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Re: We are all Slave now.
My grandparents were all good liberals who didn't hate anyone but every once in awhile would say some pretty racist things out of ignorance. Sebby would call them "not racist" but would be wrong. Like pretty much all of us, they had negative racial attitudes. They also lived in a society that didn't force them to examine them (especially in Minnesota and rural Wisconsin).
People with unexamined negative racial attitudes are racists. It doesn't mean they are irredeemable - I'd bet Hank's grandma would have come around - but if we can't recognize our family's (and our own) racial baggage, we're not going to make any progress.
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