Not likely.
And soooo many people, regardless of their race/ethnic background do not understand the MEANING - the definition if you will of racism.
Example - I grew up in a black neighborhood and I got picked on by the neighborhood kids for being white.
vs.
Example - Driving While Black is Dangerous is some places. So is shopping. It's not 'personal'. It just is. I have to be cognizant because society finds racial profiling of blacks as no-good and always up to something shifty. This leads to higher incarceration rates for example.
See the difference?
Now ALL white liberals? No. My mom is one - my fiance is one . . . but my fiance will also tell you "I'm not white! I'm Calabrese". He's literally off the plane from the Calabrian region of Italy. 
They ARE different down there.
Those people! Neither one claims it is the 'same' thing. It's not. But they look at the world through their CHILDREN and future childrens' eyes if that makes sense . . .
A converse- my dad 'got' the discrimination towards the Irish in this country. Here's a black man with a dark complexion from the deep South. But you probe deeper - and you'd learn his formative years were very much shaped by three people - his Cherokee great gram, his black grandfather, and his Irish off the boat from Galway great grandfather.
But - he would also say - the difference is (as learned from his grand daddy with the accent 
) an Irish person can walk the street, not open their mouth and not be bothered. His great grandsons could not.
That's the difference in America. And it's something white liberals sometimes 'try' to understand by 'identifying' with. It's not inherently evil - because the difference between a white American person at DU and Freeperland? The membership here might not always 'get it' - but they try. They care. They WANT to give a damn.
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