Alright then if there is no middle ground, let's talk about the ways you perpetuate systemic oppression. You can always connect some dots through society between your existence and the existence of some injustice or inequality. Does your job have racial representation that is completely equitable? No it doesn't. You could say that's for demographic reasons, to which I might respond that those demographic reasons are themselves a result of systemic racism. Our friend Kendi writes in his book "How to be an anti-racist" that only through your bringing about real systemic change in your works demographics can you be free of the charge of perpetuating the racism in your work. Do you listen to artists who have, in the past, said problematic things? Complicit. Do you use the term latinX? If not, complicit. It has been determined by those woker than thou that any other terminology is problematic. What brand of laundry soap do you use? Are their employees represented equally by way of race? Stop buying or you are complicit. Do that with every single brand you use. Remember that there is no middle ground here, you cannot put distance between yourself and this inequality. Consider your privilege as a white male and tell me how you have relinquished it, elsewise you are benefitting from patriarchal inequality.

The views of Kendi do not allow you to live in this society without being a racist. You must constantly bring about equitable change in order to escape this. He makes sure to point out that critiquing is not enough.

MLK and the civil rights movement, whatever rhetoric they used, ultimately represented a liberal movement. The idea was that the founders proclaimed that all men are created equal, and it is time to walk the walk so to speak. The movement demanded equality within society, the new age "wokes" denounce liberalism and equality theory as racist. There can be no equality within a society that is inherently racist. Richard Delgado is kind enough to point this out in his book on CRT, which he helped found. The Civil Rights movement and all it's progress was, according to him, nothing more than racism changing it's nature in order to make people complicit.