Despite the well-documented existence of systemic/institutionalized racism that exists as a superset of overt racism, many naive antagonists still retort with “anyone can be racist regardless of skin color” as a way to deflect criticism of inherently racist structures.

It’s true that anyone can be racist regardless of skin color, but the fact of the matter is that that discrimination is still often times in service of white supremacy, one way or another.

It doesn’t take a white person to support and advocate for white supremacy.

So I’ve taken to just talking about white supremacy instead of even bothering with talking about racism.