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by andrewmd5
1928 days ago
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“too far gone.” I’m sorry I’m not a model minority in your eyes, but it’s rich you’re telling a black person to spend more time with black people. These aren’t just my lived experiences, it’s subject matter that comes from thousands of hours of talking with the very people you claim I should spend more time with. You’re so uncomfortable with race and acknowledging racism you’d rather pretend you are the expert. I’m not “too far gone,” I simply live a life you can’t bring yourself to understand. If it’s such a ridiculous statement then I invite you to provide anything backing up that claim. Because all those resources you claim are available to Black Americans are often the very things lacking in Black communities: https://www.epi.org/blog/the-racial-wealth-gap-how-african-a... I mean Christ, have you even heard of a food desert? |
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I've been hurled racial slurs/insults throughout my life at various points. Sometimes randomly on the street, sometimes as a joke, sometimes when I didn't even catch the meaning of what was said until I had gotten home and it was too late to reply.
Despite that, I cannot subscribe to this thread that somehow people, of any colour, born in the most prosperous country the world has ever seen are somehow disadvantaged compared to those that arrive on its shores.
You may have spoken thousands of hours to people from all walks of life, but you are dangerously wrong with your assertion and it are perpetuating the falsehood that it's always someone else's fault as to why population X (whoever it might be, in whichever Western country) has an issue.
Racism still exists, however it's not the answer to every question.