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Why do you (People) Make Everything about Race?
We don’t. YOU do.
Why do you (people) make everything about race?
Truth be told, white people make everything about race. Those of us who are black and brown just see the circumstances and notify you. Some folks get angry and retort that we only “see racism” because we’re looking for it, so we choose to interpret every interaction not to our liking as “racism.” Others respond, yet again, that only individual acts of discrimination are racism, so neither they, nor the American system, is racist. Sorry. Wrong again.
Let me tell you a little story about racism. I needed neither a magnifying glass nor a nit comb to find it. It found me in larger-than-life-sized panels.
I live in an East Coast city known for its many colleges and universities. There are so many that I can actually walk less than two miles from my home in any direction and be on campus property. As I was passing by one of those schools, I saw a wall painted with images of students. Each panel had a phrase describing an aspiration that its students and its graduates could reach, along with a picture of a student.
