I've had far too many [former] friends reveal themselves to hold racist beliefs.
To some degree, I can deal with this. To some degree.
I've discovered ingrained racist beliefs in myself before, and I'm dealing with them (after being slapped upside by people who I'm extremely grateful are still talking to me).
But it does hurt when people won't dialogue because "it's not my problem, I'm colourblind" without realising that being "blind to colour" is one way of ignoring that POC struggle - that at one level, it's pretending that the playing field is level, instead of the POC side being sown with stones.
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To some degree, I can deal with this. To some degree.
I've discovered ingrained racist beliefs in myself before, and I'm dealing with them (after being slapped upside by people who I'm extremely grateful are still talking to me).
But it does hurt when people won't dialogue because "it's not my problem, I'm colourblind" without realising that being "blind to colour" is one way of ignoring that POC struggle - that at one level, it's pretending that the playing field is level, instead of the POC side being sown with stones.