It’s the impulse to claim and believe “I can’t be racist, I have black friends/spouse” in response to being called out for racist behaviour, as if the association alone exonerates you.

It's the impulse to claim and believe "I can't be racist because I'm liberal, progressive and/or woke" as if sharing clickbait Huffpost articles and performing politically left in public somehow exonerates you.

It's the impulse to believe "I can't be racist because I'm educated" as if the most educated country in the western world didn't commit the world's most horrible genocide.

It’s the impulse to deny a meaningful racial wealth gap, because oh look Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan are multi-millionaires.

It’s the impulse to claim “race shouldn’t matter” to silence any discussion about how support people of colour specifically.

It's the impulse to yell "get your politics out of my art" when the new Star Wars movie features a black stormtrooper.

It’s the impulse to withdraw from difficult conversations about racism, because you don't experience racial inequality, therefore it must be exaggerated.

It's the impulse to seek some sort of meritocratic justification for why black people are so disproportionately incarcerated.

It’s the impulse to spend your energy attacking someone who called your behaviour racist, rather than listening and internalizing, difficult as that may be.

And finally: It’s the core belief that your silence and neutrality somehow does not contribute to racial injustice. Silence is effectively violence.

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