Right Before Your Very Eyes
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Woody'z aho (always humble opinion): Being a "racist" is part of the
social genetic heritage of White people in Ummurka. It is SOOO much a
SOOO significant part of EVERYTHING which has manufactured the "American
Way" that it is metaphorically almost
identical with the consequences of original sin, to those who believe
that. No one born in the White majority in the USA has completely
escaped its brush. Some have been more aware of it sooner, and have
striven to reverse and repair such damages as they can. Not all,
certainly not a majority, or even a plurality. Only some.
There's
a reason that "racial' superiority is still a vital component of the
social identities of 'lower-class' White folks. White folks still
comprise about 66%/pop, and poor white folks are the most numerous
consumers of the largest amount of "unearned" Federal benefits, from
food assistance to school vouchers. Yet they're acolytes of an ideology
which casts that sort of behavior as dependence and assigns it to their
"inferiors." The dissonance they can dispel, exhaust, inside the systems
of racism which survive and even flourish, some places. The Greeks had a word for it: Hamartanein, the fatal flaw; three-fifths the size of Achilles' heel.
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