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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yeah, yeah, I've read the research from Banaji and other similar researchers too.  No doubt every person's perceptions are colored by race, and that affects the structure of our society in many ways.  But to simply level the accusation of "racist" at everyone repeatedly means the term has no power or useful meaning.

The original question posed (by me among others) was why more white families don't attend Banneker.  Answering that question with the blanket statement of "racism" and accusing people who don't know everything about Banneker's policies of being racist is a poor use of the term.[/quote]

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