iv'ee been around the block more then once.
Iv'e told the story of how my black neighbor back when I was a kid "enlightened me" that he wanted the same thing for his family when he moved into the house next door - as the white couple with kids did that moved out.
It stayed with me. It taught me all people are the same. Skin color is meaningless.
Now the Progs want to overturn that, and the teachings of Dr King that skin color doesn't matter
it's loathsome that Progs/Dems/Whatever the fuck now say white people are privleged or the black man
can't succeed because of "systemic racism" or whatever garbage you Dems are lying about for political gain.
it's simply not true. we are a colorblind society. we have a rainbow of success stories,
an a thriving black middle class outside the ghetto, or large swatches of Dem cities.
This 1619 Project mentality, this lie we are a racist society- unable to shake off the original sin of racism
is destroying our E Pluribus Unum, and our common heritage.
And it's hurting young blacks expectations for themselves
The CRA ended systemic racism. period. it does not exist anymore.
When we find isolated instances of racism, we root them out, we prosecute and we do not accept it as a social norm.
Lying and calling the USA a failed racist construct imparts a sense of victimization to young blacks.
You ( not you personally) are creating the notion they cannot succeed, or any failures are because they are victims.
It's the "soft prejudice of diminished expectations" I find most vile
With all due respect good brother, in spite of the wisdom that your neighbor gave you, he could not break your conditioning.
Question: Are you of the opinion that race played no part in the epidemic of police murders of unarmed people the world .. and more importantly, young blacks and our children, are watching daily? In your mind race has nothing to do with it?
ONLY conditioning would make you deny the obvious. ONLY conditioning would make you claim that America is not a racist nation, founded on a racist history. How did your neighbor miss that?
The CRA did not end systematic racism and to profess that demonstrates that “truth” is told to you, not discovered for yourself. I say that with no disrespect intended, but your conditioning is stronger than your own sense of humanity, stronger than your intelligence.
I mentored middle school at-risk students for 11years. You, my brother could not teach them anything with blinders on. They do not exist in your world of make-believe. They exist in a world where any interaction with police, could result in their murder. They exist in a country where even after 400 years in America, we still have to fight against YOUR SIDE for the right to vote still trying to proclaim Trump is the king.
I could go on and on for days, but America is clearly a racist nation, and just because many Americans are not racist, MOSTLY ALL ON THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR SIDE, does not deny the existence and racist intentions of YOUR SIDE.
In no way am I suggesting that you are infected with the disease of racism, but you are certainly misinformed about who and what America is. We survive and prosper IN SPITE of institutional racism.
The entire world is watching America be the racist nation it has always been.