“If The Average White Person Doesn’t Hate Black People, Why Does Racism Persist?”
<p>The title is a question I received, like so many of the questions I am asked by cognitively dissonant people identifying as white, who more than likely consider themselves <em>average</em> as well. I am struck by the question at once, principally because this particular commenter actually expects me to <em>know</em> the answer to a question that opens with an inconsistency of reality I am expected to assume and then draw my answer from as though the paradox of Racism exists in a vacuum and without any defined rationale. This to me is exceedingly arrogant and makes me angry, very angry. The mass delusion between the lines is like a paradoxical math question without a rational answer:</p>
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