"Pro-Black Is NOT Anti-White"

[kpete]

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[Duckhunter935]

1. so pro all lives matter

Is not anti-black, right?

[gollygee]

4. It's dismissive

Nobody acts like what lives don't matter, certainly not because they are white.

[ShrimpPoboy]

2. White people generally don't define themselves as white

or celebrate it, unless the purpose is to put down others. We get to define ourselves as cajun, German, irish, etc. We celebrate those differences and have groups promoting our respective cultures.

We stole that history from our black countrymen. Understanding why they want their own space to promote the culture and sense of community they've built here is the least we can do.

[Amimnoch]

3. Perfectly stated.

[MisterP]

10. the "settler fantasy" actually tries to erase histories--you're supposed to just be a race,

not have any ancestry, because bringing history into the equation reveals the fact that the strictly-enforced boundaries are constantly being crossed

[oberliner]

5. Do white people alive today bear responsibility for those past atrocities?

I think that is an important question to reflect on.

[gollygee]

6. Two things

1. Did you read the list? A lot of those things were done by people alive today.

2. The point is that no one intends to do stuff like that. Anti-black people did those things, but no one who is pro-black has plans to do anything like that to white people and therefore they are not anti-white.

[oberliner]

7. It was meant as a question for reflection

Yes, a lot of those things were done by people alive today. But my question specifically addresses the unspeakable atrocities specifically connected to slavery.

I do get what the point is - and I am not taking issue with it, per se.

I just think that the historical legacy in the US is something that will haunt its people seemingly forever. What is the best way to deal with that legacy today?

[Wounded Bear]

8. The only way to deal with it is to actually deal with it...

stop bleaching all of the shit stains out of history. Listen to Santayana and actually teach real history. Teach what really happened, and how slaves were actually treated, and how free blacks-who have existed in our country since the earliest days, by the way-have been treated over the years.

The message copied in the OP addresses a fear that many white supremacists have, or at least use to motivate their supporters. They fear that what they have been doing to others will be done to them. It's a fear common to most all bullies.

[oberliner]

9. A lot of that is happening

Certainly at the college level - and increasingly at the high school level as well.

I think a lot of ordinary whites (not white supremacists) don't really understand what the appropriate response is.