I don’t exist. I am silenced. I am insignificant. I am minor. I don’t count. My experiences don’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Nothing matters.

If you would like to see an article that talks about how Americans view racism and how that very article indicates a racist institution, this is the article for you.

On its surface, it talks about a poll conducted for CNN about how serious a problem racial bias is in the United States. And then the article only discusses racial relations between whites and blacks. There are no mention of Asians. There are no mention of Hispanics except in relation to whites, i.e., “non-hispanic whites”. A highlight of this article says:

Only a few of either race say they are racially biased themselves.

Yes, because there are only two races. There are only two major ethic groups affected by racism in the United States, and the one other that is mentioned is in relation to the first! What about biracial people? What about everyone else in this fucking country, because all of us, not just the whites and the blacks, are affected when racism permeates things like the media?

The irony of this article would make me laugh if it didn’t really make me want to cry.