I recently found out that a visitor to my home considers me a racist ...

[xfundy]

4. She may have been affected by the RW noise machine.

It's perfectly understandable that an image of a god would reflect the image of the person who displays it, as 'god' is said to have made man "in his image."

It's also understandable that someone who reads and appreciates art would be drawn to authors and artists who understand his perspective. Sometimes I wish we were all nicely tanned and indistinguishable from each other so this kind of bullshit would die out, but being able to judge others by their melanin is so valuable to those who profit from dividing us.

One of my favorite authors is James Baldwin, and I have all his books; I wonder how that child would judge my reading collection. I suspect she'd be fine with it, since most of my books are by 'white' people (as well as Italians and Jews, who weren't considered "white" until fairly recently).