Anybody Can Be Racist

[HiPointDem]

13. "It's profoundly important to be able to distinguish between personal prejudices and

systemic legal discrimination."

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One of the most disappointing things about what remains of the civil rights coalition is the extent to which it's turned into an exercise in attacking individual "racists" and focusing on speech to the exclusion of the effects of policy decisions with much larger repercussions.

Like how black teachers and public workers are hardest hit by the attacks on public workers. Like how black auto workers took the earliest and hardest hits in the attacks on the auto industry.

To my mind, angles with much more important ramifications (& real ties to the larger struggle of labor generally, ties that unite rather than separate) than focusing on how joe blow is a "racist".

"a racist system can force people who are not either racist or prejudiced into racist or prejudiced behavior. How do we talk about that?"

we don't talk about that. most people barely recognize it.

or the same phenomenon with regard to class.