Asclepias
Diamond Member
The part you highlighted was a reference to the lazy white people that are upset over Black progress. You have to read between the lines on that one...Whites in poverty still have white privilege. Basically you are lazy if youre a poor white.Land, money, resources, labor?ssss
OH DO TELL! What did my ancestors steal, navel gazer?Your ancestors already got their free shit by stealing. They built the system which allows you to benefit from their thievery.
Land, money, resources, labor etc
Do tell! What land? I grew up poverty, so what money and labor?
And that means we have to not only question the world as it is, and stand up for those African Americans who haven’t been so lucky -- because, yes, you've worked hard, but you've also been lucky. That's a pet peeve of mine: People who have been successful and don’t realize they've been lucky. That God may have blessed them; it wasn’t nothing you did. So don’t have an attitude. But we must expand our moral imaginations to understand and empathize with all people who are struggling, not just black folks who are struggling -- the refugee, the immigrant, the rural poor, the transgender person, and yes, the middle-aged white guy who you may think has all the advantages, but over the last several decades has seen his world upended by economic and cultural and technological change, and feels powerless to stop it. You got to get in his head, too.
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