Letter: What type of racist do I choose to be? - Salt Lake Tribune

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Solving any problem is a three-step process: awareness, acceptance and action. Addicts can’t address their addiction unless they are aware of it, accept it and take action.

So it is with racism. Many think racism is someone else’s problem, not accepting that we may be the problem. We have difficulty being aware that we are racist, let alone accepting it. But as Leonard Pitts stated recently, it is not so much a character defect as the “water in which we swim.” Like a fish, we are not even aware that racism is the water in which we swim.

I recently took a racial bias test. I was disappointed to see that the results indicated that I had “strong racial bias.” It was a test that I couldn’t fool, since it measures metrics of which I am not even aware.

Now that I am aware, and accept that I am a racist, how do I address the problem? What action can I take? Again, as Pitts asked, “What type of racist do I choose to be?”

Do I want to be the overt type, the kind that practices his racism publicly?

Do I want to be the kind that is in denial, that claims that, since I don’t indulge in racial slurs, and even have a black friend, it’s “all good”?

Or do I choose to be actively anti-racist, taking active steps to do so?

We all get to choose.

Bill Forbes, Bountiful

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