2021. Hmm. It has great potential. That's where I am today. Hell, in the 15m block of time. Watching and learning.

OK, so I have a very different take on it.

I agree that it is not easy. Here is a HUGE part of the problem, though: "the crux is empathy." For whom?

Let's take a different topic to avoid tripwires in our own. Let's take date rape. Who defines “the crux?”

If you put 100 Black people in a room and asked "how do you end racism?" You'd get 100 "stop being racists."

My impression is, if you put 100 White people in the room, the same question would be answer "build better relationships through empathy."

The problem isn't the complexity of the solution. The problem is when does the source of abuse define the abuse solution? I don’t want a better relationship. I don’t want empathy. I only want to not be abused.

OK, sure. But "stop being racist" is so vague, how does that happen outside of bringing empathy to the equation? Huhn. Strange. We do it all the time.

"How do you end spousal abuse?" "Stop abusing me."

"How do you end work place sexual harassment?" "Stop harassing me."

"How do you end date rape?" "Stop screwing me without consent."

Same issue/solution vagueness, over and over again. Same individuality, over and over again. Same horrific and lasting damage, over and over again.

Race is the only form of abuse where common sense leaves the room.

Race is the only form of abuse where the abused is expected to teach.

Race in the only form of abuse where the solution requires the abused's participation.

Race is the only form of abuse where the abuser is literally on the problem solving committee.

Race is the only form of abuse where the needs of the abuser are of equal importance as the victims.

Race is the only abuse where EMPATHY has shit at to do with the abuse.

A rape victim does not have to receive empathy. A rapist has to not rape. A spouse does not have to teach empathy. A spouse abuser has to just not abuse. A co-worker does not have to appreciate the value of empathy to be safe at work. A workplace harasser has to stop harassing. An incest victim does not have to substitute empathy for self-actualization. A family rapist has to keep it in his pocket. Fuck, a kid on the school yard does not have to do shit all with empathy or anything else. The BULLY HAS TO STOP BULLYING.

If you can understand even one of those, you can understand that ending racism has nothing to do with empathy.

If you can understand even one of those, you can understand that ending racism has to do with one thing and one ONLY.

Racism is ABUSE. Most abuse is ambiguous. Most abuse is the full and complete burden of the abuser no matter who, what, when, where or why.

This is why we die, Trace. This right here – trying to solve atrocities with altruism has never worked in the history of mankind. Not ever.