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. I went from a majority white elementary school to a majority black middle school by force due to desegregation. My first day was met with having to ride on a majority black student ridden school bus, and they wouldn't let me sit down with them until the driver walked back and yelled at one to slide over, and to let me sit down. Then when I got to school, I walked into a densely populated hall where I was bumped into by black students, and my wallet was stolen (no lie). I reported it, but the counselor who was black told me that she was sorry that it happened. Then one day I missed the bus, and walked towards a basketball court where I was going to ask someone what to do if such a thing happened ? I was met by the students who were playing basketball and we're black, where as then they started pushing me back and forth amongst them, until they pushed me down. Next me and a friend was wrestling, when all of a sudden I took a hit to the head. Blood began to flow down my face, and I sought medical help. It was a black girl who hit me with a pocket book that had books in it. Next I was attacked one day when I walked near to a group of blacks, and one of them took a stick and began hitting me with it. This was my experience in middle shool with the blacks back then. Now you would think that I didn't have any black friends right ? Wrong! I had a black friend who was super cool, but when we went to his home one day, his older brother said that I wasn't coming into their house, and I was especially not going to sit at the table with them. My friend told his brother bullcrap he isn't coming in, and he told me to just walk right by him, and to ignore him. I caught hell in the middle school years with blacks, but it never made me a racist, because I know all blacks aren't racist just like all whites are racist. I will say this though, you best believe that I can spot a racist from a mile away.Though they think they do.
Both are suspicious of the other. The media likes to make it seem like it's white peoples' fault, that we don't listen. But from everything I've read and heard, black folks seem to make plenty of assumptions about us as well, many of which are just downright ridiculous.
So here I am. While I can only represent myself, I do know a lot of white people, and I know how they act when black folks aren't around.. I know how we operate to the last little detail. At least, in the middle-upper middle class. Rich white people might as well be from a different planet than us, which is why it's so aggravating that we get lumped in with them.
Think you know white people, huh? Well ask your question, or state your supposition, and find out. I'll give you as straight an answer as I can, as long as it's not something lame like, "Why do you smell like wet dogs?" Dude; 1. I don't know, and 2. That's kinda rude.
Oh, ask me questions about sex and dating. I love those spicy ones.
The issue is about how whites in a certain segment of this society practice racism an how they created law and policy to deny people who were not white. I'm taking about whites recognizing the damage created by these laws and policies as well as the understanding of the current forms whites deny opportunities by skirting laws that are suppose to make such tactics illegal. We blacks know this happens so then this is not about thinking we know everything about whites, because it has been whites who have believed they know better what we want and need than we do.
Poor whites, middle class whites and rich whites are still practicing racism against non whites today. This white victimization crap needs to end and whites need to recognize what they have done to others in it's totality instead of always trying to build strawmen or argue using false equivalences.
And whits still fo it now.
Trouble with this line of thought is, most whites don't believe they've ever "done anything". And they haven't, for the most part. They may benefit from a past that has favored them, but are they actively going out and harming non-white people, specifically because they aren't white? Probably not. So when you say things like that, understandably they're going to bristle at the accusation. What are they supposed to do? Take the advantages they have and throw them away? That's foolishness. Why would you do that to yourself? Just to prove to everyone how noble you are? Come on. You'd laugh at such a person.
When it comes to laws, we have very little to do with them, and paid almost 0 attention to politics until this 2016 election between two circus clowns.
Republicans don't make it difficult for minorities to vote because they hate brown-skinned people; they do it because brown-skinned people don't like them, and don't vote for them. Their old playbook (from before the Trump era) was all about getting Hispanics on board the republican train. They would probably love to get more black people on board. But the democrats have that bloc on lock, for some reason, despite decades of urban poverty that disproportionately affected black folks. And I say all this as someone who doesn't like the republicans any more than he likes democrats. They're equally repugnant in their own special ways.
But the real reason republicans don't talk about black people specifically is because they think black people have no interest in their party and never will. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sorry but I just cannot accept that excuse. If you are unjustly being given advantages that harm others and do nothing then you are doing harm to the others. So whites can get as mad as they want, but when whites gather around in places like this talking about how blacks don't work and how blacks are the ones waiting for handouts when they are the ones getting them, they need to shut up.
Republicans are racists. I live in a republican state. I think I can say that. Urban poverty is not just on democrats. Stop trying to push that bull shit lie. We vote democrat because of the racism in the republican party. Most of these people in his section posting are republicans, yet they tell us how the republican party is not a racist party. C'mon man do you whites really think we are that stupid that we see what's going on but that you can tell us anything and we are so dumb that we will believe it? Blacks used to be faithful members of that party, but they turned to favoring the southern white racists that left the democratic party.This is the same mistake the democratic party is about to make as hey now ardently pursue the white "working class" voters which will create a third party because backs are going to leave the democratic party too.
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