White people don't want to talk about it

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276. I'm white, I'll talk about it.

But not in the African American group where they blocked me. I'm a man and I'll talk about feminism, but not in the History of Feminism group where they blocked me.

But I digress. This is General Discussion.

I'm a white man from a liberal household in the Deep South. I came through the Mobile, Alabama public school system in the 1970s. My class was one of the earliest integrated classes in Mobile. I've seen racism from almost every possible angle.

I've seen it from the inside, when white people feel free to share their true feelings. I was in the home of a white high school principle, downstairs after dinner, when it was just the men. The high school principle felt comfortable to share his feelings about black people. I'm not much shocked by anything anymore, but the ugliness and intensity of his racism was shocking. By the way, this wasn't the 1970's, this was the 2000s in Middle Tennessee.

Racism is alive and well. It didn't die after 1964. It just went underground a little.