I am currently reading Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and thus far have come across the word "nigger" at least a dozen times. I don't feel any differently about black people because of it. I have also returned to working out at my local CrossFit gym, the CEO of which has been accused of being a racist. Again, my personal values remain unchanged.
I am finding the book about the adventures of a young boy in the South in the 1880s to be quite amusing, sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny, and never even a little bit racist in feeling or intent. As for the gym, my personal trainer is the same wonderful woman she has always been and the other members I see there are also unchanged, except for sometimes wearing face masks.
The truth is that racism resides deep in the hearts of some people and cannot be "undone" or "fixed" by any government action. It's got to come from within. Handing out money to black people in the form of "reparations" won't change a thing, except that they will have more money for awhile.
Good observation IMO
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