The way Americans teach racism as an individual character flaw rather than a defining characteristic of American policy makes it so much easier to gaslight POC.
Many White people are ill-equipped to understand disparate impact. Unless a policy explicitly says “NO BLACK PEOPLE ALLOWED” or “WE ARE TRYING TO KILL YA’LL, BLACK PEOPLE” or “RACIST AGAINST THE N***ERS,” they will deny a racist thing is racist.
Even with the handy dandy metaphor “When White America catches a cold, Black America catches pneumonia,” they still don’t get it. Or rather, they refuse to.
Because all over, Black folks are speaking up and explaining exactly how policies that apply to everyone can affect Black people disparately, and too many White folks call that truth a “racial agenda” 🙃
My only “racial agenda” today is to not let White supremacy kill me, either overtly or covertly.
