forty_three
Stance: Goofy
Ordinary people know more types of people, know more people's experiences now. There's more opportunity for empathy, more opportunity to break through that racist programming and indoctrination. White people are far more likely to be exposed to both the humanity and struggle of Black people now. It's cause for hope.
As white people (like me, if that wasn't obvious, even though I've tried to conceal my identity with this capybara), we're still going to encounter areas where our understanding falls short, where the asks of Black people feel immediately unreasonable or bizarre, but if we keep our minds and hearts open, and pointedly and intentionally get past those initial responses to really hear and understand, we can accomplish the unified world we want.
Like I said a while back, it's the beauty of the Internet and young people. For everything that sucks about the Internet giving people the chance to self-segregate in their echo chambers and not face reality, you can't escape the fact that the first generation of people who grew up with the ability to connect with people from everywhere on earth and realize for themselves that we're not all that different is coming into their own. Now that generation has it's own kids. In the future what unites us will have a far greater pull than what divides us. And future generations will look at this as the moment when it finally started to break through.
The problem is the death throes of the current powers that be desperately trying to hold onto power. Could get ugly. We already see it.