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This is a troubling blind spot of white liberalism: the idea that smart/educated people can& #39;t be racist+ that the solution to racism is individual absolution (*I* am not like that. *I* have never said the n-word in my life. *I* voted for Barack Obama) rather than systemic change.
I think it& #39;s tempting for us to believe we can just sort of delete the Confederacy app off our phone and be done. The idea that it& #39;s the whole operating system--that no part of our culture, even the good bits, is untouched by it--is too big to think about.
I would encourage any liberals popping in here with some variation of a No True Scotsman argument to maybe take a minute and reconsider. 
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"Who do you become when you panic?" is a pretty good measure of who you really are. That instinct she had--that she could rely on the cops *even when it was she who broke the rules*--isn& #39;t something you get over in 1 afternoon of sensitivity training. That is firmware.
Anyway, this is all to say that, even if you& #39;ve got a master& #39;s degree and you& #39;ve read Marx in the original German and you always recycle, if you are white, you are probably running some of that firmware. You, me, all of us. It& #39;s in the background. It doesn& #39;t care how you vote.
