Racist White people do not want to define racial hierarchy or policies that yield racial injustices as racist. To do so would be to define their ideas and policies as racist. Instead, they define policies leading to justice as racist. Ideas not centering White lives are racist. Beleaguered racist White people who can’t imagine their lives not being the focus of any movement respond to “Black Lives Matter” with “All Lives Matter.” Embattled police officers who can’t imagine losing their right to profile and brutalize respond with “Blue Lives Matter.”
