If you don't believe in (recognize) white privilege why the fuck are you on a Democratic Forum?

[freshwest]

157. You got to the heart of the matter. Here's more like what you said so well here:

Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.

When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.

Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.

White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there’s a reaction, a backlash.

The North’s victory in the Civil War did not bring peace. Instead, emancipation brought white resentment that the good ol’ days of black subjugation were over. Legislatures throughout the South scrambled to reinscribe white supremacy and restore the aura of legitimacy that the anti-slavery campaign had tarnished. Lawmakers in several states created the Black Codes, which effectively criminalized blackness, sanctioned forced labor and undermined every tenet of democracy. Even the federal authorities’ promise of 40 acres — land seized from traitors who had tried to destroy the United States of America — crumbled like dust...

Much more at the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html

Found this through a DU thread posted by Sheshe:

Beyond Ferguson: Understanding the big picture

It's a good OP and also refers to this link:

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ferguson-understanding-big.html

The thread is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025467105

Virtually no response on a vital subject. The goals of the Democratic Party are not valued by the Libertarians and Republicans trolling DU.

Conservative jumped on DU from the time it was founded and disrupted heavily, despite many measures being put in place but these guys are not going to stop. Ever.

Your OP and the articles express what I've called for at DU several times. Progressives, unlike Libertarians and Republicans posting here to smear and demoralize Democrats, would not ignore the chance to listen to the experiences of blacks, they embrace them as kindred as the DNC platform does.

Those of other hues need the aid of blacks to succeed at progressive goals. Alienating blacks by dismissing their anger at injustice is not what a Democrat does. We are supporting social justice for all, none excluded.

As Bain's Bane has said:

Dismissing the rights and concerns of people of color and women is reactionary. It is way more reactionary than Third Way. There is nothing progressive or liberal about it, and I don't consider people who do so to be leftists. Period.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025216329#post457

I don't see Democrats doing what I've seen here at DU in real life.