And that is the problem. Instead lf addressing the racists, those like you say nothing then you jump in attacking those of us who a calling it out. If you were not comfootablle with racism, you would call it out,, but the prolm is that fa to many whit dn't GD cau th racism ds not affct them.
What you witnessed was a black family who has experienced racism.
So again, you excuse the same attitudes that you scream about when you think you see them in white people. You don't know the family, you don't know their history, you don't know anything about them except that they are black and you leap to defend their racist attitudes.
Again, you want to minimize our experience by trying to make everything th same, but it's not.
No, not the same, but also not totally excusable like you want it to be.
I married a white woman. My parents had a problem with that. Why? Because they were born in th 1920s and grew up watching black men who dated whit womn gt lynchd an beatn. They got th burning crosses in their yards. They experienced Jim Crow full tilt. They got spit on n beaten by whites. My father was almost killed for trying to defend his mother in Louisiana when th man who ran the company store slapped her. My mother almost got her family out of town in Kentucky for beating the shit out of a woman who spit in her sister's (my aunts) mouth.
Okay, and why were you not trying to move them into the 20th century when marrying a white woman was not such a big deal instead of excusing their attitudes and allowing them to be stuck in the 20's? See, you want it both ways. You want ME to lecture other white people on their racist attitudes, but you want to excuse black people for having the same divisive attitudes. You want white people to change their attitudes (and they should), but you don't seem to think it's important for black people to change theirs. It takes both to make it work.
Those are just two examples of the many stories they told us, then you wonder why somebody black just might not like their child marrying somebody white.
Think for a moment. A southern white family that has been attacked multiple times by local black gangs throws a white daughter out of their house because she dates a black man. They have reason to distrust black men because they have been attacked, beaten and robbed by them. His family opens their home and lets the couple and their children live in their house until they get on their feet. Is the white family racist? You would lie if you attempted to say you didn't think so. I KNOW you would be screaming bloody murder about them. Yet you are defending racism in a black family because you think it's justified. I'm asking you to be consistent in condemning racism. I condemn it in white people and in black people, why can't you?
This is not about immunizing anything; it is about whites such as yourself understanding exactly what blacks have endured before you decide to try calling someone black a racist or lecturing us about how real black racism is.
No, it's about you and your compadres saying it's impossible for black people to be racist. Everyone can, by your own criteria.
I do not think whites such as you truly understand the depth of the damage white racism has caused, and the fact that it continues just makes things worse.
We are at the point in this country where racist attitudes are no longer accepted in polite society, and is found in smaller in smaller enclaves, yet you will not acknowledge the progress we've made and the hard work many have put into transforming the most difficult of things to transform, the human mind. In fact, you seem eager to keep the issue going and to make it worse, not better.
So instead of talking about black racism, why can't whites like you try erasing the white racism that created th mistrust an anger? Whites created the racism in this country, and it is time whites took responsibility to clean up the mess they made instead of what we see in places like this and in posts such as yours.
Blacks did not create a system that provided us with preferences and excluded others based n skin color. Whites did. When we as black peope talk about racism, that's what we mean.
And that's being changed. Why do you think you don't see homogeneous families on TV anymore or in advertising? Why do you think C-suites are seeing more people of color than ever before? Why do you think we had a black man in the White House for 8 years? Those things would never have happened had we not moved far past Jim Crow. You, OTOH, keep complaining that Crow is still alive and well. Why don't you catch up with the rest of us?
You guys try denying the systemic aspect and try making it an individual thing, so you can deny that the problem begins and ends with white behavior
Who do you think progressed from slavery to Jim Crow to Civil Rights to where we are today? Not black Americans, there aren't enough of you to make that happen. No, it was white Americans who took a hard look at their attitudes and decided to make a difference. Things like that don't disappear overnight, they take generations to truly change, but they are changing. We ARE getting to where we want to go and you complaining that Jim Crow is still alive and that it is as bad as slavery is not helping. Instead of focusing on change where it can make a difference, you choose to lecture those who ARE trying to make a difference about things they were never involved in, things that were done generations ago, and you scour the internet looking for things that individuals do to make your case that everyone is like that. Add to that your weird allegiance to the democrat party that holds you in contempt and it's no wonder people don't take you seriously. I never see you call out democrats for racism, though there is plenty to call out.
