re: We Have a Moral Divide, Not a Racial One

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i can't think of one instance in my life where i benefitted from being white.

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you mean like the ones colleges and businesses have or government...in places like south central los angeles, Birmingham, Baltimore, etc. who do you think is in charge? jesus Christ, NO. The only reason I benefited from being white is that I'm not black...that's the reality that can't be talked about white privilege is not having some crazy lunatic female raising you by herself (I was raised by a single mother, oh the horror)going on wild harangues, beating you, not working, not caring, etc. that's what white privilege is...it means you are more likely to be born into a family that values education, hard work and quite frankly is a little more on the up and up when it comes to behavior and emotional intelligence. environment, but when it is a group that thinks and behaves homogenously it is mistakenly viewed as either racial inferiority, or racial discrimination it's all bullshite, you've been had dummy.

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i suppose all those white people living in the trailer parks of Livingston Parish are breathing that sweet sweet air of privilege as well.

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stop playing the fricking victim and blaming everything on whitey and take some fricking responsibility.

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can tell you why we sometimes see ourselves as black first:

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But your apathy is a indirect reason for people's frustrations and sad events like fergurson. I'm afraid that oeople like you will only start to care when it gets shoved in your face, when it happens through your kids, or when you're forced to deal with it.

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I can tell you why we sometimes see ourselves as black first:

Due to age old and systematic bouts with local, state, and institutional racism, various aspects of our lives were first regulated to our "black" blood. Look at the classifications slave masters made for mixed people's "quad-roon", "mulatto" etc. Look at the 3/5th compromise, Dred Scott's case, the fight against abolition, the civil war, etc.

All of those horrible events were seemingly passed on through our color to future generations that had to deal with tangible incidents of oppression.

Yet we have boards like this that do not thing that the sins our country have a had any sort of pandemic effect on that group. Some members of that group thinks it's damn obvious and they get upset when they see things like this event happen. It's like reliving emit till for some folks (in not drawing that comparison myself).

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Age white supremacy and terrorism humiliated and embarassed the humanity of a group for centuries, leaving long lasting residual effects and to some it sometimes looks like the strives we have made have been disingenuous because of all the back pedals we take and all of the lingering racial fears and bias.

This board never asks itself what it can do better to help mend this Divide. They pin it on the backs of the historically oppressed group. From an historical standpoint, they never ask themselves what they can do as a group to help mend it.

It's short-sighted and ignorant of our history, and if we want to bridge the gap, the historical monarchs in this case are gonna have to make serious strides on inter-relational standpoint to help bridge this gap

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