sealybobo
How do black people move out? How did my grandfather leave Greece? First he left by himself and got established and then he sent for his wife, my dad and his sister. It wasn't easy but if he can move to a country where he can't even speak the language, you can leave the hood.
So let me this straight. You're grandfather RAN his ass from Greece to go to a country that black people built and fought for ?
So much for all that great Ancient Greek civilisation eh ? What happened ?
You got some nerve.
You're grandfather brought white skin with him too (or certainly not black) You see what you leave out is that your Greek grandfather got to where he was because of racism.
Yes your grandfather might have worked hard but that hard work was MET with doors opening for him. Doors that would have never opened for him had he been black.
The Greeks did not suffer from hundreds of years of slavery - Because they were White.
The Greeks could vote by the 1860s, not the 1960s – Because they were White.
The Greeks qualified for the Homestead Act, the G.I. Bill and FHA loans – Because they were White.
The Greeks could live in nice neighbourhoods and go to nice schools – Because they were White.
The Greeks never dealt with legalized segregation. Never were they treated as livestock rather than people in this country. They were allowed to intermarry with other groups, and they now have assimilated into being white, including being able to partake in white privilege.
No Greek person in the US has been subjected to the pass laws, being made to endure life without any running water or electricity being made to feel like non-citizens in a country that they immigrated to when Jim Crow was in full swing.
Whatever stereotypes the Greeks may have had then does not impact you now.
If you fill out a job application
TODAY : No one cares if you are Greek.
- No one follows you around in the store.
- No one assumes you are lazy.
- No one assumes your child-like and can’t take care of yourself.
- No one assumes you're criminal.
- No one tells you are so much better off in America so you should be glad your ancestors were slaves.
- No one acts like they did you a favour or saved you from a backwardness.
- No one displays your human reminds as primitive until the late 70s.
- You don't have to radically change/permanently alter a feature of your body to become accepted or get employment (like hair for example).
You're just another white person.
The same cannot be said for a black person.
The stereotypes of blacks are to this day are still widely held and even defended by white folks and a few misguided blacks.
I think it's grotesque and monumentally repugnant of white ppl who want to own victim-hood whilst being steeped in white privilege and patronizingly conflate their specific white ethnic problems within white dominance and project that onto black people
sealybobo
When more than 20% of a community becomes black all the economic opportunities go away because you can't run a Kroger and make a profit when you have to hire security guards and with all the shoplifting.
So the system of white supremacy - racism exists because whites thinks that black people can't run a Kroger ?
What you are saying merely demonstrates the effectiveness of several hundred years of racial propaganda saying that black people are going to be criminal, they’re going to rob you, they don’t make good neighbors. In other words if you have years and generations of people picking up those kinds of messages, and they do pick them up, from several different sources.
You have never been attacked by a black person
You have never had a black man denied you a job or a loan
And you have never heard a black person
"We're gonna get rid of 200 jobs here. Have a nice day"
Every mean word, every mean action, everything bad done to you in your life, has been done by a white person.
Tell me when I'm lying ?
And you're worried about black people.
sealybobo
Plus whites don't want to go in that neighborhood because of the high crime.
If white racism is due to white peoples beliefs about black criminality then how do you explain the racism by white people who have never or hardly around black folks ?
You go to places in Russia - Serbia or other part of Europe or places and towns in the USA were there is hardly blk ppl then why do they come forth with many of same negative stereotypes in spite of no first-hand experience of black criminality ?