Literally don’t think about, as in the stuff that passes below our consciousness, that we don’t detect, let alone ponder. The stuff where we don’t even think about it as racism because it’s just How Things Are in our minds, axiomatic assumptions about people based on their race.<\/p>\n
(Or their gender, or their sexual orientation, or …)<\/p>\n
I say “we” and “our” — and I definitely include “me” and “my” in that.<\/p>\n
These blind spots are, by definition, difficult to catch. The trick is, then, if someone points one out to us, giving that observation a fair shake and consideration, not just getting reflexively torqued because someone has accused us of a racist (etc.) belief which of course<\/em> we aren’t so the accusation is absurd and deeply insulting and …<\/p>\n