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Originally Posted by scaeagles
I don't think you are a racist. I don't think that everyone who supports the law is a racist as they are typically portrayed.
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The majority of people who support the law are not racist. However the law carries a not insignificant potential to aggravate incidents of racist behavior, and to be enforced in a way that increases the likelihood of law abiding citizens running into difficulty with legal authorities simply because of their race.
ETA: to complete the thought - while the majority are not "racist", a large portion are ignorant of, or willfully ignoring, the racially charged reality of enforcing the law as written, which may not make them "racist" but does mean they are contributing to a deterioration of racial relations (I hate the term "racial relations" but I can't think of a better way to phrase that right now).