> but you can only convince others to rid themselves of racist ideas if you understand where they are coming from. Absolutely disagree, the appeal of racism is

> but you can only convince others to rid themselves of racist ideas if you understand where they are coming from. Absolutely disagree, the appeal of racism is well understood, it's only effect on society is to subjugate people, separate along racial lines. > healthy discourse over the politics and economics of the matter. "healthy discourse" implies that there is some kind of equivalency between racist and anti-racist, to believe that is to be willfully ignorant of situation and power structures which exist in the US today.