re: Everything isn't political or social.

As a white male from a small southern town, I have been the victim of racism my entire life. From fellow students, teachers, police, FEMA, public policies on education regarding where I could go to school vs my neighbors who were black, my college admissions, hiring practices, and now, everyone in America, including other white people. And not once have I ever treated another man or woman differently or with any less respect for it.

But what my life has taught me, is that there is no shortage of racists in America, they just aren't as white as people are told to believe. They're the poor, the uneducated, the miseducated, and the people who place the blame for their failures at the feet of others. I worked delivering newspapers, I worked in a grocery store, I worked my summers, through high school and college, I worked nights to get in with better companies, I studied on my own time what I wanted to be. And not once have I been given something because of my skin color. But you damn well know there were plenty of people hired on my teams simply to meet diversity quotas due to affirmative action.

We can agree that racism exists, but my view of systemic racism is factual, based on government policies that discriminate against people who look like me, simply because they look like me. But no one wants to talk about that do they? No, people nowadays just don't want to sleep in the bed they've made for themselves through years and years of proving stereotypes correct. So I applaud you for being an example for others to follow, but you have no fricking clue what it was like growing up white, even before all this started, and pretending everything was just peachy because everyone loves whitey and hates blacky makes you ignorant at best, and racist at worst. I'm not mad at you though.