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In reply to the discussion: "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is" [View all]Caliman73
(11,730 posts)Black people were considered property up until 150 years ago. They were not allowed in many states to marry White people until 1971. Special laws had to be enacted to allow Black people to vote, buy property, get jobs, etc... about 60 years ago. Those are just laws that legally allowed for White People to treat Black people like they (fill in the blank how they suck). The attitudes that White people are inherently superior to Black people are what drove those laws and which continue to pervade society today.
So... there is no need to put that out there. It is already there, in almost everyone's mind in some way. It is constantly being reinforced in subtle ways. If you aren't Black or a woman, or some other person of color, then you are like a fish in water. You don't realize you are wet because the water just is. Hell, even women and other people of color, who have experienced a portion of the level of discrimination that Black people have experienced are still like fish in water. We see it a little bit more, but it is always, all around us to the point where Black children in research chose the White dolls as the pretty doll, the "good" doll; and chose the Black doll as ugly, or naughty.