Woodznutz
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Not me, my hands are clean (although I am guilty of 'benign neglect').You create black problems with your racism.
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Not me, my hands are clean (although I am guilty of 'benign neglect').You create black problems with your racism.
How about ALL the native American tribes? No member of any other tribe had any rights, including the right to stay alive. The simple truth that you always deny is that all throughout human history, the dominant group sets the rules, and they always favor the dominant group.Show us a system created by other races that gave them preferences and has excluded others at any time in American history
For some reason my ancestors decided to leave Europe and immigrate to the United States. I am damn glad they did.How Racism Hurts White People Too
Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive.
Susana Rinderle, MA, ACC, Contributor
Imagine you work hard your whole life: at school, work and home. You win some and you lose some, and at times it feels like there’s more losing than winning. Life’s not easy, but you hang in there and follow most of the rules. Some people are less kind than others, and your interactions with teachers, coworkers, bosses, store clerks and bureaucrats can be challenging. Like most people you know, you do all right, but sometimes struggle to pay bills, find a decent place to live, put your kids in a decent school, and get your basic needs met. You see less deserving folks get rewards or perks you don’t. You worry about the future.
And then someone says you have “white privilege.”
I get it. I’m White. Growing up with three darker-skinned family members and mostly “minority” classmates, I hated racism. I thought it meant meanness and abuse directed towards people of color, particularly Blacks, and as a teen I vowed to do my part to stop it. I bristled at the suggestion that I contributed to racism or benefitted from so-called “privilege” just because I was White. What a load of crap! I was a conscientious, empathetic person with multicolored friends. I went out of my way to treat everyone with respect and dignity, even advocate for equality. I worked my butt off in challenging social and financial circumstances to achieve a great deal. To suggest I hadn’t earned it fairly was deeply insulting. To say I got unearned advantages sounded like a copout from lazy complainers.
Eventually, I learned that my well-intended understanding of racism was woefully superficial and incomplete. I learned that I was blind to much of what was going on around me, because I’m White. I also learned a dirty secret about racism: It hurts White people too.
Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive – how to live in multiple worlds, speak multiple languages and quickly navigate complex realities. It coddles us by making us too fragile to fully hear, understand and receive what people of color are saying, much less take responsibility for our part. It makes us too fragile to talk with people or color in any way that doesn’t meet our standards of comfort and familiarity, much less tolerate being in groups where we are the racial minority.
How Racism Hurts White People Too
Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive.www.huffpost.com
Susan Rinderle is right.. I've seen some of this and what she says and she is absolutely correct.
This, especially American white culture does them more harm than anything they imagine coming from whatever perceived threats some whites have concocted.
Sadly there are black people help perpetuate this lifestyle of denial.
We do things like tell them nothing is their fault and that white racism is not a problem. That all the deficits we were born into were self inflicted..
“Racism skews our sense of reality. It damages our humanity. It makes us weak.”-Susan Rinderle
For some reason my ancestors decided to leave Europe and immigrate to the United States. I am damn glad they did.
I was watching a commercial for a charity the other day that showed a mother in Africa getting foul water for her family in a bucket from a polluted stream.. If you sent money, it would go to providing clean water for the people in her area of Africa.
If I was that woman I would be wishing my ancestors had been slaves and I was in the U.S. where I would have clean water, electricity, health care and live in a home with AC and a fifty inch TV. I doubt if she can even imagine such a lifestyle.
I understand that life is far from perfect for minorities in the United States and there is no doubt that racism still exists, but things can and are being improved. We have a way to go but we also have came a long way.
We don’t realize just how lucky we are to have good quality water in most cities in our nation.Clean water systems for Africans and for native Americans are two of my charities.
Show us a system created by other races that gave them preferences and has excluded others at any time in American history
maybe because theres 6 times more of us?Whites do all those things. There is a reason why whites commit far more suicides and have more alcohol and chemically dependent people than everybody else..
Example of #2
you realize the party you vote for is made up of majority racist white men, right?You see, this is the problem yoou raciists have.. You think a black person has to be unhappy because they oppose your bs.. I would be unhappy if I was like Clarence Thomas.. Nothing makes me happier than busting racists like you. And that chip on my shoulder thing, LOL! I'm just not the black man to grin and smile with racists.. My life has been great, you are the one iin misery
White Liberal Democrats, what can I say?
Really? Pot meet Kettle lol.To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.-James A. Baldwin
You guys make stuff up to be mad about, so don't tell me about angry..
Another example. Bill Maher is FOS. No black person looks for racism and whites who are racists think that what they believe is normal and not racist. I'm black, left or right has nothing to do with this.Really? Pot meet Kettle lol.
I'll paraphrase Bill Mahr, the left look for racism to fight than fight racism. That is all you do IM2.