RE: The New Fox News Talking Point About the SC Shootings
June 22, 2015 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 2:39 pm by Nope.)
(June 22, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Drich Wrote: How people people in the US do you think support what this guy did? Do any of you think a whole lot of white people secretly support this mass murder?
I don't think that most people, regardless of race, support mass murder. Even most racists probably stop short of actually wanting to kill anyone
We do need a discussion about race. In the south, there is something called white pride or pride in 'our heritage' that drives me up the wall.
When I was a child, older white people often claimed that slaves were treated well in the south. I've known people that claim that the Civil War had little to do with slavery which makes no sense because it isn't hard to find original documents online that say, in the words of the Confederates, that the war was over slavery
People get called all sorts of names online but the most hateful names that I have been called occur when I have said that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism. Someone once told me that "You must be a black. Go back to Africa." It was the only time I reported anything to facebook. I am white, by the way.
Something is very wrong with the way we view race in this country and the only way to cure it is to shine a lot of light on it.
