Running racism in America thread

Additionally, blaming racism or privilege by one group over another in general, broad-stroked sweeps doesn't address and/or minimizes any progress that has been made in such areas, as well as any attempts -- many successful -- by people of different ethnic groups to get along fine, mix and work well, and not be a problem. In other words, when/where does it end? Because, surely, such an issue is never going to be completely settled, or rosy, and certainly not perfect, for all involved. People are different. There will never be no differences.

But that doesn't mean a sense of hate, or majority/minority or us/them separation prevails in every instance. Certainly that shouldn't be the case, and no one should claim that it is. But people insist on it, and that's what makes the topic so inflammatory and difficult to address.

 

Lawmakers nominate a disproportionately high number of white students to service academies

 

When WriteThinking is going around liking your posts on race, it might be time to stop and reevaluate.

 

The Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

 

Generalities exist for a reason. You can’t sit there forming a conversation that will please all parts of society equally, especially a country with 330 million people.

Here’s what we all could do: Be a little more self aware and don’t be an asshole. That’s not asking a lot.

 

Now you're calling him an asshole? STOP MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT TO NOT DO RACISM!

 

Spitballing here. I think most white people don't mind saying they're for change as long as it's some time in the future and they're not affected. I don't know if anyone here was in the chat I'm, about to mention, but a while back (ten? fifteen years ago?) a player for the Titans was pulled over while he was driving home. He lived in Williamson County. For those of you playing at home, it's the wealthiest county in Tennessee. Most professional athletes, celebrities, members of the Middle Tennessee professional classes, and the people who don't care about looking woke while they're calling MNPD because a Black person walked past their house in East Nashville live in Williamson County.

At first the cop was honest and admitted he wasn't driving recklessly, he didn't fit any APBs, then he admitted he was suspicious because he didn't think he should be driving through Franklin(?) Brentwood(?) All of us agreed that things needed to change. Then one person said the quiet part out loud:

"I'm fine with things getting better for everybody. I just want it to happen slowly and a long time from now. I'm not ready to give up my life so everyone else can be comfortable."

No one said very much about it after that. I was gobsmacked. This person tended to be left-centrist and we'd talked about people like Fred Russell, who was an acolyte of Grantland Rice and a vocal proponent of the Civil Rights movement. Of course, there is a difference between the reassuring distance of history and the reality of the present day.

Edited because Grammarly hates me. (Channeling Neil from The Young Ones.)

 

Well, the cops disagree with it.

 

So that makes it right?

 

Not going to speak for him, but I doubt that's what he meant. If anything, LEO preference for it is proof that systemic racism exists.