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It's funny hearing people talk about unity and healing a divide but there's no possible scenario of that, when to half of the country the only means of "unity" is the other half knowing their place as second class citizens, and real unity and equality evoke feelings of threat and insecurity.
Through out our country's history, white men have been engaged in a democracy of manners. You can have vast amounts of economic inequality but we act as if every citizen is equal.
Today, white conservatives have imposed that same democracy of manners on people of color and it is quite devious. As far as conservative whites are concerned, all that matters is being polite and not using overt racial slurs. It also means that, in the eyes of white conservatives, anyone who is disruptive and seeking real change, is now "the real racist."
This democracy of manners means that white guys can dog whistle about "Chicago" and "the inner city" all they like but if you call them on it, you are "making everything about race."
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