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In reply to the discussion: I am trying to understand my "white supremacy" [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)disenfranchised PoC are in our society. A lot of people don't know that our militarized police treat PoC differently than they treat white people although I don't know how they missed that when Rodney King was beaten to a pulp on video and seen across the nation. I wouldn't doubt that many of the white police identify with KKK and other white supremacy groups. But to lump ordinary white people in with a cult that idolizes Hitler, beats women, gathers in militarized compounds, who are petty criminals and some who have been complicit in mass murders of people they thought were Jews or PoC does not help get their message out. I had to live five years in Idaho with those WS in my midst. I got to know them close up. So I cringed when I heard that phrase being used on stage and to Bernie Sanders, a Jew who lost family in the holocaust, frankly my mind closed for a bit and I had to step back and take a breath. Then I remembered the words of my friend Louise, who also had a white parent, calling it white entitlement something I can agree with.