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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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If talking about racism makes people more uncomfortable than racism itself, then the problem isn’t the conversation, it’s what the conversation reveals.
“I grew up in small southern town in the 1950’s and everyone got along. No one was talking about race. We kept our doors unlocked at night. It was just the soda fountain, the church, the school, and the extremely haunted forest we kept finding bits of rope in.”
America is worried about white fragility more than it cares about making sure kids have funded schools.. and national security.. and a strong economy.. and access to guns
Unfortunately, racists think that talking about race is racism.
Well… if you don’t talk about race racism doesn’t exist… /s
I have a theory (is it a theory, though?) that what is said in this social media post (what’s a post to bluesky called? A sky?) is why people say Obama is responsible for racism rearing its ugly head in the US again after “so many years without it.”
Obama acknowledged racism. He said he and Michelle had experienced it. By their acknowledgment of the racism, they were “being racist.”
Before his presidency, a lot of white people could bury their heads in the sand and believe that race relations were solved by the Civil Rights Act (or whatever). They could pretend that Black people weren’t experiencing racism because they didn’t see it and they didn’t hear about it – so it didn’t exist. And Black folks didn’t feel comfortable expressing the racism they experienced because white people were really good at gaslighting the shit out of them with “it wasn’t racism” or, and this one’s so great, “quit playing the race card.” Why go out on a limb to talk about your experiences with racism when you’re not going to be believed ANYWAY? (Which, BTW, is the point of a safe space – to be able to actually discuss your experiences and not be told you’re a liar or overreacting).
So, anyway, now people are talking about racists and racism and that is bad because it has disrupted the beliefs of a lot of white people who have been complicit in silencing Black voices for years. Never mind the fact that their complicity has allowed racism to run rampant – that doesn’t make them uncomfortable, only the part where they are forced to hear about racism. That they previously believed was non-existent.
They’re mad because they’re far more okay with racism happening quietly where they don’t have to hear about it.
At its core, it’s selfishness. If they hear about racism happening, then they feel bad and they’d rather just pretend like everything’s great, so they don’t have to feel bad.
That’s just white people’s modus operandi everywhere. The European country where I’m from, not unlike most others in what constitutes Western Europe, routinely reminds those of us who aren’t white that being called a racist is pretty much just as bad as if not even worse than actually being racist.
Because to them, Racism doesn’t exist as long as you don’t talk about it.
Not even America, it’s the whole world they say Americans make everything abt race bc we address injustices while they just sweep it under the rug and ignore it.
Quite literally over in England they had a bunch of far right people attacking any poc specifically those that identify as Muslim. The entire world doesn’t like to address racism
Most people just want comfort for themselves instead of justice of justice for all.
Abusers hate when you shine a light on their abuse. Let’s shine brighter lights because they can’t move in the shadows with bat signal up.
Making *”Great Again”* always meant reviving the *worst* beliefs of the *greatest generation.*
Always has been.
The way I see it, white people have the luxury of adapting this mindset. They can afford to think racism isn’t an issue and that it’s “over” because it hasn’t affected them, so when people say it actually is still a problem they get angry. A lot of people’s only understanding of racism is from an overtly interpersonal standpoint and can’t see the layers and complexity of racism as a system.
America….. is…… racist
It’s a country literally built upon racism. I moved from the Deep South to nyc to get away from it but if anything it’s worse up hereÂ
Too many people hide in the gray area. They want peace, but stay complicit and quiet when they witness live racism.
That is correct. They are more interested in white washing history to show that only “white” Europeans made real contributions to the country, when it was literally built on the backs of black and brown people. This is what “white supremacy” looks like. The actuality is that they use this as a means to keep poor “whites” pacified in ignorance so they never push back against a system that hurts them too.
Telling the true history exposes the lie.
The conquerors sets all the rules. The United States is a conquering nation they get to talk about what ever they want. If you want to talk about something else, then you must become the conqueror.
Always has been
Because america is racist
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Most definitely
Replace that first word with “Racists” and there you have it.
The thing about white supremacists at the governing level is that they tend to not want anyone to talk about it in a critical manner.
Compliance versus peace.
The only thing they hate more than being called racist is black people.
They don’t want you to make them feel regret or tell them how much of a piece of shit they are for being horrible to people.
This is their way to shut down criticism but ironically they feel very entitled to criticize everyone else tho.
Focus on the systems that breed racism, don’t focus on the racist fools who aren’t equipped to know any better.
The problem is the mfs at the top pushing division amongst the proletariat keeps us VERY distracted. Same as it ever was.
The place I spent part of my youth in in the U.S., it was “Oh, we’re not racist! There are no black people here!”
I learned about this via the metaphor [“the missing step”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair) or “Missing Stair”.
