One of the biggest propaganda wins for white supremacists was teaching kids (and everyone else) that racism is a unique and special evil, one that can only be done by evil racists or faceless passionless "systems."
It's more comfortable to think of it as a force of nature or a thing only done by Bad Guys than something almost all of us contribute to and need to be conscious of.
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A Black man I talked to told me the thing that really got under his skin was the elevator doors opening and the (white) people waiting would decide they didn't really want the elevator, after all. He said it was like a slap in the face, every time.
