ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST. you cannot decide whether or not you are, you can actively unlearn it, but there are still inherent biases and privileges that you have that contribute to and maintain the structure of racism.
you are can be an active racist- Klan Member/Trump supporter.

you can be a passive racist- not an active racist but not unlearning or acknowledging your racist tendencies and privileges.

or you can be unlearning racism, but still participating in it by being white in America.
there are white people in this movement who i’ve tried to coddle and be like “you’re different.” and they’ve straight up said “no i’m not. i can walk away from this movement tomorrow and go back to a normal life, so i’m not different.”
my “protest mom” — an extremely pro-black white woman (who doesn’t appropriate our culture or fetishize us) told me about how someone was telling her a story about an aggressive man at a bar and how she immediately visualized him as black. mind you she shows up to EVERY PROTEST.
like literally has taken charges for us, pushed police off of us and everything: and she STILL has INHERENTLY RACIST BIASES AND TENDENCIES that she’s unlearning by participating in the fight for black liberation but that are very much still prominent and manifesting...
and if being called racist is enough to make you not feel welcome and want to leave a movement, you are racist as fuck.

because any “ally” or “accomplice” knows their place in racism, their privilege, and their power and that’s why they join the fight.
and the case by case experiences you’ve had with white people paying your bills or looking out for you or even your friends parents, do not address the overarching system of racism that is promulgated.

there was white people here in GA who loved me but not all Black ppl
only white peoples respond to accusations of racism with even stauncher racism lmao: y’all are too pathetic to argue with.
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