Running racism in America thread

People who grew up under segregated America are making laws, running businesses, and holding positions of power right now.

 

Abbott’s not here to talk about the past.

 

Unless everyone in this country who is older than 50 years and went to those schools is dead, yes.

JFC. It's a real-life example of to the long term ramifications soloflyer was talking about.

 

Yeah. Shit birds like McConnell and Graham.
Scumbags like Cotton and Cruz weren’t schooled during segregation, they were schooled during desegregation and forced busing. The children of those who went to segregated schools are grandparents now. 50,60,70 years ago is politically ancient history.
And white guilt and shame over horrors a few generations ago by people unrelated to the average voter will just entrench the positions of everyone.

if you draw a paycheck to live in this country your privilege ends the moment it’s spent for food shelter and medical care.

and no one is pointing at a solution. Only pointing fingers at someone with hate.

 

The bold is the problem with your entire post and mindset.

This isn't a political issue. Equity in schools, fair housing, employment, police reform, social justice - these topics may come up in politics, but the root of those problems would still exist even without political intervention. We could have zero social media platforms and Black men would still be targets of white cops. Families of color would still be given different price points for housing than white families. And inner-city school districts would still have funding problems and lower test scores compared to their suburban, wealthier, whiter counterparts.

 

Sheffield Lake police chief Anthony Campo resigns after KKK note

 

My husband plays in a cover band... Top 100, mostly R&B, pop, some country... his band has a black lead singer, and had a black lead trumpet. Complete cohesion, best friends, etc. I asked "Do you see racism"? Absolutely not in reply. "I don't think anything, anyhow, about my friends". And that's true. But in today's world I asked, "Do you think (his coworkers) think anything about you"? It was a new conversation... what does my (white) husband experience driving home at 3:00 in the morning vs. his co workers? That's where their stories diverge. That is white advantage.

 

Is your husband a lefty guitar player?

 

Haha. Indeed, I am Jane Asher, and my lover Paul was in a band before Wings.

 

Forgive me if I told this story already. Last year I was driving near the beach on a busy parkway. I was at the last light before the beach starts and I was messing with my phone and trying to find music. Stoplight turns green right before I finish, trooper hits his lights, I figure he's busting me for my transgression.

Nice guy, in his 20s, walks over to my car, asks for an ID. "Did you know your tail lights are out?" The entire stop lasted three minutes.

Does a non-white person get the same break? Does the cop sniff around in that other person's car and imagines some whiff of marijuana or the odor of alcohol on the driver's breath and he decides to search? I don't think this trooper would've — he seemed like a nice chap. But I'm white and I'm middle class. You can drop the "white" adjective, but I'm definitely privileged — most of us here are; college educated, reasonably intelligent, have a sense of the law — and we all should accept it.