Debate Flares After Black College Students Seek A Non-White Roommate

[MrScorpio]

137. Believe or not I know that citing rednecks can be a bad example

From my own personal experience, I've known rednecks who were quite comfortable being around black people. They were raised side by side with blacks and had no qualms associating with us. Basically, some of which were quite anti-racist.

The same can be said of whites who are raised in black urban communities. People who are also known to intimately identify with the black experience.

The thing here is that whites with close associations with black people are in the minority. These are white people who are the furthest from regarding black people as some kind of novelty. Quite the contrary, these are whites who are highly likely to become our closest friends and family.

Most white people, unfortunately, isolate themselves from people of color and only in terms where they derived the greatest benefit. Think about white flight here. This takes the form of systematic oppression through segregation.

What I see here is that you're applying that same premise to black people against whites, when in fact black people do not retain an commensurate amount of institutional power over white people.

You're mixing apples and oranges here.