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| Ferguson protest in Clayton (the seat of St. Louis county). |
(Disclaimer: I'm White and male. I'm committed to
ending both racism and sexism and exposing the myths and pretensions
that keep the two socially potent.)
I needed a term for discriminating white people who maintain that their moderate racism isn't racist. The sort who are proud that their use of the n*gg*r to describe a low-life white person shows such racial enlightenment. They cite the lack of white hoods in their closets as conclusive proof that their refusal to think about hiring a Black person has nothing to do with race. The ones who won't let the color of a person's skin bother them, but clothes, language and names are all fair game; and the ones of Black people disgust them the most of all, merely by coincidence. The sort who always make damn sure they always have one or two Black friends so when they're accused of racism, they can always cite him, and (don't forget!) his family as some of his best friends.
For now I'll settle for Ambiguously Racist White People, or ARWP's. Or perhaps just ARs. I've been having run-ins with a lot of them recently on social media. The Riverfront Times Facebook Page. I needed to develop a term before I dove into it. I don't want to paint White people with too broad a brush, do I?
