Warning: More long-windedness.

As I read through this thread, one thing that strikes me is the diversity of perspectives among people who share some common values. Not one person has posted here to whom social justice is not an important issue. Not one post to this thread suggests the poster does not recognize, nor is concerned with the continued presence of racism in our society, or with issues of sociopolitical economic social justice. Still, we squabble, clarify, recap, etc.

I note this not as a chastisement, but as an observation. Gee. We be humans.

The wounds of past racism, the realities of current racism, and each of our own complex emotions tell the tale of the effects of racism on all of us as individuals and as a society.    It leads to the denial of racism, when racism is really operative. It leads to the perception of racism when racism is not operative. It impairs the faculty of discernment within the individual and within the group. Think of all the times that it is likely that both racism and projection of racism are present.   

I gotta go to bed. More later.

Maybe.

Peace and discernment to all,

Janie