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[djean111]

22. It seems to me that black lives have been casually dismissed, for the most part, in the US,

since slavery. I think that it would be so missing the point for other groups to parrot this. I do not think, however, that any candidate should campaign as if this was the only thing on the agenda. And, again, racist constructs and inequalities can certainly be legislated, but racism cannot be legislated away.

I grew up in South Philly, where "Polacks" and "Wops" and "Moulignons" and "Papes" and "Hebes" were regularly ranted about, by my father and his friends. My father was crazy about JFK, though. Anyway, that sort of thing just went in one ear and out the other, for my brother and sister and I; we were not going to argue about it - my dad was a hitter - but we were embarrassed about it. The closest I got to even really talking about it was when my father told me that my cousin's ex-wife (he was quite the hitter, too) married a black guy. For some reason, even though we had never joined in on the racism (and yes, my father did not consider many other nationalities or ethnic groups as the same race that he was) - he thought I would be aghast. I just said Oh! I am glad she found someone. Billy was horrible to her. We stared at each other, and that was that.
My ex-husband (a Pape AND a Wop!) once grandly told a black guy he worked with that he was the first black person to ever be in our house. As if it was an honor. And this was in the late sixties, and I think that asshole I was married to still feels the same. And he came from some money, and I had been poor.

Anyway, I had thought a lot of racism and prejudice had just faded away, until I moved to NC for a couple of years. No, it is ingrained in some people, many people, and I would not know how to even begin to address how to get rid of it. Just how to get rid of the inequalities.

This is not meant to be a contentious post, just observations.