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Interesting reading. Folks should challenge themselves to answer the questions (perhaps within your own minds) following each of the quoted passages.
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"What they are affected by are attacks on their own character. To my aunt, the suggestion that “people in The North are racist” is an attack on her as a racist. She is unable to differentiate her participation within a racist system (upwardly mobile, not racially profiled, able to move to White suburbs, etc.) from an accusation that she, individually, is a racist."
- John Metta
What does the word "racist" mean in the quote? Is there a distinction between beneficiaries, apologists, and champions of a racist system? What change do we wish to bring about by addressing ourselves to racism in this manner?
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What would it mean to not "let it happen" in this context?
That was a great read. But it was kind of long and most CD posters don't read for comprehension. I'll share it though with a few groups I'm a part of, thanks for the link!
This part was very interesting IMO:
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The entire discussion of race in America centers around the protection of White feelings.
Ask any Black person and they’ll tell you the same thing. The reality of thousands of innocent people raped, shot, imprisoned, and systematically disenfranchised are less important than the suggestion that a single White person might be complicit in a racist system.
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IMO, that would just give the majority a reason to ignore the issues of the minority. Removing categorizations based on skin color in this country will do nothing to stop the perceptions of people based on race.
Ignoring something never makes it go away completely.
That was a great read. But it was kind of long and most CD posters don't read for comprehension. I'll share it though with a few groups I'm a part of, thanks for the link!
This part was very interesting IMO:
I think a particularly provocative sentence was:
Racism is so deeply embedded in this country not because of the racist right-wing radicals who practice it openly, it exists because of the silence and hurt feelings of liberal America.
As a white, somewhat liberal American, I have to admit that I benefit from White Privelege, while at the same time would deny being personally racist.
I don't understand that statement in relation to the OP topic.
It means the only thing that matters in Black History is what happened between those two dates. Nothing before matters and nothing after matters.
Just stay between the lines and all is good.
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