| Malice_Mizer |
07-20-2013 08:47 PM |
You also totally ignore the past and the fact that my parents were in college when MLK was assassinated and African-Americans fought to get the basic right to vote in many states.
I always love how it's overwhelmingly white people that claim racism is dead. White people founded a country based on the explicit doctrine of white supremacy, a philosophy which triumphed until about 50 years ago.
You simply do not have a right to claim that racism is dead. You don't know or understand what racism even is, friend.
You'd be saying the same shit in the 1950's, championing how "separate but equal" was a fair doctrine to conduct our society by.
Statistics and indeed reality do not bear out the idea that racism is dead in America. There are still massive power and economic gaps. And just go back and look at the tweets that sprang up when Rachel Jeantel testified. If you can read the shit that white people say when they won't get caught, or think they're in good company, you'd take that shit back so quick.
But then, you'd probably come up with some other intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt way of explaining it away. Continue living in your fantasy bubble, where you willfully ignore current events and the world around you so that you can play videogames all day and pretend that the suffering of others doesn't mean a single thing to your pretty little self.
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