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Good on you for trying, but it seems to be hard for people to have understanding or even basic acknowledgement if they don't actually come across (m)any people who aren't white.
Having pontificated on 'my travels with white privilege' above, I think back to the only times when my existence could be anything tangentially approaching resistance and it's been when I've been the lone non-white. It's also sometimes remarkably, laughably (bitter kind of laugh) easy to affect people when they are confronted with you - a non-white person - as a sort of living rejection of their assumptions. I remember surreal conversations at different times with BNP supporters, Union Jack draped skinheads (not all skinheads), racist men in pubs (not all men etc) who all seemed kind of taken aback that I existed. This is of course much, much easier when they do not perceive you to be a threat, and when you yourself are not in fear of violence. (Which is of course less likely if you are black.)
Fortunately I never came across 18 year old 'Hedge. They sound like hard work.
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I live in a very white part of Scotland yet these last couple of weeks have heard so much racist bullshit spouted. If there was ever proof for structural racism, it's where racism exists without any people from other races.
Anyway, I continue to argue with people but it feels futile.