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In reply to the discussion: White People Think One Black Person's Success Proves Racism Is Over [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And now that I was, I can see that they were deliberately trying to tie the female worker's actions/words to the tagline for the snack. So they were making her 'sweet and salty' - salty towards the suit coworker, sweet to the nerd. And even though she'd been up all night working on the presentation, she looked pretty fresh - I guess they didn't really want to have a bedraggled spokesperson.
At any rate, I approach sociological issues the same way I do any other science these days - the more I know, the more I know how much more there is of which I'm ignorant. And when there are things I simply cannot live, I have to learn from those who do live them.
America has kicked the race can down the road endlessly, and the longer we fail to act to fix the structural racism inherent in the systems around us, the more painful it will be for everyone when fixes finally do arrive. Indeed, I see most of the 'tea party'/gun rights crossover lunacy as the product of unaddressed and coddled racism.