W.A. Hayes
1 min readMar 9, 2021

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Don't you know what you're saying, as in what you said in your previous article? Racism, prejudice, systemic or not, is a belief and a lifestyle. In order for white people to be inherently racist, that would mean that they have inherited genetically/biologically throughout the ages of white peoples' existence on earth. That or it is socially reinforced throughout the ages by the Caucasians having a history of racism.

But to say we're all inherently racist is like saying that all Muslims are inherently anti-Semitic because of their long-term issues with the Jewish people and Israel, or the Germans (and many other European countries) for that matter, who have a history of anti-Semitism of course. It's like saying all Protestants are inherently anti-Catholic because of a long history of conflict between the two. Religion, politics, race, ethnicity, or anything else, views and acts towards such people are generated by conscience and nothing more. They can be reinforced by social customs and certain lifestyles, but it is a grave mistake to say that certain people naturally inherit these beliefs as if it were a twerk particular to their own race, ethnicity, or anything else.

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W.A. Hayes
W.A. Hayes

Written by W.A. Hayes

Gentleman, Scholar, and Punk Poet. I'm a male, so I will let you figure out my pronouns.

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