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In reply to the discussion: Do you ever notice that often white folks who are most skeptical of minority accounts of racism [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)people who can repeat stories of the discrimination against white folks in this country (namely against certain ethnic groups of white people, like the Irish, the Italians, etc.) when that was common, decades and even a century ago...
that while they can believe those stories, second hand, without proof and other witnesses...many of these same people can't believe an account of an African American's experience of prejudice or racism.
I mean, if we look objectively at the history of this country, if you're going to accept the story of discrimination against whites, but not stories of discrimination against blacks --then isn't that biased? Because there is much more evidence that discrimination against minorities occurs and has occurred, in far greater instances, than against whites.
So if someone is willing to believe the stories about white folks, but doubts the ones from black folks, then that's biased, and it's racial bias against the accounts of racial minorities, because the evidence on balance shows that if you're going to doubt an account of racism, you don't doubt the story of an African American and accept the story of a White American.
smh.