Equalizing meanness to all groups negates accumulated targeting against specific groups

Evidence

Here, curiously, the claim to equalize meanness serves to negate, in two related ways. It is a negation, first and obviously, of the specific wrong – racism – directed at this target. And it is a failure to recognize, to comprehend, the ways in which traditional targets of racism – almost invariably shades of black-brown, or black-associated people – are targeted over and over. It fails to consider how this particular targeting at this time reinforces the accumulated targeting (both historically and contemporarily), exacerbates the vulnerability, reiterates the charge of inferiorization, of exclusion and excludability, concretizes and cements in place again and again the targeted group’s or individual’s marginalization. That’s in fact how everyday racism works, as Philomena Essed has demonstrated so effectively. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1793