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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)But I empathized with young people like her. It took me years and it will take her some time too.
I like the difficult questions because I want peopl to stop and think when they hear stiff like she said and ask themselves why? Not take it personally, but to think about it. And change the way we react to young black people like that. Listen to them, respond with respect even when you feel hurt, empathize, and try to change the world so that another generation of young blacks don't grow up either hating their own color, or hating white people. Just saying it was in the past is not helpful, because it is still with us deeply in the now.
Racism affects the black community in more ways than just from outside. We treat each other different based on skin tone. I'm medium to light, I get on just fine. Light skinned blacks get treated better by black people just like they do by white people, because we take our cues from white people who have been doing that since light skins got to work in the Big House while dark skins worked in the field. The racism ripples down from tge white community through minority communities. I have an hispanic name and speak spanish, light skin hispanics call me names in spanish until they know I speak spanish, but there is still a light skin dark skin thing. I'm the dark one with them so I know how dark skin blacks feel. It's all fucked up. And some internalize it and shout out in bursts of anger. I cannot understand why people don't understand her pain and just want to focus on her diatribes.