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Well, for the record, I'm half white, half Hispanic, and our family holiday photos look like a flippin' Celebrate Diversity! poster, Spanish and Mexican to Japanese to Nigerian. Not a full-blooded cracker amongst us. So this issue isn't out of left field for me.She handled it absolutely perfectly.
That's because she stayed calm and cool and logical, didn't scream RACIST at the top of her lungs, and didn't lose her shit one bit.
Perfect.
Both "sides" of this issue could learn something from this smart lady.
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Mac you are a fair minded person but I am going to say this to you. Look, whites don't get to determine what is the proper reaction to racism. If someone gets angry and screams racist to high heaven they are not wrong, the racist is. Nobody has to stay calm when hearing that shit. Last, she was on the air, I don't think the response would have been the same had this happened to her in person. I know black women, and that is not something you would be wise to do in their faces.. So don't give me what whites won't listen to because if you think that a people of color must grin and shuffle very time they face racism,. you aren't listening anyway
But to your point, and I do understand your annoyance, it depends on the context to me. It depends on the goal. If I see something broken, my impulse is not to scream about it, but to fix it. I don't think screaming RACIST at every last opportunity is fixing anything. It's just making things worse.
If you're at a point of anger and you want to react like that, that's fine, I get it. But I want to this country to heal. And by the way, this screaming is part of the reason this guy is in the White House. I think this lady's reaction was perfect, because nothing is fixed until we stop screaming.
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This country will not heal as long as whites excuse the continuing racism or the effects of past racist laws and policies. Whites don't get to determine how we react to things and you should not allow whites to fetermine that its not righto scream at them when they continue to scream at you, your relatives and most everyone else in your family if your family is what is described. Screaming isn't what got Trump elected, racism is. Whites who falsely feel they are being discriminated against with no tangible roof of that happening by all metrics that measure such things and that everyone else is racist for calling out the continuing racism of whites People have talked nice and have been patient about this for the better part of 400 years. The only thing that produced were several different changes in the way whites have practiced racism. Doing the same thing and expecting different results has been defined as insanity. So maybe we need to try a different approach. Like not talking nicely about it.
Last people need to stop repeating that lie by whites about people screaming racism about everything. The only people doing that are whites. We call racism out when it happens. So if there are people out there who cannot understand that 400 years if racism might make a few people angry, they don't want to listen anyway. And most certainly they are not concerned about any type of healing.