#Blacklivesmatter organizers disrupt O’Malley and Sanders to demand end to structural racism

[heaven05]

57. yeah

it's been a generations long, hard process already and nothing has really changed. As you noted new generations of racists are created every day. That light switch you are referring to, its been broken, never has worked. Every electrician I've called on that damn switch has told me the same thing you have, it can't be fixed. You're good with words. One person writing letters can make a difference times one, times one, times ten, times a hundred, times a thousand, but the privileged are not and will not write. None of my letters/emmails/texts are even answered sometimes and that is only because they didn't receive 1000 more letters/email/texts on the same day about the same subject. You destroy those racist groups by marginalizing them and having enough of their own race ostracizing them openly and forcefully. I'm beginning to think it hasn't happened because the insulated privileged need them to protect their privilege, so they DO NOT speak out.

Look white people do not care to dismantle racism because they are not directly affected by it or the policies that systemic and institutionalized racism bring to bear against POC. It's a simple game. Been that way for generations. It's gonna take a lot of white people giving hell to their elected representatives for groups of racists to be destroyed, for systemic and institutionalized racist mechanisms designed to keep POC in an economic, educational disadvantage to the privileged to be dismantled. White people in general are not directly affected by a cliven bundy, stormfront, KKK, a dylaan roof type murderer, CCC, the death of a Sandra Bland or Trayvon Martin, S.C Mother Emanuel Nine, so it means nothing in the context of their daily lives. Yet all mentioned are a direct threat to every black person alive in this racist culture that is getting worse every day.

In the historical context of american racism white people have never been affected, therefore a majority could give less than a damn about racism and POC and won't ever. Racism is still here to be dismantled so I know white people don't care enough to even write a letter to start the process of dismantling systemic and institutionalized racism. The individuals who wave their flags of white pride and heritage? Live and let live until they don't want to let me live, peacefully. Then all bets are off. When Bernie, O'Malley, HRC, Webb, never happen, as candidates stand up and say no more to the racists of this nation that are driving the systems and institutions that are keeping POC in the place they want us instead of worrying about alienating the vote then maybe more privileged will say the same. I don't know. Too many privileged are too comfortable inside their gated consciousness. Maybe you're right, it'll probably keep degenerating to the point where millions of people will have nothing to lose. Then we'll see what happens.

You're not offering a damn thing, I see that, you're just saying you can't do anything about the fact that I could drive to the store tonight and forget to use my turn signal and in up dead by "suicide" in a jail cell. And I guess you're not offering because you feel it ain't gonna happen to you. Also because you think it racism cannot be defeated for another 250 hundred years or whatever. What a joke racism is. It's a scam of the highest order to keep one race, both the conscious individual who know what's going on and the unconsciously culpable who don't want to know what going on to keep one race in the drivers seat and for 250 years it has worked. You're right, "no quick fix", so far. You're still in the drivers seat. Believe it or not it's where most of the privileged prefer to stay and with the societal perks, who can blame them.

Finally ask the 1% if they would like to see racial, economic and social equality. See what they say about the "long hard process".