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Originally Posted by Samcro84
Maybe I don't get it. If my preference is not to see black female providers that makes me racist? When you have not asked why just prefer to judge. Not sure why somebody can be so judgemental to think or think they know that because of my upbringing I am racist. Maybe they should take a look at their bigotry.
Sam
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White people who grow up in America, where white culture and whiteness are the accepted mainstream values/norms have privilege which exists because of racism.
Racism = race prejudice + institutional power; a system of oppression maintained by institutions and cultural "norms" that exploit, control, and oppress people of color groups in order to maintain a position of social and material supremacy and privilege for white people (particularly the powerful and wealthy elite).
It's never too late to unlearn prejudice but first we have to acknowledge that it exists.
Privilege is blinding and ignorance is bliss. You get to see America as accepting because you, as a white man, benefit from the most privilege.
I know nothing about you (except that you have been very sweet to talk to at socials etc) or your life and do not assume shit has always been easy for you or that you haven't worked hard for the things you have. That's not what I'm saying. And I'm not making personal judgements about you as an individual. Really all I know about you is that you are a white man (or at least you pass as one). I'm not attacking you. I'm trying to point out that those of us who are white have unearned advantages as a result of our whiteness.
Being conscious of my whiteness (and where it places me in a racist system) means I claim responsibility for working to dismantle both my own learned racism and the racism that operates in society and institutions (in an anti-racist way).