We need to stick together! Put your burden down! Here is our chance to forget about skin color. It does not matter what you are if you are under the yoke of tyranny.

We all know that terrible things have happened in the past. We need to do better, but lumping every white person into a negative category *because their skin is white* and asking them to forget that they are white is nonproductive.

All our skin color is now BLUE.

White people, in the aggregate, tend to vote Republican; particularly white women.

The OP found a single line on the internet, and expanded it to include several other categories. All of that is of interest, particularly gay rights which Trump has enabled to be trashed. The juxtaposition of the reversals still contain a racist remark about white skin. There is just no way around it.

All I'm saying is hey, let's include everyone in our lives and protect each other. Maybe we won't have to pretend we are something else in order to understand why giving up prejudice against what amounts to simple differences in our individual beings would be a good thing.

We are ALL going to be slaves to Trump if we don't defeat him.

I have watched my individual attitudes erode throughout the last 2 - 3 years to where I am experiencing the same sad-but-true anger against those that voted for Trump as everyone else. But, it has nothing to do with the color of their skin. It has to do with their ignorance.

Where did you get your stat that the aggregate of white people tend to vote Republican?? In particularly, white women??

Race strongly correlates with voting preferences in election after election. White voters tend to vote Republican. Black voters overwhelmingly do not.

It's needlessly divisive and counterproductive

This country was built on white supremacy. Recognizing that is vital if we want lasting change.

"lumping every white person into a negative category"?

It's saying "imagine what you would do if you were not white". It's not making any claims about "all white people act in a certain way or believe a certain thing".

You could just as easily say "what would you do if you were white in a country where the majority of people, and almost all of those in power, were not white?"

It's a question about the power dynamics not the specific qualities of any particular race.

It absolutely implies a negative viewpoint of white skin. It is just as racist as anything said against black skin, or any other color skin.

Prejudice is a two-way street. To hold a prejudice like this is to carry a burden that you don't need. All humans would be healthier and happier if they would lay this burden down and give it up. Just leave it by the side of the road and move on.

We are watching the destruction of our country, a country that has never been perfect, but we had made inroads on this issue and were at least a little bit better. Along comes Trump, and now the dialogue is this dismal, 40s and 50s-style crapola. I submit that the push back against this should include an END to all this ignorant posturing between the races.

You don't need to imagine anything against yourself. Just imagine that your neighbor will help you the same way that you will help him. We will stick together no matter what.

I'm not saying to forget the wrongs done. But continuing this generations-long hatred is not productive. It's better to include everyone positively in the trenches.

It's not.

No. It recognizes that if a white person votes, they're more likely to vote Republican. If a black person votes, they're overwhelmingly more likely to vote Democrat. That observation is not racist.

But how easy that sounds! Unfortunately, race-based prejudice is baked into the foundation of this country even before it was a country, and simply deciding to not "hold prejudice" anymore does nothing to actively dismantle the systems that sustain those oppressions.

You keep talking like this "posturing" and "crapola" is balanced, equal, a both-sides type of thing, when in reality, the United States is a white hegemony. Refusing to acknowledge that helps no one.

Trying to understand other people's experiences is an important part of building empathy. Telling people to imagine their neighbor will help them is, in many cases, simply insulting.

Again, recognizing that white people tend to vote Republican is not hatred.