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In reply to the discussion: The problem with saying "All Lives Matter" [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)80. Institutional racism is willful, and systematic.
Many police forces dehumanize black suspects. Schools in urban areas, through their inadequacy, dehumanize their minority students. Blacks are dehumanized and suspected generally in many areas of society, in housing, employment, etc.
Black people are generally dehumanized through poverty that has destroyed black family structures for generations. These are not things of the past, these are things currently happening. You somehow see this as only historical, which is quite false.
I don't have time to sit and talk of this further, as I need to go to work tomorrow and go to bed now, but my frank impression of you is that you don't know much about the lives of black people currently and what they have to go through.
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And? Generalising grudges over the past makes a worse world, not a better one.
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#17
"The statement that Black lives are systematically willfully dehumanized is excessive"
kwassa
Jul 2016
#38
I agree with some of your points, but you still do not solve the BLM conundrum
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#21
To talk about systemic racism, nothing can be more clear than NYC's "broken window" policy.
rusty quoin
Jul 2016
#36
Misrepresenting what I say isn't proper discussion. Where do I support Zimmerman?
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#89
I suppose anyone who doesn't absolutely share your views sounds like a RW troll?
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#115
Facts? I haven't seen you bring up one fact yet. Just letting everyone know you got caught.
Rex
Jul 2016
#95
And? All I said was that we do not **know** how Zimmerman picked his 'suspects'
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#96
I think Zimmerman was a mild loon and that his case did not reflect on anything much
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#127
This is also false on it face, you been listening to faux new too long... they've been saying simila
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#124
No. It isn't just the past. Lynching is a problem today, too. Did you read about the racist Kansas
tblue37
Jul 2016
#24
That one can find examples of white victims of police brutality is unsurprising, and does nothing to
fishwax
Jul 2016
#110
Perhaps black people should not be targeted for traffic stops because they are black.
rusty quoin
Jul 2016
#77