All white people are racists...or "white fragility" ??

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I was raised in a very white, upper-mid suburban neighborhood, mostly. It is what it is. I don't have a guilt trip about it, but it's not something I'm proud of, either.

I've dreamt lately of living in an airpark. Those places go for millions. You get a hangar for any personal planes you have. Sure, it's going to be predominately white. Again, no guilt trip about it. But such whiteness is also not what I crave.

I'm fairly suspicious of affirmative action and handouts and such. But it's from the standpoint of really wanting people hired on their own merits, not color. Now..how else do we tackle racism in hiring? I have no clue. I just don't. Maybe AA to a certain degree. But I also question the need to make a perfect racial fabric everywhere.

I just skimmed through the article. Frankly, I'm a bit tired from the day, so I'll need to respond to it tomorrow. But frankly, I'm sick of taking race into account for everything. I'm not counting my friends to make sure they meet a racial quota, whether perfectly diverse or all-white.