Easy to say what someone else "should" do, eh?

Racism, BTW is not limited to what people INTEND. Yes of course it's good to know what people intend, and it's good for people to intend good things, but racism has a way of snaking its way through our cultures all on its own. One of its most pernicious characteristtics is precisely that it happens DESPITE intention-- when people's attention is off on something else. Oppression works like that.

Did anyone here among us in this discussion, for instance, MEAN to wake up this morning and mistreat someone else because of some unexamined and inaccurate impression about them? Of course not. But if we are honest, don't we do this every day to some measure, toward someone we encounter?

~Susan