There are a ton of other ethnic groups: Latin, Mexican, Asian etc..that all could be saying the same bullshit but you don't see them doing that. I've had these conversations with all of my black friends and colleagues and I have a lot of them...again stop saying it's about being "black" because it's not - it's about people actions. Originally Posted by SNL9933I respect your view point, but you're not understanding the severity of what blacks have faced in America. No disrespect, but your "black" friends are just going along to get along if they even exist.
The ethnic groups listed have not been systemically oppressed in the US. I'm talking economically, politically, and socially. I respect our Latin and Asian brothers and sisters but our plight is not the same.
They didn't get ran out of Sundown Towns, They didn't get water-hosed, They didn't get German Shepherds turned on them, They didn't get separate washrooms, They didn't get separate water fountains, They didn't get funneled into impoverished neighborhoods because of unequal and racist mortgage tactics, their kids have not been purposefully miseducated, they have not been purposefully funneled into the private prison industrial system for profit....I could go on and on and on.
Though our plights are not the same these same ethic groups didn't mind benefiting from the work black people put in during the Civil Rights Movement.
The dominate society has to acknowledge and correct these things in order for there to be a change.