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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, as a black person, I have just accepted that racism is a real thing and that there is a huge, huge effort by many white people to deny its existence. So, I see the truth in things. I see it. I accept that it's not a fair playing field. I accept that professionally I will struggle and have struggled in ways my white coworkers simply never will. I accept the study that demonstrates big law partners rate the writing of black attorneys more harshly than white attorneys. I accept things will never really change because most white people are fine with the ways things are. I accept that many white people refuse to admit that the past 50-75 years in this country is a minimal amount of time compared to the hundreds of years of horror black people have suffered through. I accept that wealth is probably unequal due to discriminatory hiring, lending, housing that benefited white people's grand parents and parents. I accept it all. Then I get up, send my children to the best school we could find, go to work and do good work, go home, work with my children and drive them to classes and sports and activities. I make healthy food. I meditate. I practice self-care. I do all of the things to thrive. And I keep the rest out of my mind. Because I know it's there and I know there is no strong incentive to change things (if anything there is an incentive to deny, ignore and deflect). I can't give it any more power or influence in my life. I can't change it. I refuse to engage it. It's not my doing or responsibility. And the premise that black people or minorities should speak to racism, own racism, fix racism is a farce. [b]This is a white people's problem that many of them have little interest in fixing. [/b] I choose to thrive. I choose to live. [/quote] White person here. PP, you are absolutely right. My hope is that as more and more white people realize this, we will actually stop tolerating racism overt or systemic enough to change our culture.[/quote] Another black PP but this is on point. I completely agree with the first PP. It's crazy that you PP are one of the few white people who responded. It kind of proved her point, though. But you keep on. [/quote]
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