If you say you’re racist then you’re racist, if you say you are not racist then you are racist. According to his logic it is impossible for a white person to not be racist.

Via Red Alert Politics:

Despite decades of social change and progress, a Duke University professor told students racism still exists among white people, just not as overtly as it did many years ago.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a sociology professor at Duke University, spoke before students in a guest lecture at Dartmouth College on Thursday, discussing how white people often disguise their racism with ‘color-blindness’ and express their prejudice more covertly. Though many white people claim they are are no longer racist, African-Americans today face the same prejudice they did in the 1960s, Bonilla-Silva said.

“We are not post-racial,” the Duke professor said, according to The Dartmouth. “This ideology is suave but deadly.”

A new kind of racism has emerged, he said, one that is often shrouded in white people’s attempts to shrug off racist claims. Bonilla-Silva cited the election of President Barack Obama, the first African-American president, as an example and said many use his election as a way to prove America has moved well past the days of Jim Crow.

But society has found itself in an era of color-blind racism, he said, dismissing white people’s claims of progress as “sincere fictions,” according to The Dartmouth. Instead, African-Americans find themselves facing more economic challenges than whites and receive inferior education in “so-called integrated” institutions, Bonilla-Silva continued.

“We must fight white supremacy,” he said. “The only way to remove racism in America is to remove systemic racism.”

In addition to referencing President Obama’s election, Bonilla-Silva also called out white people for using specific rhetoric that proves their disguised racism. He noted some will say “some of my best friends are black,” which, according to The Dartmouth, “blames discrimination on the victim and the incomprehensible response to the topic of race.” He continued, noting many white Americans will say they did not personally own slaves or were in attendance at Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington as a way to deny their “personal prejudice.”

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I've been hearing this same crap since the 60's.