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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a suggestion: stop brainwashing your kids. This ridiculous intersectional anti-racist drivel might make you feel virtuous but all it does is make people think more about race--which is the last thing we need.[/quote]

There are definitely people who are obsessed with race.  Just let people be people![/quote]

One more time for the folks in the back.... THIS IS ONLY AN OPTION FOR WHITE PEOPLE!!!! You can't just "be people" as a black person or native American- that's what people see about you first. It affects your life. People being "colorblind" and NOT thinking or talking about race for decades is what got us here. To a boiling point, to a reckoning. Its needed.

And look, I don't even blame white parents in the 70s and 80s for teaching their kids that all people are just people, we should not see color, etc. They were reacting to watching the horrors of the Civil Rights movement in the 60s when they were just kids themselves. My own parents remember the news from when they were 7,8,9,10 years old and where the nice white people who were going to do better for their kids. And in many ways they did. But progress is not linear. As you get more information (like how this actually works for black folks, perception of what color blind means in practice) you adapt, you know better so you do better. So no, its not better to "not think about race" in order to make racism in our institutions go away.

What in the history of humanity has gone away just because you ignore it?[/quote]

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