American culture lionizes Black people in this day and age. Just look at any commercial, TV show or movie. If you went by that, you'd think America is 50% Black instead of 15%.
No, America does not hate black people, nor any other race of people. We also do not hate those of a different religion, creed, gender identity or any other identifier. We do find lazy, stupid, law-breaking and divisive people tiresome and foolish. The United States of America is one of the most tolerant countries in the world and, to be honest, I think in many ways we are too tolerant. We are allowing our kindness and generosity be taken advantage of and seen as a weakness. If we don't start pushing back against those who would use us up and throw us away, we will have nothing left for our citizens and nothing left to offer the world.
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There are many Americans who are bigots in one form of the other and it is true that black folks have had a pretty hard run of it. Even now. But there’s a lot of Americans, who are happy to learn how to get along with each other. I live in a pretty pale city, and though there are incidents. It’s not as bad as in some other parts of America. That said, there are entire sections of the country where it is in advisable to be a black person after dark in addition there are other sections of the country where many Black people live, and they are often in areas that areEconomically damaged, and many of them are also very close to toxic sites. So it’s certainly not everybody, but it’s Manny. And it’s not just black folks, Latin people Asian people and anybody who is of indeterminant gender are often Recipients of bigotry
I have heard it said that the problem with bigotry Is based on a fundamental premise All people x Are condition Y
@bijouxbroussard Systemic racism and institutional is probably the most pernicious of all. We see it here in Australia too. Seems to take generations of activism and effort to slowly eradicate it.
We have a national referendum on the Voice to Parliament coming up in six weeks. I'll vote yes.
Seems to take generations of activism and effort to slowly eradicate it.
It doesn't even matter though. It doesn't take but one bigoted leader (at least in the US) to convince people that the rights of certain groups need to be rolled back.
Like anything else - takes years to build but only a moment to ruin.
In the early 1900s in Chicago blacks represented a small part of the population, but they were fully integrated, and living a mostly middle class lifestyle. They had big issues when the lesser educated southern blacks started moving up into the city, because they feared they would be lumped in with them, which, sadly, is pretty much what happened.
As an American, I don't hate blacks, but there is a wide swath of the black population that we have a problem with. Black men ages 14 to 35 represent roughly 3% of the US population, but commit 50% of the murders. I work with good guys that are black that fit into that demographic, and have a neighbor that fits that demographic, that aren't like that. I have no problem with them and in no way lump them in with the dregs of society nobody should have to deal with.
@Guitarman123 It's all true. Your eyes have millions of photo receptors called rods and cones. The rods are much more sensitive but can only see in black and white, just like you.
@SumKindaMunster I gave you 2 chances to condemn white supremacy and white nationalism and you refused to and/or were incapable of it. Silence is complicity.
@Vin53 I don't need to prove a negative. I've never said or even remotely hinted at anything that would indicate I support White Supremacy or nationalism.
This is just your sad, obvious and pathetic attempt to change the subject. You can't rebut substantially so you consistently try to change the subject and project me into your already pre conceived notions.
First it was But but but TRRRRUMMMMMPPPP
Now, its But but but WHITE SUPREMACYYYYYYYY
I'm not fooled or discouraged.
I will continue to confront you on your indoctrination, childish taunts, and pathetic propaganda.
No! There’s usually a bad apple in most bags. All countries have pockets of racism. America is very tolerant and as someone else as already stated sometimes too tolerant. It will be to our demise. :/
@Guitarman123 Here's some truth. Black married couples have a poverty rate lower than the national average. Now, I am no defender of marriage, but how do you explain that? Is it possible that racism doesn't apply to blacks that are married?
The United States was founded by white supremacists, who supported the continuation of white supremacy. That’s the reality and there’s no getting around it, unfortunately. There have been several actions throughout the last centuries to correct this, but the racist beliefs are ingrained in the culture, in ways most people don’t even realize.. Half of the country is actively trying to reverse those gains that have been made. So I’m not sure what will happen next. 😞
@Guitarman123 No kidding. Many of our early presidents were slave owners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison John Tyler James Polk Zachary Taylor Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant*
*Through his wife’s family, freed by him
Also among the signers of the Constitution
In addition to identifying James Madison as an enslaver, Signers of the Constitution, published in 1976 by the National Park Service, notes that 11 other signers “owned or managed slave-operated plantations or large farms,” and then it names them: Richard Bassett, John Blair, William Blount, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge, Richard Dobbs Spaight, and George Washington. It is also known that Benjamin Franklin enslaved people.
The churches could have reducated people but they failed. The schools have been gutted to prevent education. The powerful want to sow division and distrust to keep a class of people in poverty.
If you go to China, you will find the Chinese don't like black people. Fidel Castro and his regime didn't like black people. What do these governments have in common? Hint. It's not capitalism.
@IronHamster fidel offered political asylum to members of the black panther's . Spoke very highly of nelson mandella amd sent soldier's and doctor's to south africa to help the fight against apartheid
Are the people you see expressing that hatred people you actually know? If you didn’t think so before, but internet made you think so, is it because people who you actually know were posting hateful things that you never would have expected them to agree with?
White republicans hate Black people the most and anybody who isn’t white.
And White liberals hate white republicans the most.
I’ve never met a black person or anyone of another race say they hated whites. They can be disappointed in them but that doesn’t necessarily mean they hate them. The only people who truly hate whites are white people themselves.
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout I'd rather have refugees seeking asylum then racist pukes like you. We don't have any illegal refugees seeking legal asylum here.
@SubstantialKick There is still some systemic racism in existence, unfortunately, appearing in astonishing ways.
A few years back, a friend sold her house and deposited a check in a well-know bank (rhymes with "Hell’s Cargo"). She was told to expect the check ($500,000) to clear in 5 days, which was fine. A couple of weeks later, she wanted to withdraw $100,000 to put down on a new property. They asked her to come in, and told her they needed more time to "verify", but they could release $10,000 right then.
She was puzzled; had the check not cleared ? They reassured her that it had. So why couldn’t she withdraw the amount of her money she was requesting ?
The bank manager came out, and in his nervousness, dropped the ball— he said she didn’t fit the bank’s "profile" of someone with that amount of money (!)
She called her uncle, an attorney in Oakland, and by the end of the day, she’d withdrawn all of her money, as had several of her friends and family, closing their accounts.
@SubstantialKick Yes, but people like to claim it’s money, not race that’s the issue. That’s not always so. This same friend once had a get-together and was talking with people we know who are, ‘very well off’. She asked, "whose money has prevented them from being stopped by police while driving, followed around in stores, etc. ?"
Nobody raised their hand.
A man said, "I’ve been accused of having stolen my own car !" One woman said, "well, I am followed around in nicer stores !"
@nedkelly @Guitarman123 Here is what people forget - typically the blacks that get treated badly are the "feral" looking and acting breeds. Kind of like any group.
People that look and act respectable move through life with relatively few problems. But you get disgusting ones looking like Lil Wayne (google that at your own risk) and yeah, people are going to make negative assumptions.
But yeah for any group, it is usually the extremists and weirdos among a sub-group who catch the most hell, not the assimilated ones.
