2016 Postmortem

Plenty of people are insensitive and say careless and thoughtless things without even realizing it, and certainly without any ill intent.

Intent MATTERS where this type of issue is concerned. I have seen people who spoke out against racism, sexism and bigotry quite vehemently say insensitive things before when they meant well. It happens. When people who misspeak with no ill intentions are treated like David Duke it causes very deep hurt and often resentment. That's the biggest problem in race relations right now. That combined with institutional biases ingrained into society.

We should choose our battles more wisely. Attacking non-racists only chases away would be supporters and the focus needs to be on the institutional racism because that is what is really harmful.