“This is not who we are” “No. It IS who we are”

There have been way too many situations where white folks do something racist, embarrassing, violent — white baseball fans calling Black players racist slurs, openly chanting white supremacist ideas in crowds, storming the US Capitol, killing people of color, mass shooting even other white people, committing other acts of terrorism, lynching Black people because they “looked at someone the wrong way”, etc.

These acts are frustrating, but what I also find frustrating is the chorus of white people who say things along the lines of “this is not who we…