Sentimentalizing race relations (making it all or chiefly about “getting to know each other”, forming friendships with different races or dating/fucking as many different colored people as possible (because that worked out so well for the Native Americans and Black slaves)) as a one-on-one endeavor while paying absolutely no attention to systems and structures that keep racism embedded in American society and culture is a great derailing and diversionary tactic because it gives people the impression that they’re actually making a difference (even as they reproduce and reify racist structures, realities and hierarchies within these relationships) while the status quo is maintained.
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witchsistah: Sentimentalizing race relations (making it all or chiefly about “getting to know each...
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