By refusing to add your white voices you gave the defining of racism a black face. Image Credit The New York TimesThis all contributes to whittling away at the reality of racism itself, that it even exists in nearly the proportions which social scientists have documented. This refusal to properly and consistently call racism racism allows the pro-racists and the racism deniers to proclaim nearly unopposed that labeling something or someone racist has simply become a weapon, and that the words themselves have lost meaning by overuse. In truth, the opposite is true: Racism is actually under-identified and labeled in America. It would be to recognize that much of their existence is privileged, and conversely blackness is oppressed.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2019 00:23 UTC