If you grow up in the US, it’s pretty hard not to be racist because the entire culture and history is steeped in racism.
It’s taken willful self-reflection to recognize some things I say or do that are implicitly racist. If we just went about chanting, “I’m not racist,” we’d never be able to grow and improve.
Any generation is susceptible to becoming a racist.
If you grow up in the US, it’s pretty hard not to be racist because the entire culture and history is steeped in racism.
It’s taken willful self-reflection to recognize some things I say or do that are implicitly racist. If we just went about chanting, “I’m not racist,” we’d never be able to grow and improve.
Indeed it’s unavoidable, but the racist/non-racist ratio is the important data here.