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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP might not be saying "every single white person is racist" but I will. There is no way to grow up in the United State of America - with the kind of racial history we have baked into the cake of our society  and not be racist.  Period.  I am white, have a black spouse and black children and I am racist.  If I don't admit that to myself I will stop examining my bias and growing as a person.  [/quote]
I appreciate your underlying point, but I think your definition of "racist" is so overbroad as to render the term meaningless.[/quote]

(I'm not the person who wrote the first comment, but...) I think that it is only by using this person's definition of racism that we can actually see the many ways structural racism permeates our schools/neighborhoods/etc, and in doing so, try to do better.

If you are a white person uncomfortable with the idea of being racist, I'd suggest some deep reflection. We all are - overt, covert, unintentional, intentional. We are.[/quote]

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