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I believe few do understand. Those are the people who would gladly join White supremacist groups and openly assert the superiority of White folks over everybody else. They're the ones who call the cops on Black folks to make us suffer.I think they understand completely, how else would they keep weaponizing police by calling them on black folks? They just don't want to disrupt their comfortable world by accepting it and having to deal with it. Just like NTer's here who get upset by it disrupting their happy browsing.
A large number hang onto rhetoric that has nothing to do with racism on the surface until you peel the layers of their faulty logic that justify their way of thinking and get to the core of the American problem: the racial totem pole.
The success of the Southern Strategy has been its ability to hide racism, phrenology, and racial hierarchy ideologies under dining table issues such as reproductive rights, religion, gun control, and taxes (social funding). Its proponents have used the rise of minority figureheads as another veil to disguise the social order in the US. The result is White folks who are genuinely surprised that racial issues never went away.
What they know is that the country started with a particular racial stratification, and I suspect that many of them are afraid to find out that deep down, things have always remained the same (today, the average wealth of a Black family is $8 vs $250k for a White family; this is by design). They have to peel the layers and they have to fix the main problem if they want to save this country.