As a middle aged white man, with all that white-person-among-white-people credibility, I consider it my part time job to be up to date on the mass of science about systemic racism. Not having skin in the game (so to speak) I can sometimes take a small chip out of the Great Wall of Ignorance.
The more I hear about the weariness of POC trying to explain, for the 10,000th time, about what racism is and its foundational place in our society, the more motivated I get.
I know I have bugged the shit out of a few people, but fuck it, there’s a job to be done. No expectation of medals for this — if you are competing in the high jump you don’t get points for walking around on level ground.
On the subject of racism I find that most white people are like goldfish — they don’t know they are underwater and their memories only go about 3 seconds into the past. So, fellow white people, own it, study history as written by people on the shitty end of the stick, study the science, and be a pain in the ass at parties and family gatherings. It’s really the very least we can do.