Whites are permanently burdened by unconscious racist reflexes

Evidence

Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born writer, makes this point in his powerful book The Hidden Wound: … I am trying to establish the outlines of an understanding of myself in regard to what was fated to be the continuing crisis in my life, the crisis of racial awareness—the sense of being doomed by my history to be, if not always a racist, then a man always limited by the inheritance of racism, condemned to be always conscious of the necessity not to be a racist, to be always dealing deliberately with the reflexes of racism that are embedded in my mind as deeply at least as the language I speak. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 171

Categorization

• XREF: Berry’s framing of racism as involuntary reflexes parallels the Milano-Bicocca neural data — mind and culture converging on the same claim.