Please see my other responses. I'm not dismissing the fact that racism exists, and I've personally been the target of it dozens of times. I have an issue with the notion that it defines and circumscribes our experience as individuals, or that it should be grounds for declaring our identity or the presumed lived experience of others, because that's not a path out of it and it's immensely destructive to the project of equality to create categories of victimhood based on skin color. One of the things I find most racist and offensive is other people telling me how I should feel or what I've experienced because of my race. We've gone back fifty years in the name of "equity" which is, substantively, white people's way of continuing to divide people into racial groups while acting holy about it.