"Skew liberal to progressive" here. I've heard friends of mine who are black talk about things like being followed around at a grocery store. I remember when Er

"Skew liberal to progressive" here. I've heard friends of mine who are black talk about things like being followed around at a grocery store. I remember when Eric Garner was killed, a lot of my friends who are black didn't want to talk at all in school, and felt incredibly anxious. I also remember that shortly after those discussions where I learned of that anxiety, several of those people were in a class with me where the teacher brought up Eric Garner and put the 3 black people in the class on spotlight - she wasn't even trying to be malicious, she actually wanted to learn things, but I'm sure you can imagine how that made those 3 people feel. A lot of things are easy to just "not see" yet they happen quite often, and that is why the "unnatural obsession" exists for me at least. When you see the amount of racism that exists and can easily go unnoticed by you, you see the world in a different way. It's almost like finding out about the NSA and how little privacy we all have these days. I vividly remember the time I went to In-N-Out with a group, and took a seat at a table after ordering, but the group ended up moving to a different table. I asked the person who wanted to move the group "Why do you want us to sit over there?" She said nothing, but lifted her hand up and pointed a finger, and I looked over and there wasn't anything wrong. But there was a group of black people there. This was a time when racism was clear as day and right in front of me. But hearing many stories of racism from my friends who are black is a different feeling - instead of feeling like there's an isolated incident, I see how common it is, and how easy it is to just not see it. And that's scary. Scarier than the NSA and Facebook, because instead of losing privacy, people are actively harmed and you can easily not even see or hear about it