"Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1929-01-15, d. 1968-04-04), Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963-04-15
[And this'd be why talking about structural racism is both a bigger deal than whether any one person is a bigot, and why it's so frustrating that mentioning the existence of structural racism makes so many people get defensive as though they were personally attacked.]
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