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shiranaihito  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America's struggle

    as time goes by, more and more people who are simply unwilling to look at the past because it’s easier for them to not identify any problems, even though others don’t have that luxury

So how guilty should some random 16-year-old white person feel about slavery, considering he had precisely nothing to do with it? If your great great grandfather killed a man, how guilty should you feel about it?

The sane answer is "not at all, because you had nothing to do with it".

    There are people who think that saying “I’m not into black girls” despite the fact that they’re upwards of 500 million of them on the planet and the color of their skin is the only prerequisite that they failed to meet, who think that it’s just a matter of preference

I think this is more a matter of biology than preference. Men don't exactly choose whom we're attracted to. Besides, I would venture a guess that most white men aren't into black girls, but not because they're racist scumbags.

If it's any consolation, I bet most white women would be just fine with a black man, especially without the attached social stigma.

    White supremacy is a weight that continues to stunt the growth of the black american even today

Despite the clear fact that anyone who appears to be a racist will get ostracized hard? Can our white, Western culture be both hypersensitive about racial issues and racist at the same time? That would be like being allergic to cats and having 40 of them in your apartment.