Nate Martin,
Port Angeles, WA
Rogers and Hammerstein posited “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught,” and this certainly applies to blatant, flagrant hatred. But the perniciousness is also perpetuated by myriad subtle and not-so-subtle cues passed along by those of us in the privileged caste, absorbed like the air we breathe and inflicted subconsciously on those who are choked-off in that system — the implicit bias and stereotype biases, accompanied by systemic and personal denial that results in such delusions as the “this is not a racist country” and “I can’t be a racist because I have black friends” phenomena.
