We don't need a solution that works for everyone. We don't need a solution that works for oppressors, only the oppressed.

"Oppressed" lmfao please point me to a single law or anything of the sort that purposefully oppressed non whites? Are east asians oppressed in America? They do better than white people in every metric in white countries.

Thank you;)))

Because it's the shortest month.

It's not about solutions. If people stopped these so-called trainings or just went back to being regular people not fixated or categorized by race, they'd be out of a job. Race-hustling is big business.

It’s not really true that anti-racism training teaches racism. It unveils it. This is what I call “whoever smelt it, dealt it,” logic. If you point out the problem, you are the problem. Racism is learned very early, and by the age of two most toddlers understand what racism is. They understand by observing the world their parents live in and how they interact with the people around them. We are meaning making machines, us humans. And our innate emotional sensitivities is what drives this meaning in the beginning. Our nervous systems don’t even work independently until we’re two or three. You get all emotional input from your caretakers, so if you caretaker gets anxious around outsiders, that emotional pattern may become a part of your emotional system. This is how racism is passed down. If you live in a community that is all one race, or where the only place your children see people different from themselves is in service roles, they’ve learned something they believe is concrete about how society is structured. It’s in our movies, our news, our books. The only way to not keep teaching racism is to create public spaces that show the full spectrum of possibilities to our youngsters. What people do and believe in private is up to them, but public spaces have to be integrated for biases to not form or to mitigate the effect of it from the home environment. I was raised in a multicultural community. This is rare. I don’t have many biases about others because I saw all kinds of people in all kinds of roles. There were few associations or assumptions I could make from what I was observing and experiencing. Very few biases took root. In adulthood everyone expects us to have all these biases and is frightened of me because largely, I don’t. But my mom raised me this way, consciously.

Are you serious...your response to the systemic racism addressed in this podcast is to say it works both ways, evidenced by the fact that a child didn't want to play with you because you were white. While that likely hurt you when you were a child, it probably didn't have the same impact as institional racism. Unbelievable.