Look it is kind of the white elephant in the room. (so to speak)
There is racism in this country. It is ugly, it is bad, and I really wish there was a cure for it. The country has a very very ugly history with slavery.
We had lots and lots of responses to this thread when discussing Trayvon the victim. What happened to him was another sad commentary on the country. I personally cannot feel the same as black people who have experienced racism. I do kno I have experienced anti-Semitism and do almost daily. It is a bad feeling man.
What is most discomforting is that it is almost taboo to talk about whites getting beaten by blacks. I am sure I have already been labelled a racist for doing so. For wondering aloud why this is not addressed by the administration, or by Holder. For wondering why activists like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson turn a blind eye to this. yet Trayvon Martin brought out plenty of formal responses, investigations, etc.
Your response Cardiff is a decent response. Yes take care of yourself, avoid conflict, be aware. Great that works however that doesn’t address the problem. In fact this more of what we have been doing. Turn a blind eye and don’t talk about it.
Yet if a group of whites beat the hell out of a black kid and put him in a coma how big of a media circus would we have?
Now did that happen? Hell yes it happened regularly in the past. How friggin ugly is that? What a piss poor statement that is about white USA in the past. Plenty of that racial history exists today in what America, it is sad. However that same hatred exists, and boils over regularly in black America as well against whites. It pops up in a story or two in the press but it is summarily ignored by the administration. Why? Is the administration racist? No I don’t think that for a minute. Is it because the administration feels it has a responsibility to black America to respond? Perhaps I don’t really know.
It just is unsettling. To even discuss it rationally portrays me in a bad light however I have no clue how to even bring it up to get people to talk about it.
