We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don't see the programming element. I see people observing that blacks are often treated as second class citizens and just assuming that's how society works.

How is that not programming?

There's no sensible white person who'll argue with the statement, "It's easier to be white, and you've all kinds of advantages over blacks."

Perhaps, but if so, there are lots of unsensible white people out there.

Where I think the conversation goes sideways is when the suggestion is made that a white person is complicit in this inequity.

Or we white people can try to get over our fragility and accept, yeah, we are complicit. We try not to be, but we are. We do book problem harm, even when we're trying like hell to minimize it.

But if the conversation focuses on fixing the inequity, there's no reason to get bogged down in according blame or complicity.

If we can't name the problem - that white supremacy is a system that we all participate in and those of us who are white benefit from - how can we have any conversation about how to solve it?

Those people at the Trump rallies? They think they're the victims.