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In reply to the discussion: White people (especially men...especially straight) seem to have lived in a bubble all their lives [View all]brush
(53,469 posts)we become a majority minority society, how relations between the races change. And that is not that far off.
Over and over we hear the need for having a national conversation on racism. Personally I don't think that will ever happen because too many whites (not all) are afraid to go there not because they don't want to deal with their ancestors' and their own culpability, but frankly, many don't want to acknowledge or give up their privileged positions.
As the country's demographics continue to shift, however, and the power dynamics change over time (we're seeing that already with reports of a sharp up-tick of suicides of middle-aged white males), there will be less and less need for that national conversation as we'll all gradually realize we're in the same boat. The realization and acknowledgment of change will be hardest on particular segments of society but it will happen.
What's even more interesting to me though is once that stage is reached, what will happen versus the one percent who have herded us all into the same boat?
That will happen too.