- 31 May 2020 04:24
#15095687
Slavery was only part of the problem. Many countries, sadly, had slavery but the vast majority of them were able to mostly spunge the hate and stigma, at least to a large degree (pockets will exist for a long time).
The issue is not that they had slavery, took it away and now whites feel guilty and blacks feel oppressed. The issue is that long after slavery was outlawed, there was little to no appetite to strife for equality, prosecute assholes that frankly were criminals.
The stench of racism can be felt constantly.
Take for instance, Trump. He could have done his best to de-escalate the situation. Frankly, he could have just shut the fuck up and that would have been fine. Instead, rather than offer an unequivocal, strong reprisal of racism and promess personal interest in the pursue of justice in this and many other cases, he goes on to amplify the tensions by offering quotes/threats from brutal cops... in a case of cop brutality. Tell me that he removed the tweet and offer an appology and went on TV to ask for forgiveness of the pain he caused by tweeting something hurtful? No... Tell me that republicans were uniformly outraged and condemned the president's tweet... no.
No excuses. Racism is flamboyant in this country.
You don't get to fake outrage at black people being "dramatic". Guess what, after centuries of oppression, continuous oppression, after their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers being murdered in cold blood, captured on video with usually bland response (or sometimes non-existent) from law enforcement and the politicians that are SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING THEM pretending that they did not hear.... After all of that, I think they have earned the right to be a bit dramatic and to set a few shit on fire.
Would I prefer they didn't? Sure. But I understand it. I understand it if a mother throws a glass or a dinner plate and breaks it when full of rage if she finds her daughter is doing drugs, or her son was murdered. Consider this the equivalent for a whole community for that glass thrown to the wall.
Frankly, the dismissal of their pain and anguish by people like yourself is just as problematic for the healing of those wounds as their "dramatic reaction" if not much more.
Julian658 wrote:POD:
I am from Latin America. Where I come from we have little racism even though we had slavery.
The white people are not coming to save the black community. The only whites that want to supposedly save the black poor people are condescending racists of low expectations. Racism can only be cured by changing stereotypes. To put yourself in the hands of others will not do the job.
Slavery was only part of the problem. Many countries, sadly, had slavery but the vast majority of them were able to mostly spunge the hate and stigma, at least to a large degree (pockets will exist for a long time).
The issue is not that they had slavery, took it away and now whites feel guilty and blacks feel oppressed. The issue is that long after slavery was outlawed, there was little to no appetite to strife for equality, prosecute assholes that frankly were criminals.
The stench of racism can be felt constantly.
Take for instance, Trump. He could have done his best to de-escalate the situation. Frankly, he could have just shut the fuck up and that would have been fine. Instead, rather than offer an unequivocal, strong reprisal of racism and promess personal interest in the pursue of justice in this and many other cases, he goes on to amplify the tensions by offering quotes/threats from brutal cops... in a case of cop brutality. Tell me that he removed the tweet and offer an appology and went on TV to ask for forgiveness of the pain he caused by tweeting something hurtful? No... Tell me that republicans were uniformly outraged and condemned the president's tweet... no.
No excuses. Racism is flamboyant in this country.
You don't get to fake outrage at black people being "dramatic". Guess what, after centuries of oppression, continuous oppression, after their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers being murdered in cold blood, captured on video with usually bland response (or sometimes non-existent) from law enforcement and the politicians that are SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING THEM pretending that they did not hear.... After all of that, I think they have earned the right to be a bit dramatic and to set a few shit on fire.
Would I prefer they didn't? Sure. But I understand it. I understand it if a mother throws a glass or a dinner plate and breaks it when full of rage if she finds her daughter is doing drugs, or her son was murdered. Consider this the equivalent for a whole community for that glass thrown to the wall.
Frankly, the dismissal of their pain and anguish by people like yourself is just as problematic for the healing of those wounds as their "dramatic reaction" if not much more.