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As a white American what really gets me is most white people really do not have a good grip on the actual history or the way the history has brought us to this moment. They just have this nebulous "All racism is BAD" stance. But they have, as MLK Jr called clergy out on from in jail in Birmingham, there is a shallow understanding and lukewarm acceptance of the issues and people and then they might turn around and spout a racist stereotype and not understand that it's racist and harmful and argue it when that's pointed out.  
I think we are obsessed with race but many have little actual knowledge of why the racial obsession is what it is and how it came to be that way.
In what ways do you think this obsession manifests? Could you give examples of what the American obsession with race looks like on a behavioural level? >

Diversity courses for jobs, the actual acknowledgment of slavery, and of course media obcession with racial incidents from police shootings to  subliminal Karen type discrimination >


Diversity courses for jobs, the actual acknowledgment of slavery

Do you really think these are what people are referring to when they talk about an obsession with race?

media obcession with racial incidents from police shootings

This is getting closer... >

Some people, absolutely! >

Imagine raising a group a children of different races in seclusion and making no mention of race. They would treat skin color like hair color and never have a racist thought. However, thanks in part to social media, people can now make a lot of money by trying to hyper focus on race and tear people apart. >

Naa, racism is only possible by whites. Twitter told me so >

Constantly talking about racism is keeping racism alive.
Granted, the USA is one of the few melting pots.  So, we have to confront race issues.
Much of the world is still very homogenous.  Norway surely has a larger white majority than we do.  And most people in Japan are Asian.  Most people in Latin America are Hispanic or Mulatto.  And most people in central Africa are black.  (Although, let's not forget that the Rwanda genocide was one ethnic group of black folks killing another ethnic group of black people.)
Out of curiosity, how are Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians handling relations with the aboriginal peoples? >

Latin America is actually more diverse then the United States. Brazil for example is half black or Pardo. And effects of colonialism/ Slavery is only minimally addressed.
Canada handles indigenous relations better then America imo. They even use the term first nations to describe them 
Australia follows more of the UKs model which is to largely pretend nothing happened >

The thing about Canada is that its all words and no action. Justin Trudeau likes to pretend he's trying to right the wrongs of the past, but in reality, hes capitalizing on the suffering of a people who have suffered enough. Manipulating peoples empathy for electoral gain. Have you ever seen a canadian reserve? Especially ones in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan? Theyre not getting better, not even close. >

I think this might just be a consequence of extremely homogeneous society/ cultures. America being so diverse would likely be less racist than an extremely homogeneous society irrespective of how much attention they actually put on race. >

How does focusing on groups of people and their differences make it less racist? Wouldn't it be preferable that you see different people as fellow countryman and not think of them immediately by their skin color and race? That I don't look at an asian man and think "He is Asian he is different to me a White man and I have to look at him and treat him differently". Isn't it better I just see him as an American? It seems focusing so much on how black people are black or hispanics are hispanic and are different to us just makes people more racist. >

It could be that both are true.  That we are going overboard and elsewhere they are ignoring disparities or not sufficiently addressing them. >

Delta! I should of incorpoarted that into my argument. For my part I’d rather live in overboard then underboard >

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Right. That's what I try to tell people too when they're like "want racism to stop? Stop talking about it" like no lol we need to talk about it so we can learn from our mistakes right?