This is the Best Explanation of Why White People Cant Recognize or Accept the Reality of Racism

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2. All humanity suffers from the effects of racism

and I further add that racism, while tied to skin color and ethnicity, is part of a larger "cultural conflict" that separates people through the pervasive use of subtle "microaggessive" means, as you have noted, yet goes unnoticed.
The truth of our individual experiences is personal and profound.
I along with thousands of other Americans, was privileged to fly my freak flag high starting in the sixties. As a male with long hair I became subject to a hatred openly expressed toward myself and fellow "hippies" by people of all ages and colors. It did not take long for us to grasp the underbelly of frustration and hatred brewing in the national psych. Many discussions took place among our collective band of American "rejects" of every ethnicity and color about this phenomenon. We really did believe that by showing a solidarity in celebration of our wildly varied colors, hair styles, clothing, behaviors, and open expressions of civil disobedience we could change the world at large. It was not to be the case, though many advances were made and continue to be made as the rights machine moves on.
However, the subtle "cultural conflict" I refereed to is still with us unnoticed and pervasive. The hatred expressed toward American "hippies" is now an important part of the new calling card of the conservative, pro-white, racist crowd that is still threatened by anyone "different" from them.
While people of color are the most common victims of this aggression, we can also see it expressed today as a distrust of facts, higher education, acceptance of a more politically correct society, and denial of any and all important issues raised by the "hippy" crowd. Issues such as climate consciousness, effects of human activity on our fragile environment, eating better for wellness, and the advancement of alternate renewable energies are now reasons to separate us. A reasoning that grew out of hatred and disdain for a generation that dared to challenge the status quo.
We all are suffering under the oppressive yoke of racism, we just have not acknowledged that it affects us all the same in subtle and profoundly global ways.