I'm not racist, but...
I'm not racist, but... is a commonly used phrase, which often precedes a racist argument and provides a "veneer of political correctness". Interpretations. The preface has been described as "hypocritical" and "apologetic"; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone Forman argued that it is used by "the new racists, all the nice Whites". Alana Lentin, in a op-ed for ABC, cited the phrase as an example of "how denying racism reproduces its violence". Deutsche Welle's, Torsten Landsberg and Rachel Stewart stated that the refrain is "usually followed by an opinion that belies at best  ignorance and at worst a deep-seated prejudice or even racially fueled hatred". Ibram X. Kendi felt that its usage is an ineffective means of combating racism. Frequency. Baugh (1991) found that when questioned as to why the term African-American should or should not be used, respondents repeatedly prefaced answers with "I'm not racist, but...". Brown (2006) noted that Lancastrian interviewees uneased with the influx of racial minorities often utilised the phrase. According to Simon Goodman, of Coventry University, the phrase encapsulates "a major feature of talk about immigration [in Britain]", that being "the repeated denial that opposition  to it is racist". Edwy Plenel ascribed the saying to the "average Frenchman"; Mahfoud Bennoune expressed a similar opinion, exclaiming that "The typical French racist attitude is expressed in this manner, "I'm not racist, but I find that the Algerians are the rabble that must be expelled; the syphilis that arises like arrows". Former American white supremacist, Derek Black explained that he wished to recruit people to the movement who "start a sentence by saying, I'm not racist, but. And if they've said that, they're almost there". "The Irish Times"' Donald Clarke noted that Halle Bailey 's casting in The Little Mermaid "reveal[ed] the usual unconvincing qualification". The Twitter account YesYoureRacist seeks to condemn "casual racism on Twitter" and "retweet[s] everyday users who say: "I'm not racist but ..." followed by something, well, racist".