People talk about police brutality
Why not condemn everything that is damaging blacks folks, starting with urban culture.
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Police brutality is targeted because it's sensational and it's egregious because it's coming from people who are supposed to protect and serve us. The other problems are tougher to identity and to tackle. I agree they should be addressed. We can all agree police brutality is bad, but it's harder to come to a consensus on what aspects of urban culture are harmful (and what specific effect they have). The ultimate problem is poverty/inequality. If black people were socioeconomic equals to other groups, I doubt we'd be seeing all these problems.
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@cupidnpsyche Yes, in part. They were also not legally discriminated against to the extent that black people were for so long. There is a legacy from that.
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@cupidnpsyche Because they are in a cycle of poverty that is incredibly difficult to break out of. An immigrant who comes here with nothing has already broken out of one sphere of poverty in leaving their country and coming here. A black person born in a poor area to a poor family has not done so.
bijouxbroussard · F
@cupidnpsyche And your father came here by choice, with his language, his culture and his name, did he not ? You don’t understand the circumstances so you shouldn’t try to make comparisons.
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bijouxbroussard · F
@cupidnpsyche What aid is that ? I’m the direct descendant of slaves and everything we have, we worked for. At least 100 years, for no pay.
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bijouxbroussard · F
@cupidnpsyche Some do. Possibly if the descendants of African slaves had been fully allowed to assimilate and hadn’t been legally segregated for generations you’d hear fewer complaints.
It’s like I said, you don’t know our history so you can’t make accurate comparisons.
It’s like I said, you don’t know our history so you can’t make accurate comparisons.
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bijouxbroussard · F
@cupidnpsyche We understood it, we just weren’t allowed to participate other than on the sidelines. It used to be illegal to teach slaves to read and write. As in, people who did, risked actual prison.
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bijouxbroussard · F
@cupidnpsyche I’m talking about you not being able to make comparisons without knowing anything about the history. You can say what you want, but it’s a different set of circumstances. In a lot of places, Mexicans were classified as “Caucasian, Spanish surname” I’ve seen that on several birth certificates of older people.
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