William Spivey
1 min readDec 3, 2023

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"There is nothing to deny, slavery, racism, redlining, and the creation of codified, systemized, and institutionalized racism is real --but also easy to explain when you realize these ideologies are based on the fallacies of a monolithic and segregated existence. Proof of racism and the history of racism and all that does not prove the existence of race or color... and thinking so is a fundamental attribution error."

The quote you referred to was written by Ronald Judy not myself but I agree with it wholeheartedly. The quote from your response I read as saying that there's no such thing as continuing systemic racism though you acknowledge racism once existed. If you were familiar with my writing, you'd know I say race and in particular whiteness wasn't a thing until Bacon's Rebellion which created the need to stratify the lower classes to keep them from joining forces again. You also suggest I don't talk to people who disagree with me which I do all the time. Some even convince me of their point of view. But mostly those who disagree are only willing to talk at me without listening which seems very miuch like you.

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William Spivey
William Spivey

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