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Racism As Political
There are a lot of people who avoid discussing racism by saying “Let’s not talk about politics.”
We are not in this world all alone despite some of us staying at home most of the time, or some of us just socializing with only a certain number of close individuals, or some of us may not have any contact with anyone.
What do we think about other people?
It’s important to remember that what we think of other people sets us up in how we treat them. Our thoughts of other people motivate our feelings towards them. What we think drives us to ideas and impressions.
Even when many of us are physically alone, we know that there are towns, cities, outskirts of cities, villages, trailer parks, families in lone cabins, etc. everywhere in the world and too many of us think poorly of others rather than learn about them to care.
Our images and opinions of other people always matter as they affect the way we communicate with them, influence our motivation on whether or not to help them and how we create our rules and policies to serve them (or not).
In our daily interactions with people (whether in-person or online), we ought to see others as their own set of experiences and not a list of over-exhausted stereotypes.
