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humanodon  ·  4256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Only Americans can pitch perfect games . . ."

It's too bad though that there are some that happen to have "not white friends" and use them as some kind of buffer, as if having friends who aren't white means that they can't possibly be racist or have deeply ingrained racist beliefs. It's too bad that "hey, y'know, sometimes I forget you're not white" is often issued with the idea that that's some kind of compliment.

Most people don't think about context when it comes to historical events, viewing things from the past only from the lens of their own experience. Let things go undisturbed and un-evaluated for long enough and they'll rot from within.