I honestly don’t want to know (nor do I care) what’s in the hearts of white people.
First of all, it’s none of my business.
Secondly, both science and faith traditions would suggest that my own motivations are often conveniently hidden from my own conscious thoughts.
Finally, it is ultimately a waste of everyone’s good time to investigate.
But the evidence is indicated in their actions time and again. In this instance, voting.
“But then I remembered who we are, and how not once since the Voting Rights Act passed has a majority of us voted for a presidential candidate who supported the immeasurably better future that it ushered in, or the many better futures it would still no doubt have delivered.
I remembered that we are white people, and that there is nothing — absolutely, positively nothing — that we aren’t willing to go without if it means Black people go without more.” – Peter Birkenhead
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