I spent a long time making justifications like a lot of these folks. "My ancestors didn't own any slaves." "Gosh, you are articulate for a black person." "I'm not racist, I've had a black boyfriend." I've been that person. Nobody grows up where I did and doesn't become inherently racist for the first few years, even with a super Lib mom.

The point I am making is, keep writing the things you write about race because it takes being confronted with knowledge to break the programming and give racists perspective. I could say more, but it feels more like a confession of failures than any kind of path to anti racism.

I guess the thing is, white people who think they are never and have never been racist are the blindest racists. I know what I've done, and now I know what not to do. It isn't that hard. Joe can't be much older than me. His ass knows not the say shit like that. Peterson just thinks he's edgy, that muppety Canuck.