‘Racism’ and the Unexamined White Mind
Why are so many people so afraid of a six-letter word?
8 min readJun 29, 2018
About nine months ago, I wrote a Medium essay titled “Why I’m Done Blacksplaining Racism to Gay White Men.” Nearly five months later, I wrote another essay, for Queerty, titled “Dear white gays: Can you please stop whitesplainin’ your racism to me?”.