"work in progress" when we discuss the American experience with such flimsy language we betray our own ambitions https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1298083752061685760

If it's not racist then when did it shed its racism?
Emancipation?
Reconstruction?
Jim crow segregation?
Civil rights?

It's disingenuous to talk about progress if we can't discuss what we are progressing from.... What are we progressing to?

White folks and.... People who assimilate white identity... Discuss racism as if it is a collection of uncomfortable events... Like the time meemaw potato salad got everybody at the church sick

Racism becomes "bad feelings"

Instead of systemic expressions of power

America was birthed in racism... It's the one true genetic marker of this nation

It's okay to say that