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Sprigle is guilty of the common blunder of a great number of other northern whites. About wanting to understand, about caring enough and being compassionate. Gaines has also found, in studying men like Sprigle and Griffin, that engaging with racism on an interpersonal level is much different than recognizing it as a structural issue. Though Sprigle provided coverage of racism in the South, he failed to cover racism in the North.

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There were no black doctors until , only two black teachers in integrated schools, and numerous instances of segregation in public pools, theaters and hotels. But the white media seemed disinterested in covering that discrimination. There were also a limited number of white southern journalists talking about issues of racism and injustice at the time.

One of them was Hodding Carter Sr. Still, Carter spoke out against the violence of lynching and the racial discrimination African-Americans faced. But by focusing on the South, Carter felt Sprigle was singling out the region for a problem that plagued all parts of America. What does that mean, and what does empathy look like? Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of empathetic racial impersonation--white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy.

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How is affirmative action anything other than reverse racism? Why shouldn't I be proud to be white if someone else is proud to be black? Were you struck by the reality that infiltrating this world would've been nearly impossible for you at almost any other time in American history? You would've been putting your life at risk. This experiment was completely a product of the digital age. Even when the reverse was done in the book Black Like Me there's always that chance you could be discovered, but here that's extremely unlikely unless someone is a hacker.

The Internet is sort of what a car is to road rage. The glass and steel create this bubble of perceived safety, which amplifies people's rage, but keeps them from having to deal with the consequences of that rage. There is an honesty that is exposed in the process. You talk about "breaking out of the digital divide". Technology offers us the chance to connect with new people and ideas, but you don't believe it's a reliable tool for combating racism. James Baldwin accurately diagnosed the white culture's need for shadow projection on to black bodies as being the roots of racism.

A smartphone and an iPad won't address this need. All they do is reinforce our wants and desires, so if these desires are immature, we never grow. Racism is a comfy cage, and technology hasn't provided the key for getting out. We need to have courageous, face-to-face conversations with difficult people outside of the security of our laptops. You talk about racists with something approaching compassion. Does that suggest you're hopeful about our chances of defeating racism?

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Just because this experience made me more compassionate doesn't mean I'm more hopeful. My compassion comes from knowing these people are still so vulnerable to social programming. But the social forces that make racism commonplace aren't necessarily going away. Look at what happened in Charlottesville, for example. How did a brand-new generation of white guys get that hateful?

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They never joined their dad in a lynch mob. They never smelled the burning flesh of a negro in a town square or lived in Jim Crow America. And yet, they still adopted those hateful attitudes. That doesn't make me hopeful at all. Sign into your NZ Herald. On the go and no time to finish that story right now? Your News is the place for you to save content to read later from any device.

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