Reddit reviews "I'm Not a Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary of Race

Not looking to be superior. It's just a statement that in nearly all cases, when someone prefaces a statement with "Not to be racist," or "I'm not being racist," or "This statement might seem racist but it's not," then the statement that follows after is usually racist. It's a positive correlation, and there are many people that will back that up.

For example: a book about it, another book about it, a rationalwiki article about it, and a Washington Post podcast about it.

I recently read a pretty good book that addresses basically this precise question. Highly recommended.

Side benefit: Helped me more clearly see the benefit of affirmative action.

Piggybacking on /u/haplogreenleaf 's comment, if you're interested in learning more on why this is I'd suggest reading Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power and I'm Not a Racist, But..The Moral Quandary of Race

Fixing these imbalances is the honest to god real question here. What changes can we as a society make to facilitate equality between races. Really tough question. Obama is more the classist type, get people out of the ghetto and you remove the race problem. While others suggest focusing systemic changes based on a race specifically (the problem with this is whites historically don't vote for something that doesn't benefit their worse off).

I'm not a racist, but...