&gt; No, not talking or thinking about race leads to erasure, which is another form of racism.<p>Erasure seems to be jargon with no widely accepted meaning outside of social justice. For now I will stick to what I perceive to be the average of the various dictionary definitions of racism. By that meaning, not talking about or thinking about ethnicity is definitely not racism.<p>&gt; if black children only ever see white people winning Oscars…they won’t believe that they themselves could win one ... Having visible role models is important.<p>I think you&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s important to have visible role models with the same ethnicity and&#x2F;or sex, and&#x2F;or whatever other bodily attribute we&#x27;re focusing on at the moment. But why would anyone think that unless they already have racist and&#x2F;or sexist beliefs?