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In reply to the discussion: Tim Wise: Race-Talk is a Language White Folks Need to Learn [View all]TigressDem
(5,125 posts)I grew up on the West Coast and got probably a more liberal education than many white kids, in more ways than just school.
So I did get into the history of slavery and how whites decimated the Indians because there were many in power who thought whites were supreme to other races. The misuse of Chinese on the construction of railroads, the internment camps where Mexicans and others were used to farm and owed so much just for room and board that they were essentially slave labor any way. How the Mexican men started banding together to protect their women and eventually that evolved into gangs with much more sinister agendas while still believing they needed to do whatever it took to protect themselves from white society.
I KNOW there is so much historically to understand WHY whites are mistrusted.
I also know that in all that history were also whites who stood against the mistreatment and attempts to resolve these problems somehow legally.
We started this country while we still had multiple opposing viewpoints on how best to resolve these issues. IF it had been the intent of ALL the Founding Fathers to validate and litigate slavery as legal, they Constitution would have said, ALL WHITE MEN are created Equal, not ALL MEN are created equal. And as a woman, I am still in similar status waiting for a real equality to be recognized. So I feel the pain of being seen as less than for something I have no control over either.
I HATE THE EFFORTS of the REICH WING to keep us all fighting with each other and to keep their tentacles in the structure of society so they can keep trying to decimate the opposition and retake control and establish the rich over the poor, the white over the others.....
I want to do all in my power to stop that.
I simply want some ideas of what in today's system is still supporting that agenda.
AND despite all the flak I am getting with the replies, I am getting some answers.
So thanks for starting the thread.