I was raised to believe and I still believe it as a wish, that if you ignore race it won’t be a problem anymore
The idea was if everybody stops bringing it up it won’t be a problem
if everybody wears a mask there won’t be covid
etc
but everybody doesn’t won’t – so there’s Little pockets of naivety of positivism thinking and how the future should be in 500 years — then there’s the reality that real people have to live
online it doesn’t matter
it might not matter if you live in the right community with the right people
you can spend your whole life not having a problem not needing it
but remember too people often don’t define who they are :
they define themselves by who they are not
it makes for a slightly bigger group than if you just use the label, but only by a smidgen