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Yes Virginia, Even Good People are Racists | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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When someone who's in a minority is talking about a group of people expressing collectively racist action, they're often seeing the (probably) unconscious expression of structural racism. We live in a racist society, and without intentional effort to the contrary, members of racist societies tend to replicate the social structures of society at large. A member of that group can decide to feel personally attacked, or they can stop and consider whether or not it applies to them, and whether or not they can proactively try to address the situation.

This is not the same as someone telling you, you personally, that you've said or done something racist. If that's the case, then reactive denial is definitely not your best, first bet.

Yet consider, as I wrote the other day, that even after years of studying the issues and educating myself, have sexist attitudes. I'd consider myself a strongly feminist woman, but I see in myself sometimes attitudes that are dismissive of other women on judgmental foundations that are purely sexist stereotypes, or putting up with behavior in men that originates solely in the dominant culture's message that they have more latitude to act as they please. It's the inevitable result of having been raised in a sexist culture. I can't help it, I can only keep trying to teach myself to act right.

How much of a stretch is it to deduce that I probably have racist attitudes that I don't know about? Even if I'd rather not. Even if it repulses me. Even if the very idea of it makes me furious. And it doesn't make it better if every time I find myself manifesting an atrocious attitude, and decide to act better than that, I act like I should get a cookie or a pat on the head.

Because my racist and sexist attitudes are marks of my own opression. They're the ways in which I've been mentally and emotionally crippled by my society so that instead of working with my fellow citizens for us to all have a better world, I end up at odds with them. And people like the Bush and Cheney clans laugh at us all the way to the bank, because we're too weak to pose a serious challenge to their kleptocracy. When I free myself of racism and sexism, I free myself, and that should be its own reward.

by Natasha Chart (natasha.the at gmail dot com) on Thu Aug 16th, 2007 at 05:41:49 PM EST
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