I'm NOT A Racist (I Just Won't Do Anything Against It)

It is not easy to even begin to quantify what constitutes just reparations for horrors such as slavery in America, apartheid in South Africa and the Nazi Holocaust in Europe; yet that is the ethical question raised when the past pushes its way, uncomfortably, into the present. We cannot simply consign these questions to history, draw a thick line and move on with the promise of "never again".

The answer is not about being individually responsible, through our genes, but collectively accountable for the structural inequalities that have passed down through generations to shape today's world. It is one thing to be universalist, anti-racist and pro-human rights when looking back, but it takes a more reflexive attitude to history to account for the structure of the present through past wrongs, and our place within that historical context. 

A translation for whites who don't care if I'm blue, green, or purple: 

 It's not enough to simply be "against racism". 

 If you look at that previous sentence you'll realize why.

It means nothing's changed, politically, but white's words:

It's blacks who are stuck, alone, doing the nation's heavy lifting,…