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Fact: 15 major ethnic groups in America; only whins about "racisim." Just sayin'. (no article)
Maybe these thoughts should factor into your assumption:
It matters little that every objective study and survey for the past two decades has consistently shown the gaping racial disparities in health care, education spending, the criminal justice system, employment, the wealth gap, and poverty between blacks and whites has either stagnated or widened. Or that blacks are still largely the invisible men and women in executive management spots at the Fortune 500 corporations. It matters even less that the textbook definition of racism explicitly means not just an individual's thinking or expressing racially skewed bias and animus toward another group, but having the actual power to exert control and dominance through the mechanisms of law, public policy, and economic dominance over that group. This is the defining point between an individual's personal prejudices, and there are few individuals who don't harbor some personal prejudice toward another group, and having the actual power to exercise that prejudice against another group that is deliberately missed or distorted in the futile exercise of trying to say who is a racist and what makes them a racist.
In my experience, a lot of southern white people are racist. I still have white friends because it is silly to decide that all white people are racist.. As a matter of fact, the church I attend has predominantly white members. I don't pass judgement on an entire people and neither should you. You are debating with a black woman who likes all people and who doesn't falsely accuse people of racism. I agree with 99% of the article. Your theory needs a little work.
There is something wrong in continually looking for someone to blame, which seems to be at the center of current racism seen in the black community. That is not to say that they have no reason for their complaints, but, we need transcend skin color; we, as a nation of "ethnics," are bigger than our individual race. To argue that "only blacks understand black issues," is a course that will continue to divide, aside from the fact that such a statement is neither logical or a part of any potential resolution.
I don't know if this is an important considerastion, but I downloaded this quote from a study on black student reaction to whites. Sorry, I did not document the quote:
"“Blacks sometimes strategically imply that they have connections to whites in an effort to increase their probability of success in the corporate world. Doing so may be a means of distancing themselves from negative group stereotypes or perhaps a ‘disarming mechanism’ to enhance their acceptability in the eyes of white employers or colleagues."
If a pretense at intra-racial (?) exchange, is used only to further black opportunities with no thought for actually using whites as members of the same community of folks as belongs to blacks, asians, the Irish, and so on, black societal isolation will continue to be a problem. Lose the skin color and get on with being a fellow American !!!
Maybe these thoughts should factor into your assumption:
ReplyDeleteIt matters little that every objective study and survey for the past two decades has consistently shown the gaping racial disparities in health care, education spending, the criminal justice system, employment, the wealth gap, and poverty between blacks and whites has either stagnated or widened. Or that blacks are still largely the invisible men and women in executive management spots at the Fortune 500 corporations. It matters even less that the textbook definition of racism explicitly means not just an individual's thinking or expressing racially skewed bias and animus toward another group, but having the actual power to exert control and dominance through the mechanisms of law, public policy, and economic dominance over that group. This is the defining point between an individual's personal prejudices, and there are few individuals who don't harbor some personal prejudice toward another group, and having the actual power to exercise that prejudice against another group that is deliberately missed or distorted in the futile exercise of trying to say who is a racist and what makes them a racist.
In my experience, a lot of southern white people are racist. I still have white friends because it is silly to decide that all white people are racist.. As a matter of fact, the church I attend has predominantly white members. I don't pass judgement on an entire people and neither should you. You are debating with a black woman who likes all people and who doesn't falsely accuse people of racism. I agree with 99% of the article. Your theory needs a little work.
ReplyDeleteThere is something wrong in continually looking for someone to blame, which seems to be at the center of current racism seen in the black community. That is not to say that they have no reason for their complaints, but, we need transcend skin color; we, as a nation of "ethnics," are bigger than our individual race. To argue that "only blacks understand black issues," is a course that will continue to divide, aside from the fact that such a statement is neither logical or a part of any potential resolution.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this is an important considerastion, but I downloaded this quote from a study on black student reaction to whites. Sorry, I did not document the quote:
ReplyDelete"“Blacks sometimes strategically imply that they have connections to whites in an effort to increase their probability of success in the corporate world. Doing so may be a means of distancing themselves from negative group stereotypes or perhaps a ‘disarming mechanism’ to enhance their acceptability in the eyes of white employers or colleagues."
If a pretense at intra-racial (?) exchange, is used only to further black opportunities with no thought for actually using whites as members of the same community of folks as belongs to blacks, asians, the Irish, and so on, black societal isolation will continue to be a problem. Lose the skin color and get on with being a fellow American !!!