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Yellow posted...

See, the more people downplay it the more you drive people to have more Conservative views.

If your boss is a black woman and she hates you because you're a white man, it doesn't matter how unlikely that is, you're just as screwed as you would be if your boss was a white man that hated you because you're a black woman. Both of the bosses are equally terrible people.

The thing people tend to overlook is that it's a power distribution thing more so than a sheer numbers thing. Racism from a white dictatorial regime in a primarily-black country is going to have more of an impact than equivalent racism from the black citizenry would have. The other thing people forget is that this principle scales down. As you said, it doesn't matter what the power distribution is like in the country as a whole, racism from one's boss can make one's life miserable. It's easy to look at how predominantly white America's citizenry and power distribution are and assume from there that everyone else is going to be disadvantaged, but that's not necessarily true at all if you focus on smaller communities.
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