The End of Racism?

Steven Barnes
7 min readFeb 22, 2022

“Under the same historical conditions, would whites have been as damaged by slavery, and taken as long to heal?”

The lovely thing about the Question is that it is a racist trap. If A=B, then over time, they will perform the same, if tested in similar circumstances. If they do NOT get the same results, either A does NOT equal B, or the circumstances are different. Simple

When a bigot claims their answer is “yes” , he doesn’t grasp that he is either lying to himself, or he doesn’t really believe the circumstances are the same, or he is ignorant of the different results…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.