THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

[sally]

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.

Being thrown to the ground and kicked and punched because of the color of your skin is not called "getting shit", it's called violent racism and white kids experience it daily in schools. But I like the way you reduced it to that and it proves my point about the white guilt. Somehow if it happens to a white person it's called "just being picked on" because it would be racist of you to even try to compare what happens to a few white people to what black people go through. The white person's experience of getting the shit beat out of them is less significant because they're white. By constantly thinking this way you divide two groups of people even more. And I never said that if white people stopped feeling guilty that racism would die. Racism will never die. What I meant is that it perpetuates it.