HOW IS RACISM STILL A THING IN 2025?

“I’m terrified of yt people.”

I saw this in a random post on Threads from a young black single mother referring to white people.

As a man who’s been married to a black woman for thirty years, and a father of three mixed-race children, seeing this in 2025 is bizarre to me.
Maybe it’s because I’m Gen X and I remember when racial identity wasn’t hyperfixated on like it is today; I remember when, generally-speaking, we all got along. American society recognized that there was the occasional racist. But when those individuals (or even groups) outed themselves as racist, everyone criticized them and they often faced legal backlash.

This has changed in the last fifteen years, and especially the last ten years. Part of the reason for the return and normalization of racism — and anti-white racism in particular — is because it’s been promoted with virtually no challenges in the education system (college at first, then K-12) and social media. The same people who pushed “race is a social construct” also pushed the idea that minorities can’t be racist.

Newsflash: Anyone can be racist.

Justifying present-day racism by hiding behind past racism performed by dead people is an awful excuse. Becoming the oppressor by claiming to be oppressed is not only intellectually dishonest, it is evil.

And now, a generation has been re-taught racial prejudice by those who couldn’t let their own racism die. It is sad to say that too many people think everyone of a race think, act, and feel the same.

That’s not how genetics work. Or societies for that matter.

We are individuals. We have our own experiences, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. We are not beholden to racial identity. People choose that. There’s a difference between culture and race. And though anyone can choose to dive into their culture, it has never been required. Some people find their own way.

Sometimes through marriage, we learn other cultures and incorporate them into our experiences. That isn’t appropriation; that’s life. When my wife and I started having children, we decided beforehand that we would expose them to black and white culture and let them choose what they wanted to do.

I personally learned that I benefited from getting to know people of all races and cultures. I’ve made many lifelong friends that way. I also learned that fear of other races comes from isolation, stereotypes, and assumptions. We are all human beings. And no race is better or worse than any other. There are so many things we can learn from one another.

“I’m terrified of yt people,” she said. She obviously doesn’t know any.

Divide and conquer is one of the oldest military tactics in the world. And it still works. If you can get people to self-segregate according to racial identity, you have created the foundation for conflict. And you have potentially locked those same people into never being freed from their fear and ignorance. It’s a perpetual nightmare scenario.

“They’re not like us.” “Stay with your own kind.” “I hate (fill-in-the-blank people)!”

A portion of society has tried to forget the Civil Rights Movement and all it accomplished. They say it was a lie; it didn’t solve the problem. They say that the systematic racism always was and always will be here.

They’ve made “systematic racism” a false god that is sustained by perpetual victimhood caused by fictitious oppressor versus oppressed narratives. And just like how racial segregation perpetuates racism and fear, the specter of systematic racism creates an unwinnable scenario.

How can you eliminate systematic racism? It’s everywhere! And with the idea that all white people are inherently racist and evil by their very existence, there’s nothing they can do to change it. So, what are they supposed to do? Die?

Yes. That’s what some people believe.

And what about the evil system that’s racist? Destroy it. Destroy what exactly?

Western Civilization.

And what are you going to replace it with? They haven’t quite worked that answer out yet. Some say communism (because that’s worked so well everywhere it’s been tried) and others say anarchy. Those aren’t great choices.

What this shows me is that this is a simple conflict at its core: Order vs. Chaos

And who represents those forces? God represents Order. And the devil, who has fought against God since the beginning, represents Chaos.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

- Joshua 24: 14-15 (KJV)