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korey  ·  3118 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hard truth about race on campus

'Classes and lessons' are not the things creating racial biases or causing society to marginalize racial minorities in this country.

In order to move past something, you confront it. You deconstruct, and analyze, and make art about it and shit. Anyone who has gone through anything mildly traumatic will tell you that. You don't bury it and hope that with time, it will disappear. To apply this dead logic to something as complex and nuanced as racial relations in this country is...beyond stupid

    The argument is that future policy should focus not on education about the differences or hardships that black people face

Why the hell not? We are going to deny reality in lieu of preaching the false notion that we all look around and view one another as peers on equal standing? Minimize the hardships black people face in order to make more room for perpetuating a lie that says society is set up in a way that favors them as much as their white neighbor?

    Even as we all accept black people accept more hardships, we will still continue to look at them as if they are different, as if they are a group not a part of the national whole.

...this is kind of the point. You don't change that disparity by denying it. You confront it.