03-18-2019, 10:28 PM
(03-18-2019, 09:38 PM)sally Wrote: I've had so many niggers make my life miserable during my school years because of the color of my skin. You apologetic white guilt people make me sick to my stomach. You're the ones who are responsible for keeping racism alive and you're too fucking stupid to even comprehend why.
Any of us in our general age group who grew up in areas where we were in the large minority racially or culturally probably got shit in school. Yeah, it sucked. I don't wish it on others at a national or global level throughout their adulthood.
I'm a white person who doesn't feel personally guilty about racism or run around calling people racists at every turn. But, I do recognize that blacks face systemic race-based disadvantages in the U.S. when it comes to income opportunities, education quality, criminal justice treatment, and such. I've seen it personally time and again and there's plenty of evidence of it on a macro level as well. I agree that we still have a long way to go and should always be working towards greater equality.
As to Maggot's opinion...............I don't know if racism in general is worse than it was when we were growing up. It could be that it's just being discussed and witnessed by more people now.
But, it's certainly not non-existent and racial inequities can't be credibly written off by claims that black people are just lazier, scarier, or looking for hand-outs more than white people. And, the suggestion that if some white people stopped feeling guilty then racism would die is really fucking stupid, in my opinion.
Anyway, there are times when racist violence spikes and that links to backwards people being emboldened to embrace supremacist views openly and have them re-enforced, in my observation. But, I don't believe for a second that racism would die out if all the extremely vocal and violent bigots were wiped off the face of the earth either.