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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]tblue37
(65,528 posts)how she feels about our society's oppression, abuse, and discrimination against black people, which are not just crimes committed in the past but ongoing and still pervasive in the present, makes me want to throw up my hands and succumb to hopelessness. *I* feel like that, even though as a white person I don't have to overcome such oppression, suppression, insolence, and insult day by day, hour by hour, year after year after year.
I can't begin to wrap my mind around the stress and pain such continual experience must provoke in those who are directly victimized by it. I appreciate your willingness to keep *trying* to inform and educate, despite the inevitable obnoxious pushbacks by the clueless and the intentionally obtuse. Every time I see a post by a black DU member that suggests he or she feels too exhausted to keep at it here, or when I realize that I haven't seen many (or any) posts by one of my favorite DUers for a while, I get worried that we have lost another member we could not afford to lose.
It isn't only black DU members that we lose because they run out of patience for dealing with crap, of course, but I have noticed that too many black DUers have either stopped posting, or drastically reduced their activity on DU.
I found DU in summer of 2004 by following a link on smirkingchimp.com to an H2OMan post, and he remains one of my favorite posters. But you, Mr.Scorpio, 1StrongBlackMan, and BumRushDaShow (among others, of course) are also on that list, and I fervently hope you won't abandon us, even though I understand why you might be tempted to.
No, black people have no reason to love white people or the culture of oppression that whites have created and extended in this country. I am just glad that the black people I know are more tolerant, patient, and forgiving than we have a right to expect them to be. Thank you for that!