One of the problems with eliminating racism is that so many of its toxic messages come to us wrapped in the love we receive from (or bear for) our elders... a wrong note is harder to hear when we're feeling all warm and fuzzy. But deep inside us all, our hard-wired "taste buds" know right from wrong, if we reflect on what we've tasted.

I have a very good piece to post later to address the question about why US race stuff is so f*cked up-- describing the actual public policy underlying the warm/fuzzy stuff most US whites "learned" (and preach) about how wonderful "America" is as a land of "equality" and "opportunity." It's on my dead-battery fone, from which I will paste it later.

~S~