| Please don't attempt to dilute the focus of this thread by pointing out other instances of American ignorance. I don't deny they exist, but they're not the topic of this thread. Racism exists primarily because of the "Oh well, we're all a bit racist, what can we do about it" attitude. By excusing ignorance we become a party to it.
The reason more White people don't protest White privilege is that we White folk benefit from it. Who wants to bite the hand that feeds them? By not protesting it, we tacitly allow the fruit of that attitude, racism. There's no excuse in this century and in this country to have such inequality between the races. |