You've never experienced it. Most of you can't even stop yourselves from promoting it.

So why do you think you have the right to tell someone what is or isn't racist? Not just white Americans, but also white latinx, and other white passing POC.

It's 2018, and what will it take to make white Americans understand that their experiences aren't the authority in this country?

I'm sorry, but how is it that after 10+ years of learning about this country's history, built on the backs of black slaves and the indigenous communities it continues to oppress, you can still believe that this country is equal?

We all learned about Redlining, how the privatization of the prison system has led to a disproportionate percentage of minority, mainly black, men being jailed. It's weird, the continual ignorance in which we learn about something, and promptly forget/deny its existence.

It’s literally the history of your country, the country so many take so much pride in. But this isn’t like a stain on a shirt you can wash away after a cycle in the machine. This is something we all have to collectively work st to resolve. Which means that when the marginalized/ oppressed group is speaking, we have to listen.

Everyone is okay with saying that racist people exist, until they're confronted about it. Not to mention how some people assume a person's profession is supposed to shield them from their own racism.

It's not "a few bad seeds"; they're just the ones that got caught. There are statics on racism all over the place, all over the country, but because you know a cop, doctor, lawyer or judge that "isn't" racist to you, you're automatically going to disregard millions of people speaking out about their experiences?

I'm sorry, what? It doesn't make sense.

You know how to fix a problem, by admitting that there IS a problem. Racism is the fastest growing disease in the country.

If you don't believe me, turn on the TV and listen to the words people use: how they call hard-working immigrants rapists and murderers, how they've turned the word "thug" into the newest slur against a black man, the way cops are continuously being let go, without punishment, for murdering unarmed black men and how crimes committed against women of color are under reported and less likely to be solved.

And through all this, we still have to deal with white people and their blinders. It's easy to ignore a problem when it doesn't affect you, especially when it's within a society that BENEFITS you.

But that doesn't change the fact that by denying the issue, you're protecting it and holding up an inequal establishment.

* I would add a link but google is free and this information is a three second click away.