Racism is one of those ugly stories that gets passed along. It isn’t a choice. We don’t get rid of racism by attacking the racist. He doesn’t believe he is racist. He believes the stories: Black people are not intelligent, Indians are drunks, Mexicans are violent, Arabs are terrorists, Chinese are good at math, white people are innocent. Racism is the story we tell ourselves and each other about race. If you believe any story about race, regardless of whether it is a good story or a bad one— you are a racist. Racism is nothing but story— pure story— no matter who tells it.
- From The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, pg. 56-57
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