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Number23

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3. Exactly.

Reply to kwassa (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 15, 2013, 05:36 PM

Aug 2013

I mean, if it doesn't fit within their personal life experience, it can't possibly be true or even exist

I blame Hollywood. Damn near every single movie ever made about slavery, the Civil Rights Movement or the Native American holocaust was told from the white perspective. We forever exist as props in the "real" (white) story which is of course, the only story that matters.

(I'm being slightly sarcastic, of course. I blame much more than Hollywood)

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In terms of African American issues - who has the right to shape the debate? [View all] JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 OP

When you're talking about me and mine jaysunb Aug 2013 #1

White people have the right to shape everything, don't they? kwassa Aug 2013 #2

Exactly. Number23 Aug 2013 #3

well, there are all those movies about the white crusader person saving the poor black folk kwassa Aug 2013 #4

You know... FreedRadical Aug 2013 #5