(August 1, 2021 at 3:30 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(August 1, 2021 at 2:18 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: You must be under 40.....
Anyone who grew up.in the sixties knows the score.
MLK made it very clear.
I am 58. Do you think systemic racism remains a problem?
What did MLK make very clear? Can you elaborate? The discussion is about teaching kids in school, and teaching them the true nature of such a huge part of our history.
Systemic racism? As in " the white man keeping the black man down"? Um. No...
SOME white men are absolute fucksticks and treat non-whites as inferior. No question. I believe MOST white men ( people) consider people with a skin color other than their own to be equal - and capable.
So I don't think it' s systemic.
MLK made it clear that people are people. The color of their skin means nothing - but their character can only be seen in their actions and how they treat others.... He threw in a bit too much Jebus woo for me - but that aside I find him to be otherwise fundamentally correct.
The problem as I see it is the blurring of past and present.
Yeah - it sucked donkey dick that people in this country were enslaved.
But - just being of the same skin color as those oppressors does not make anyone alive today guilty or responsible for those crimes.