I would agree that not only the White community, but also the Black and Native American communities are absolutely riddled with racism...some of it overt, some of it covert. It's just not fashionable to recognize it as such, or to call it "racism", that's all, but it's there. I've seen it. It was one of the things which badly disillusioned me about the North American Indian movement, something I'd felt a deep connection with since I was a toddler. It was heartbreaking, in fact, to see such rank prejudice amongst those my heart called "friends".

I couldn't stomach it after awhile. The "oppressed" weren't behaving, on average, any nicer, any more fairly, or with any less prejudice than the White "oppressors" they were mobilizing against. It was a classic case of the pots calling the kettles black.

I had to walk away from it. I now consider myself just an individual (of no race but human), and I find it hard to have confidence in any of these activist movements, because they are riddled with hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness.

That goes for a lot of the more fashionable "liberalism" that's around these days too.

So I'm disgusted with knee-jerk, predictable liberals and I'm disgusted with knee-jerk, predictable conservatives. They're singing two sides of the same rotten coin as far as I'm concerned, and they deserve each other because they are so much alike.