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gwheezie

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26. White folks make it about them

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 05:20 AM

Sep 2015

Most of my friends and coworkers and several family members are black. We talk about race. These are people I love and respect so I don't feel like I have to defend white folks because no one is lying about white folks or saying something I don't see for myself. Racism exists. White people institutionalized racism into our laws and society. If you take the whole of the history of black folks in this country and what has continued today, white people have had s very negative effect on black people. I think black people have depended solely on their own strength to live here because white people have done nothing to spread equality. The efforts white people have made is to attempt to correct their inhumanity directed at a race of people. That is much different than knowing the truth of truly being a member of the human family with equal worth among all races. White people by their deeds and actions do not value black lives as much as their own. Now that is not to say there aren't white folks that have evolved and been actually heroic in being humbled by their own arrogance.
This is how I see things. I have listened to black people and continue to listen.

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It's amazing how little we (in the US, at DU, whatever) actually fully communicate about racism [View all] gollygee Sep 2015 OP

Things in that "discussion" made my mouth fall open until finally I just left it open... betsuni Sep 2015 #1

I think they are really not listening. Starry Messenger Sep 2015 #2

Oh I've gotten that gollygee Sep 2015 #3

Yeah, I'm doing a little research. Starry Messenger Sep 2015 #5

I think you have nailed it completely. Number23 Sep 2015 #8

Not only that, but the white people who think that --despite making up easily 90% of this board -- Number23 Sep 2015 #4

You picked up on that too? JustAnotherGen Sep 2015 #6

Between the "woe is me! The 12 poc that still post on DU are oppressing me!!1" vibe Number23 Sep 2015 #7

The last reply to you by the seriously hurt special individual made me LOL. betsuni Sep 2015 #9

Me too! Can just imagine the special soul going full Dr. Smith as they writhed in agony!! Number23 Sep 2015 #10

I am going to ask you again, not that I expect an answer, nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #11

I never called you ANYTHING which is exactly what every single solitary person that has seen those Number23 Sep 2015 #13

I am not making this up nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #16

You are not owed anything and certainly not an apology. I don't know what is going on with you Number23 Sep 2015 #17

I already gave you one nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #18

You apologized because you were the one in the wrong. Which you have been REPEATEDLY Number23 Sep 2015 #19

No Number23, I apologized becuase you perceive that you were attacked nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #20

I'm not reading this garbage and have no idea what is going on with you Number23 Sep 2015 #21

Oh. My. Gawd. I opened that thread a while ago, then quickly closed it when I saw who was making scarletwoman Sep 2015 #12

I am latina thank you very much and Jewish nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #14

I don't get where they're coming from either. But the entire point of that OP was that Number23 Sep 2015 #15

Oh, I think it's clear that it IS growing! scarletwoman Sep 2015 #22

King said it beautifully as well... Number23 Sep 2015 #23

"I'm ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave." Just... Awesome. scarletwoman Sep 2015 #24

Yes indeed Number23. lovemydog Sep 2015 #29

They come with preconceived notions JustAnotherGen Sep 2015 #25

White folks make it about them gwheezie Sep 2015 #26

Yes. And there's a distortion phenomenon that inhibits discussion. lovemydog Sep 2015 #27

I avoided reading that thread yesterday because I knew it would piss me off WhollyHeretic Sep 2015 #28

Word. lovemydog Sep 2015 #30

You could practically see them making protest signs: "We are being silenced!" betsuni Sep 2015 #31

A friend of mine posted this on FB today Starry Messenger Sep 2015 #32

same here steve2470 Sep 2015 #33

I have heard lots of crap thrown at me on line.. yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #34

There are a lot of ignorant people in our country davidpdx Sep 2015 #35