all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/wp_mjgj8c/racefiles.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114A while back I posted Four Tips on Talking About Racism<\/a>. Those tips were –<\/p>\n That last one is probably the toughest. I mean, who doesn’t want to make racist people feel ignorant, right? The problem is, making folks feel foolish just makes you look like a snob.<\/p>\n Now that the review is over, here’s another tip –<\/p>\n Help white folks be “good” white people.<\/p>\n Cringing yet? Don’t. It’s really not that tough, and, anyway, just laying a list of grievances on people makes potential allies feel guilty while putting off the less persuadable white folks. Since there are, at least in my experience, fewer easy allies than there are white people who react to anti-racist rants like they’re anti-them<\/em>, the attack strategy too often polarizes folks with too few on our side.<\/p>\n So, rather than isolate yourself, appeal to the good in white people.<\/p>\n Here’s a case in point:<\/p>\n Back in the day (circa late 80s\/early 90s), Portland, Oregon had a nasty problem with neo-Nazi skinheads<\/a>. The group I was active with documented over 200 members of Nazi groups in Portland<\/a>, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. The hangers-on and unregistered believers were far greater in number. Violence statistics soared, earning Portland the moniker “the Mississippi of the North” in the national media.<\/p>\n We needed to reach people at the projected base of support for neo-Nazi and other racist recruitment to counter the rise in violence. That projected base of support was, of course, white.<\/p>\n I know that sounds like a tough sell, but we believed that liberal whites would respond to expressions of extreme racism with shame. The most virulent racism lives as an echo of our own histories. Depending on which side of the color line you’re on<\/a>, the meaning is different, but, it resonates in one way or another for all of us. For that reason, overt racist appeals make liberal whites uncomfortable in our supposedly post-racial society.<\/p>\n So we gave “good” white people an opportunity to express that discomfort. Moreover, we helped them to draw a line in the sand between “good” and “bad” white people by giving liberal whites a leadership role in the fight against hate groups.<\/p>\n\n