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Originally Posted by taxwonk

You can ignore the "polite" racism. That's one-percenter bullshit. People in this country are racist because they are racist. Whites in the vast majority simply believe that this great nation was built for their benefit, based upon their twisted interpretation of their Protestant hypocritical God, who is not the God of the brown and black people.

I sit and listen in public places all the time, more and more than I did when I first moved down here, to white, unemployed folks living on disability and SNAP and one form or another of hustling, talking about how it's the blacks and the Hispanics, all of them living on welfare, who are destroying this country.

Federal benefits and state benefits and all the freebies in the world are just fine, as long as they are being paid to uneducated or undereducated whites who would rather sit in bars all day long than hold down any job.

The only way to change things is to figure out a way to get the white folks who don't believe that to fucking cowboy up and start getting in the face of every racist they hear talking about how lazy and shiftless blacks are, and how the messkins are stealing the jobs of decent (read: white) folk and call them on their bullshit.

We need to get into arguments, lose friends, and maybe be willing to take a punch or two, and throw a punch or two.

And that's what living in the South has taught me.

I agree with this completely. Most of the excuses for racism, the suggestions that if we complained less about racism and worked more on jobs, are bs. Throw the punches, stand up for what you believe in.