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It seems as though EVERYTHING in the news or on television is about race now. You can't escape it. Even during the weekend golf tournament, most of the commercials had some racial theme or had special segments talking about what the PGA was doing for minorities.
Is anyone else tired of this "woke" barrage of racial oriented information?
First day of school, one of my kids' teachers opened up with a comment about race, and persisted with that line of discussion for several minutes. In our multi-racial household we don't lead with race. We don't make racial identifiers the first thing, and use that as our interpretive lens for life. Yes, I am fatigued about race being artificially injected into every interaction. It drives people apart, not together.
For society to function, people need to find things in common. If they keep focusing on skin color--the most immutable, external factor--and not on commonalities...where do they think this will go? Will people be drawn together? Or will they revert into their tribes? I predict the latter. America is regressing at an appalling speed.
That helps, but it were only confined to television. Its on billboards, outside and inside businesses, all levels of the education system are rife with the propaganda...
People get played to divide themselves and the ones leading the protests are getting payrolled to do it and the others just get suckered into it hoping for a payoff or they have nothing better to do. You protest, you're either a loser or you're a sucker.
I agree, and there is too much identity politics around these days. Plus there is only one race on earth which is the human race. Why can't people see each other as fellow humans and equals?
It's been this way since the 60's, and current events have emboldened the "movement".
Read the book, "The Age of Entitlement" by Christopher Caldwell. It explains how we got from there to here.
I totally am beyond sick and tired of being lectured, preached to, made aware of, etc., regarding race.
We are all humans, we can all get along and most of us do. Who needs to be reminded every time they turn that black lives matter? I see signs popping up everywhere. Do we really need to be reminded or are the people that are posting them just virtue signalling?
Most people still live their lives judging people by their conduct not their skin colour.
I'm so tired of it.
Now when I see a BLM sign I want to run up and add a quick "O" to it so it reads "Black Olives Matter".
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