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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
I don't think it will die out unless evolution takes us to a place we are not at. I can't think of any country I have been to where race wasn't a issue.
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4/22/2018, 5:25 am
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
perhaps, i just came across this disturbing article.
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/black-teen-misses-bus-gets-shot-at-after-asking-for-directions-in-rochester-hills
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4/22/2018, 4:51 pm
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
While this one, especially the turn out, on both sides is hopeful.
Neo-Nazi Rally Draws About Two Dozen People and Upends a Small Georgia City
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/neo-nazi-rally-georgia.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
I think race relations might settle down if everyone admitted that all races are racist, not just whites.
I've always fought for the rights of others. despite race or creed. This should be a main focus for all of us.
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
If anyone says it's just whites, I'm ready to slap 'em down.
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
quote: msdulittle wrote:
I think race relations might settle down if everyone admitted that all races are racist, not just whites.
I agree. One of the things which may have made race relations worse in this country rather than better has been the mass media's emphasis on white racism with a long series of stories over the years about white people being racist. To some extent what they have done qualifies as anti-white propaganda in that those stories have never talked about the racism of anybody but white people.
People of all races are racist, not just white people. Promoting the idea that white people have a monopoly on evil racism is a mistake. And it may have increased racial animosity in this society rather than doing anything to ease racial tensions or to reduce the level of racism.
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
But white people have had, and still have, the most power to harm people of other races, and in this country they have historically used it to commit atrocities that were (and still are in some places0 rationalized or overlooked by the wider society. Even short of atrocities, they disrespect and punish people for being non-white, while their persecution is rationalized by other white people as being deserved. Look at last week's Starbuck's incident.
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So where were there any black nationalist rallies this week end ?
Everyone says they are against racism, because they are not racists, but then go on to but the problem is with the victims, them, the minority race, because you know how they are, but I'm not a racist.
Revisionist PC BS is still just BS.
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quote: Bellelettres wrote:
But white people have had, and still have, the most power harm people of other races, and in this country they have historically used it to commit atrocities that were (and still are in some places0 rationalized or overlooked by the wider society. Even short of atrocities, they disrespect and punish people for being non-white, while their persecution is rationalized by other white people as being deserved. Look at last week's Starbuck's incident.
So if this scenario was turned around..and a black woman managing a Starbuck's asked two white men to leave because they weren't buying ...would that be racist? In the restaurant business space is money.
Many see racism, when it isn't present.
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Re: Are things getting worse in race relations in America? What do you think?
Why not ?
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