Justin Ward
1 min readAug 10, 2019

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Who am I racist against? If you’re saying I’m racist against black people, then yes. I will own that. Every white person in America has some degree of racism in them. It’s part and parcel of growing up in a country with a centuries old legacy of white supremacy.

If you’re saying I’m some how racist against white folks, then don’t be ridiculous. I’m white and even if it were possible for a white person to be racist against other white people, I don’t see how an honest and straightforward retelling of things I saw and experienced amounts to an expression of “anti-white racism.”

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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