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bioemerl  ·  3745 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For blacks, America is dangerous by default

    because white people dont want to actually do anything as that'd admit being attached to wrong doing.

And articles like this are going to help how exactly?

    . In my experiences, white people who claim they aren't racist, discriminatory, etc also don't want to participate in the dismantling of a system that benefits them.

What system?

The best example I can see of what you are talking about is stereotyping. And this isn't a system "non-racist white people do not attempt to dismantle". Do you think everyone should overreact to anything we think could possibly be stereotypical? Should we scorn those who avoid downtown because they don't want to get mugged?

This isn't something that white people can change. The only way the issue here can be fixed is:

Ending the war on drugs, kill off the gangs by killing their money.

Focus a large ad campaign on what stereotypes can do to a person, get one of the existing organizations to back it. Focus on some kid being left out of a group of "nerd" based on skin color or something.

Focus on changing any cultures that exist in ghetos that say "to act smart is to act white" attack those cultures in the same way as above. Targeted advertising.

All of these things are, to an extent, already being done. More importantly, none of these things are able to be done by the average white person. Even more importantly, white people aren't a giant cohesive group, you can't expect the "non-racist" people who recognize stereotypes to be able to change those who are "Racist".

What exactly would you expect white people to be doing, if they were to be trying to dismantle a system that benefits them? Mind, increased equality does not come at an expense to the second group. It benefits us all.