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by dandanqu82 2162 days ago
Maybe it’s challenging the idea that these values are most associated with white Americans as if other ethnicities and races don’t value and embody them.

A lot of times, when black Americans speak up about racism,they are dismissed and told they wouldn’t have a problem if they valued nuclear families and hard work etc. before even checking to see if black individuals who do embody these values struggle with systemic racism or not.

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From the black lives matter website:

"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."

That isnt the only other place i have seen equivalence between valuing the nuclear family and being white either.