2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Refusal to accept Clinton as the Nominee is Rooted in Misogyny and Racism [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)need to come to grips with the fact that the world has changed. This nation is not getting any whiter, ever. More than half the babies born are not white and the demographics are changing even faster than earlier predicted. Now, that may make some who were used to being the standard upset because the needs of others are at times going to take presidence over their own needs and that has not been the way of this nation ever. But it is now. And from now on sharing power is the way and sometime we have to stfu to learn thing one that we are being taught.
People gained their own privileges over us by enslaving us, red lining, jim crowing and the practises of racial discrimination continue unabated to this day, and it will be discussed loudly and often until this nation and it's citizens actually expend the energy to fix these very serious problems, and those who do not experience them learn to be the student rather than the teacher. They don't know what they dont know about race because they do not suffer the efffects of the racism they so desperately want nobody to ever speak of.
They also do not know how to eradicate a damn thing because they never take one minute to listen to the actual victims of racism to learn about race and how racism affects their daily lives. They refuse to oearn because they see themselves as above those who are affected and think they are the ones that need to teach the actual suffers how to deal with a system that they themselves have never once been affected by personally.
They'd rather shut down discussion and be angry at the messenger than actually take the time to realize that they are paternalistically trying to teach a subject to someone who lives that subject everday.