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Racism is more than bigotry. Racism is (1) the division of human beings into made-up categories and (2) systematic, institutional exclusion of humans beings based upon these made up categories.
The most insidious racism doesn& #39;t growl in your face, it smiles in your face while denying you equal rights and saying "we& #39;re just following the law" or even "we& #39;re just working here".
Racism does not require racist individuals to function, it functions independently of who& #39;s in the system. They& #39;re all "just doing their job". Many of them are nice people who look at you like you& #39;re unreasonable and don& #39;t understand why you& #39;re so upset.
Races don& #39;t really exist, they are manufactured. Racism is not the product of races - rather, races are the product of racism.
Many white people I know (most of them really good people) think that races are real but they don& #39;t matter. The truth is, races are not real, and it does matter.
The proper way to talk about racism shouldn& #39;t be "white people are excluding us", but rather "a system has been built that privileges white people whether or not they ask for it".
