscious of racism? Are white people supposed to ignore it since it doesn't affect them? That's kind of like saying "men should just ignore misogyny and feminism since it's not their problem", or "straight people shouldn't pay attention to LGBT issues". I don't really know about you, but I think that if one considers oneself to be a "liberal" then actually understanding the perspectives and experiences of other people in our coalition and where they're coming from and how we can get to where we want to go together is a good thing; we're all Americans, and I'd hope we don't just care about building a better country for straight white men.