’s article When White People Try to Hide Their Racism, They Use These Phrases got me thinking about all the ways that some white people try to avoid talking about racism…and why.
By “some” I mean my family, the suburb in Washington state I grew up in, and people like them I met in community college in Washington state — and elsewhere.
Once I attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, I found a community with different rules, and now I live in south central Kentucky, where the rules are different again.
I’m going to cover four related topics: what low-key racism is, my personal experience with low-key racism, the motivations of low-key racist people, and the lingering effects of low-key racist people on me. The last part I’m including because I want to bust the myth that white people can opt out of the race issues in America.