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

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237. Everyone has some kind of inherent discrimination toward someone or something

or somewhere. I think the horse left the barn a long time ago on this one...how can we be sure all us white people are not inherently racist? We've never had to deal with a situation that placed us in the minority in this country. Most of that list I think is spot on...I've seen it first hand here on DU. Mention White Privilege and get ready for a fight!

White Privilege like Rape Culture very much does exist in this country. I can explain White Privilege to anyone that wants to understand by example. My cousin is very racist and mocks me when I talk about progressive issues. He asked me to show him White Privilege, so I slapped him. Before he could get really mad, I explained to him that is how the justice system in America works. If he was black, it would have been a seat in the electric chair or a noose around a neck. Because he was born white, a slap is all he gets. That is the most pain he will feel from society. For a black person, that pain is a thousand to a millions times worse than a mere slap. And that is from the people that supposedly are for equal justice under the law.

He asked me to prove it further, so I showed him an article about a young man named George Stinney. Tried, convicted and executed all based on circumstantial evidence. All at the age of of 14. Then there is the case of a husband wife serial killer team that murdered many women in Canada. While he is rotting in prison, she was released and is roaming at large somewhere in the world. There was enough evidence to put here away forever.

There is no justice for minorities in a society controlled by a white patriarchy. There barely seems to be any for women. Now imagine being a black women in a society controlled by white men...and has been forever.

I have to say that I do expect minorities to hold a preconceived notion about white people, based on our history toward other groups and races. It seems to indicate that they pay attention to history.

America is the land of immigrants, yet for some groups that meant being forced on a boat at gun point and dying from some festering infection in a galley hold. America is the land of immigrants, unless you were already here and we all know what the white man did to the native man and women.

So is it possible for us (white folk) not to be racist? Hard to say when we've never had any kind of challenge to our complete control over society.