I think we can all understand racism at a structural level but to be viscerally aware that that racism could amount to physical harm on your body is something I’ve only experienced in the western cape Afrikaans community. And my god it is petrifying
All of the above has shaped my race politics and it infuriates me when I meet rich black people who’ve been able to try and leverage the racial power disparity through class because they come from a wealthy, police my response to whiteness or suggest that I’m over reacting
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