Dear Fellow White people When you are okay with racism "Ah that's just Great Aunt Millicent, pay her no mind" *laughs along with racist joke to not be the woke killjoy* etc You're racist. The racist bones in your body are the spine in which you lack. - ThreadSky

trance.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Dear Fellow White people

When you are okay with racism

"Ah that's just Great Aunt Millicent, pay her no mind"
*laughs along with racist joke to not be the woke killjoy*
etc

You're racist.

The racist bones in your body are the spine in which you lack.

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trance.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm going to use a highly personal example here.

My favorite person in the world as a child, even as an adult, was my Grandfather. We had a very special connection, and that was a thing I desperately needed as a child.

I reacted to him like small children do with Elmo. When we moved out of Philly

trance.bsky.social•4 days ago

I literally packed a full ass suitcase, multiple times a week, and would scream to call him to come get me at 4/5 years old. Until we moved back (unrelated to my tantrums).

ANYHOO.

He was a racist.

And even from the time I was little, I would lose my shit about it.

trance.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe it was Sesame Street exposure, idk, but I knew racist was wrong, and worse that wrong, it was mean, stupid, cruel and evil.

As a smol child I knew this.

And I'd lose my shit, get laughed at or worse punished and would leave the room.

trance.bsky.social•4 days ago

With the only person I felt was my everything in this world. The man who drove through a goddamned blizzard to get me from school so I wouldn't be trapped. A fucking white out, and here's my Grandpop

I'd hear the nword and start screaming, and end up running out in tears.

So yeah, don't upset

trance.bsky.social•4 days ago

Great Aunt soandso or racist cousin McShitface ...c'mon.

I get it if you can't speak up for fear of reprisal. Bread has to hit the table. You don't pick a fight with a bigger group when you're alone. I'm not talking about that shit.

I'm talking about ALL THE REST.

And get off the bullshit

tomgj.bsky.social•4 days ago

My father was racist.

Anyway, I was more upset when a small Banksia I'd planted died than when he did.

brusowrites.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think Sesame Street def showed us how happy a diverse populace could interact. As a kiddo I watched my parents be the first ones inviting new neighbors over & a number of times they were of a race other than white. I feel lucky to have grown up with those influences.

brusowrites.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was also the high school guy who had no fear calling out racism. I didn’t play football, but I knew there were big guys, both black n white, who had my back cause I had theirs

bakingyoda.bsky.social•4 days ago

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

blazewarriorwolf.bsky.social•4 days ago

Racism is never acceptable on any level. Nor is any other kind of bigotry. I had a relative of mine state something casually anti-immigrant to me back in November online. I blocked her 3 days later. I have yet to tell her our social relationship is through irl but I will make sure to do so. She is

blazewarriorwolf.bsky.social•4 days ago

a shameless MAGA. Shameless. People like her have no room in my heart anymore. Maybe by ousting them completely from my life, they will begin to slowly fixing their hearts.

bioalex.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think that we white people need to understand (& this is NOT to excuse) that we are all racist to some degree. It is ingrained into us by everything about our society.

So, it is never sufficient to be "not racist", we have to be actively anti-racist in our attitudes & actions to overcome racism.

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