I got an early copy of the Dear White America opinion piece (
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2015/12/24/dear-white-america/?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/HIcD7LTL8w) yesterday, so unlike you I have had 24 hours to live with the fact that I am apparatus a gigantic racist...oh and a sexist to boot. The only good news is that you are too and so is every other dude and/or white person you know. If you are Chinese or Indian or Caribbean or whatever you are not a racist as far as I can tell, but if you are white you certainly are. It doesn't matter if you have black friends, are married to a black person, voted for Obama, like Tyler Perry productions, own a couple of Run DMC records, you are a card carrying white supremacist.
I think it comes down to the fact that you live an easier life and you benefit from ingrained institutional racism which sort of takes the responsibility of being a cross burning white robe wearing black person lyncher out of his own hands because he can't help it, just like I can't. It is like a Rottweiler who bites a kid's hand off, not really his fault because he is born to be a piece of sh!t dog with no real value.
I have no idea how to respond because his article makes it clear that if you reject it then you are just denying that you are a racist and if you admit it..well then you are.
It is like the old "when did you stop beating your wife" thing
So now that we are all racists, maybe we can start making jokes without looking over our shoulder
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