Reply #66: You seem to be taking this extremely personally and getting totally off track

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so I'll end this conversation here.

But your uncle's experiencing racism would be completely different from the INSTITUTIONALIZED, SYSTEMIC racism that people of color experience daily in this country. There is a profound difference between experiencing a racist incident at the hands of a person or even a group of people at any particular junction in time and experiencing institutionalized racism that impacts every single aspect of one's life.

And for the record, your attitude is much more indicative of why race can never be discussed in this country. For some whites, the very idea that there are topics, subjects and issues in which they are not the first or last authority is something that they cannot possibly comprehend or accept. They become hostile and defensive at the very thought that their opinion may have less weight than others -- which you have assuredly done here. It is simply incomprehensible to some that the voices of non-whites in Western cultures such as the United States carry more weight on the subject of racism by sheer virtue of the white supremacist ideals on which many Western societies are founded upon. It's a shame but not at all surprising.