It's amazing how little we (in the US, at DU, whatever) actually fully communicate about racism

[scarletwoman]

22. Oh, I think it's clear that it IS growing!

They get that the white supremacist system is being seriously challenged, and the defenses are going up.

We white folks have been quite comfortable with things as they have been - it's incredibly inconvenient to be confronted with demands for change. So uncomfortable, in fact, that we're manning the barricades to protect our privilege.

I mean, why would you colored folks be questioning us nice white liberals? Haven't we always said that we support your civil rights? Didn't a whole bunch of us march with MLK?

/sarcasm

Seriously, it's really disturbing how ugly it's getting. There was something I read many years back - and I wish to hell I could find it again and cite it properly - but the jist of it was this: We can never forgive those whom we have wronged, because that would mean admitting that we wronged them. So, instead we hate and revile them, in order to justify the wrong we did to them in the first place.