Basically means there is a known issue, that instead of fixing, people learn to work around it. Like a missing step/broken step on stairs.
A great point made when looking up this metaphors is:
**”Which one of these statements makes more sense to say: ‘These people need to find more ways to stop people from harming them.’ OR: ‘These people should stop causing harm.’ If you ever find yourself saying the former instead of the latter, take a moment and ask yourself why.”**
cool, when are prominent members of the community going to start making it a point to vocally boycott yeezy?
right…
I just feel hate for these people
Some of my friends finally understand why I’m so jaded
White fragility is so pathetically sensitive we are now in irreversible calamity to assuage their fucking feelings
Is this about Kanye?
Making sure kids have access to quality education should be a top priority for America.
God forbid we infringe on someone’s freedom of bigotry.
To learn why a coup happened in the US and why Musk along with other Billionaires are working to destroy the country, see this video from two months ago, predictions are coming true:
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?feature=shared
The American conversation on race is moronic on both sides.
The right won’t acknowledge systemic racism; the left won’t acknowledge personal agency.
The right won’t acknowledge white privilege; the left won’t acknowledge black crime culture.
The right lets rich whites do whatever they want. The left lets poor blacks do whatever they want.
The right won’t acknowledge that there are legit historical reasons why black people are angry with America. The left won’t acknowledge that there are reasons beyond racism (hint: experience and pattern recognition) that whites don’t want blacks around.
Etc.
It’s like this zero-sum game where there’s got to be a winner and a loser, with one side all right and one side all wrong. There’s no room for circumspection. Until all parties are willing to have a rational conversation addressing all parameters, there will be no progress.
*White America
Just like Israel is more angry at people condemning genocide, than at actual genocide!
It’s because it’s every conversation I don’t even think people know what racism is. Every other word is racism out of peoples mouth that can’t hold a conversation.
Speaking as an American white person, many white people feel a persistent, continual wound at their own lack of culture. Talk about racism makes them feel that pain more acutely, and so they want to look away. they want to live in denial.
The reality is, the reason white people do not have a culture is because white people have maimed their own culture. Going back hundreds of years it is a culture of exploitation, conquest, occupation, slavery, and mistreatment.
They know this. They all know this, deep down. And so their attempts at defining culture are revisionary. Re-write history. White people weren’t slave owners, they were job creators!
But this culture will never sate them, because they all know the lie it is built on. And so they become violent to defend that lie, because insecure people are always violent and aggressive, to defend what they know is patently false.
And so we have generation after generation of white people refusing to account for their past, and thus, re-maiming their own culture. Building fakeness and falseness on top of their own inability and refusal to reconcile and account for what their culture did.
This has always been obvious to me. I have observed my own people, and I see this pattern over and over and over and over again.
I can promise you that many white people envy black people. They envy a legitimate culture. They envy peoplehood, and community.
But they’re too emotionally crippled to understand the reasons they do not have that thing. They cannot face the past, and so they doom their future.
The irony is, if white people, especially in America, DID FINALLY address the systemic issues their culture was built on top if, if they finally gained the courage to look their past in the face, confront it, address is, they COULD have a culture. They could build a culture on top of that. They could become what America had always promised it was – a land of new opportunity, a place for everyone to be themselves and to be free.
But they won’t. And in refusing to do so, they’ve helped catapult a career grifter to ultimate power, and that person will be the doom of their country.
He won’t magically make the whole country white. He’ll just grift, and maim, and further enshittify white people everywhere. Their love for him reveals the deep rot at the heart of them, and like everything else Trump touches, he will turn them to shit, too.
It is deeply, deeply pathetic, and deeply sad.
There are literally armed people hunting nazi’s in Ohio but okay.
Ok folks I’m not black but I taught in a MS delta school for three years. I have a friend from those days that runs the democrats minority party in the area and he stays totally frustrated. He can’t get but a small percentage of his community to register to vote let alone vote. It’s always one excuse after another.
I get it that blacks are upset at both parties but there are enough democrats who vote in MS that if we could get the black vote going there would be a change.
I’m sorry but there has to be a push for blacks to vote and vote democrat. It’s obvious that republicans don’t give a crap so what is there to loose? As a group of voters this can be fought but not of the main party of people won’t help!
And before those “you don’t understand” people start, don’t waste your typing. We moved to Mississippi 45 years ago and were dirt poor. The only people that would befriend us were the small group of blacks in our community. The rest treated us like dirt. So I’m pretty comfortable saying that I have just a little view of what it’s like.
That’s true
That’s because most of America is racist.Â
And the working class is too busy pointing fingers at each other’s skin colour instead of going against the upper class pitting us against each other.
Talking about race and dividing literally everything by race is what’s bringing racism in the first place. Take advice from Morgan freeman, and stop talking about it.