#2

Today marked the second time I’ve been surfing the net and happened upon a racist website.

We all wear masks, minorities and marginalized people are acutely aware of this. If you are a regular white guy chances are that your sister knows way more about this than you ever really could. Women develop mechanisms to deal with everyday life like avoiding eye contact with strangers or making sure they don’t have to walk home alone at night and that is normal for them.

The thing is we all have spaces in order to be ourselves and when we happen on to things such as racist websites when we are trying to find out when Labour Day is then we have been caught with our masks down and this thing that we guard against has entered our homes, even if it is only for a moment and even if it is in this very passive form.