Racism is Often the Lowest Common Denominator

Sometimes when you eliminate everything else, it's the only thing left.

Photo by Yasin Yusuf on Unsplash

If any good has come out of the Trump era, it is that racism Black people have always known existed is out in the open for all to see.

When I write about the subtleties of anti-Black racism in everyday life, more than one of my former readers describes it as “selling race,” as though profit is my only motivation. Ironicall…