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Jackaloftheazuresand Personally and I'm not trying to sound insulting or fight with you. But your response leaves out decades of redlining by banks and landlords, unequal school funding, bias in policing and hiring, and the fact that wealth accumulates generationally ..which Black families
were legally barred from doing until pretty recently.
The distrust of authority isn’t irrational either. It came from lived experiences like medical racism, police brutality, and government experiments that actually happened, Tuskegee being one:
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972) was a profoundly racist and unethical U.S. Public Health Service experiment on 600 Black sharecroppers in Alabama. Researchers denied treatment for syphilis to 399 infected men, allowing the disease to ravage their health to observe its natural progression, resulting in over 100 deaths.
And that was just 1972.
That kind of mistrust doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, it’s inherited trauma backed by pretty sound evidence to me.
Of course, personal responsibility matters and I'm also not trying to tell you otherwise. But I can also see cause and consequences too in how a system works.
Much like how the anti vaxx movement is responsible for all those cases of measles going around. Our system is the same way I believe with cause and consequences that must be corrected. We could easily mitigate these things.
For the record, the kind of person I am is that if it helps one community, it helps us all, that's how I look at things. I don't feel guilty cos I'm white, I do feel frustrated that things can easily be avoidable and if they aren't, then it's intentional. I don't like that.