And I do hate it. It fills me with rage and anger. Almost every time I hear people use the word or I see it written it is in reference to Civil Rights leaders or those who call racism, racism. Many of them will be happy to turn the discussion to the racism of people of color, how it isn’t just white people. Even when an act of blatant racism occurs some people want to pretend it is something else. A white supremacist goes into a historic black church and kills nine black people and still there are people who cannot just say what it is, pure racism.
Why? Is it that people are afraid if they really looked into the abyss that is racism they will see themselves staring back?