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In reply to the discussion: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Our Constitution protects the minority. The evil in men, and women, has figured out that they can completely stop progress in the name of certainty and fear. In our economy that can be a death knell.
Were you at the city council meeting last night where they were arguing for more racist policing of minorities? They thought that was the only "right choice" sane people could make, given that our streets are overrun with hordes of immigrants bent on killing all of the innocent ones among us. Well, that's what they said, more or less.
MLK Jr, et al, Those people you mention made some mighty good quotes. Some are on the gravestones of those around today's victims of those "right choices" we have been making. So is that 35% unemployment while we chose to make bank$ter/donors richer - and among that 35% group they have a 40% chance of dying earlier.
WE made, and are continuing to make, that choice with our votes. Hey, it helps mostly white folk. 'Cause they mostly run the big banks and money pools, eh? Let's hear it for protecting the minority and choices.
We have been organized as a racist society taking advantage of the weak, and that has mostly just changed in form over the years. It's how most of our wealth has been made, and now lost. It is also how we are inflating the current economy on the backs of about 100 million of our less fortunate Americans. (Read Timothy "Killer" Geithner's book Stress Test for the details, and watch voters laugh at his face when he tries to spin it otherwise, here.
Those folks last night at the council meeting, others one might hear on the radio and tv - they will not change. They will watch this earth burn down around all of us before they agree with any progressive (which is why like liberals, since they can then get a compromise, but that's another post) point of view. They have taught their children and their grandchildren these things, and those folks are in the police departments and city and state governments all over the country. Even when they quit their jobs they organize against progress and civil rights in the community.
Is it getting better? From a white point of view, most respond yes in surveys. From a person of color's point of view, maybe not so much.