Can you think of any circumstances under which people like this would be happy? I can think of only one, and it begins with the letter “R.”

Via Guardian:

… And yet, this country continues to mobilize around incidents of racist behavior and not against systemic racism, pushing public statements filled with shock and lip service to “diversity”, individual expulsions and university-wide disassociation. But naming, shaming and shunning individual racists – if it has any deterrent effect on other would-be racists at all, which seems increasingly doubtful in 2015 – doesn’t solve the systemic racism faced by black people in employment, in housing, in university admissions, in interactions with the judicial system and for the love of God, in the value of life.

All your heartfelt statements in the world about how individual racists are bad people doesn’t fix a system that continues to disprivilege people of color – but it does, though, make white people feel like they “did something” about racism. I’m not impressed. […]

I don’t want another explanation that one white person’s racist, privileged behavior doesn’t reflect the thoughts and actions of all white people. It was never all black people, either, but black people have always been treated as if it were (and still are).

White people need to start actually seeing us and learning who we are, because we know a lot about you all. Recognize the histories we carry, the individual complexities we cultivate, and the culture-wide stampeded spirit we contain. Disabuse yourself of the notion that calling out a white person for racist behavior makes you less culpable or more enlightened, and instead reflect on why you don’t relate first to the black people being denigrated.