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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
The problem is, for things to change, white people have to give something up. No one wants to. Everyone recognizes that. I sure as hell understand it. But if you built this country on the backs of slaves, then set them free, then passed some laws for civil rights, then instituted (and subsequently destroyed) remedial programs like affirmative action to repair past injustice while isolating blacks in ghettos so you don’t have to see them, while glorifying gangster stereotypes by having white-controlled record labels push a certain type of rap consumed by whites in the suburbs who can’t get enough, feeding off of that fear in movie depictions and local news bullshit, and exaggerating and flat-out lying about crack (and crack babies), while ignoring the effects meth has had on white communities, and crafting drug laws using that fear you’ve created to win political points with the voters you’ve scared while taking cash for the commoditization of incarceration of black men, you need to understand that the position you enjoy relative to the black people (even though you have had no personal participation in the deprivation of rights and opportunity) cannot be viewed in a vacuum. That’s what white people do (even good ones). White people have to give that view up.
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When you say "white people have to give something up" for things to change, are you referring only to the view that you refer to at the end? Or are you saying that the change you are calling really requires a sacrifice from white people?
If you mean the latter, I would challenge it. Maybe affirmative action policies mean white people give something up, but overall I would say that white people should realize that we have a lot to gain by curing this nation of its legacy of racism. I mean, if you offered me a choice between what we have now, and what they had in the south in the 1950s, or the 1850s, I'd choose what we have now in a heartbeat. Part of the problem is that people with the upper hand in an unfair society see a zero-sum game.
If you mean the former, well..... never mind.
