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In reply to the discussion: America [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)that my interests don't matter supposedly in favor of my interests despite having nary a piece of legislation or policy to address said interests apparently to be handled by get this "a national conversation" while the ones with real policies and laws being passed and executed.
What is done is directly in or counter to my interests as well as that of my brother in law, my sisters, my family, and my friends a "dialog" is far more dubious in its impact and meaning. It is also outside the political process when action items are of little focus and racist institutions and practices are defended with a seeming desire to leave them as is yet somehow just suck that bigotry out somehow.
A strange belief, maybe even a hope that systems and structures built upon racism can be some exorcism can be performed that takes out the fundamental rot away while leaving what they have succeeded from or are preserved by in place.
This hope or belief then is manifested in the strange notion that the necessitous and desperate have practicable and practical rights, access to justice, and reasonable tools and environments to advance self determination and increase what can be returned to the community as payment forward.
Maybe the poster was saying between the lines that race relations and racism are a distraction and if so fuck them but the counter argument is at least equally garbage from my perspective, more so honestly because on one deeply impacting hand I'm seeing talk of talk and what appears to me to be a willful tap dance around any actual policy changes on the structural level to mitigate harm and on the other every moment of every day touching hand I hear at least the talk of doing and stopping actual things in the policy arena...ACTION ITEMS of fundamental importance most significantly affecting the very same people in the first hand.
Being in both hands myself, I'm befuddled how hand #1 feels it can actually accomplish anything of broad consequence without hand #2 being strong in this country to the point that some of the most vocal advocates of hand #1 seem to really be about demanding their class privilege be fully recognized to my reckoning and perhaps to sleep a little better knowing that injustices are dispensed somewhat more in line with demographics at least to the point that the remaining substantial difference can be written off as economic and ignored.