Black Lives Matter? Eh?

[denilson200]

Point being, your view of the white race and I imagine you probably have others you look down upon leave you no redeeming quality. You state what a tragic impact all us rascist whites have had on the black race and yet you perpetrate racism in your words,

Couple of things to bear in mind.

You seem to think I'm in the business of telling sob stories to appeal to the pity of whites. That assumes a favourable view of whites and a paternalistic view of blacks.

As I have made plain elsewhere whites have hearts of stone when it comes to blacks. You have have to have a heart of stone to do what white people do. To poison black people's water supply as they did in Flint a couple of years ago. To redline black areas. To use black people as guinea pigs in white hospitals. So I don't try and appeal to any morality or any sense of right and wrong in white people. Because I know it's not there.

And you know what's interesting is that often when whites feel backed into a wall they often try with the shaming tactic. "Your looking for pity" "Can't stand you and self-pity" they like to get real big bad and act like tough, but when they get taste of racism, they fall apart.

There was a guy called Joshua Solomon in 1999. He changed himself from black to white

He grew up in Maryland and had plenty of Black friends. He was one of those white people who did not believe his black friends. He felt that many black people used racism as an an excuse.

So what did he do ? He went to a doctor who gave him pills to turn his white skin brown. The doctor warned him that it could lead to liver damage. He shaved the hair off his head but dressed the same, acted the same, talked the same. He had the same money and education. It was just his brown skin and bald head that were different.

This is him.



After one week he was done.

Even though he was going to do it for about four months and visit different parts of the country.

As a White man he looks and smiles at White people and they smile back. But as a Black man whites look away, lock their doors, assume he is dangerous or up to no good.

The police would stop him even though he was just walking down the street minding his own business.

Restaurants would tell him they were full, even when they were not, restaurants where nearly everyone sitting down was – White.

White respect and friendliness that he took for granted was gone. Instead Whites regarded him with disdain, even fear. He met a homeless White man, blond hair, blue eyes, who had almost nothing in this world: even he looked down on Blacks.

By his second day in he was in tears.

Oprah did a programme about it.

This is why I laugh when white people like to come with any shaming tactics because they can't handle racism for a minute.

If you dismiss a group of humanity on the basis of skin, religion or culture you are just a narrow minded stunted being.

I have not dismissed anyone. Do I think all whites are racist ? Yes I do.

I believe that all people (white or of color) raised in a society where racism has been (and still is) so prevalent, will have internalized elements of racist thinking: certain beliefs, stereotypes, assumptions, and judgments about others and themselves.

So in countries where beliefs in European/white superiority and domination have been historically embedded, it is likely that everyone in such places will have ingested some of that conditioning.