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In reply to the discussion: Dear White America: Its time to get the message [View all]theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Every person in this country is BORN into a white culture. Of course there are millions of folks of all stripes who fight racism but being born black in a white culture is something I could never understand, not really. I fight racism because it is my conscious decision to do so. The fact remains that I'm still stark naked white and that means from the instant I was born there were thousands of significant and some insignificant ways the world was open to me and yet denied to a child guilty of being born black in a white culture.
I wasn't at all offended by the OP. It was open and honest. Racism is such an interwoven part of our national fabric that we can become numb to the totality of it. To me, it is good to be reminded why we fight. Sometimes the message needs to be delivered in a shout, not polite admonitions.
I probably haven't explained myself very well here but that's all I'm worth this morning.