...you can not win. Everything must be viewed through race and power dynamics. Group identity, not individual agency or beliefs, rule. A common example:
You own a small tailor shop where you need to personally service each customer. Two men walk in, one black one white, at the same time. You choose to help the white man first. That of course means that you see blacks as second class citizens. If you choose the black man first, that means you don't trust the black man to wander through the store while helping the white guy. Novel explanations of such racist tendencies can be invented for nearly every situation. It is devised so you can't win, the white owner is racist no matter his choice. And so are you...
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/87913...nd-anti-racism
You own a small tailor shop where you need to personally service each customer. Two men walk in, one black one white, at the same time. You choose to help the white man first. That of course means that you see blacks as second class citizens. If you choose the black man first, that means you don't trust the black man to wander through the store while helping the white guy. Novel explanations of such racist tendencies can be invented for nearly every situation. It is devised so you can't win, the white owner is racist no matter his choice. And so are you...
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/87913...nd-anti-racism
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