(July 23, 2013 at 4:56 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I see it like this. Imagine you were out sailing on the ocean, and your boat capsizes. You make it to the shore of a desert island and spend the day exploring it. You come across another person that has been on the island for a week, and they say that they're starving and haven't eaten in a week. Now, you could tell them about how you haven't had anything to eat all day and that you suffer from the pains of hunger, too. Or you could simply say, "Well, let's go looking for some food." The latter is pragmatic while the former seems to solve nothing.But at no point in your scenario does one person ignore the plight of the other.
What currently happens would be akin to the person on the island for a week complaining loudly about not having eaten, but when the person who arrives tries to speak up about not having eaten either, they are told to shut up and that their problems are real, or aren't important enough.
Does the person who has starved for a week deserve more attention, more food, etc? Yes, of course. However, that doesn't mean the person who has not eaten all day deserves nothing, which is what currently happens. Unless we accept that racism happens across the board, and that it is wrong in any circumstance, we aren't going to be able to move forward from this point.
