02-23-2022, 02:17 PM
(02-22-2022, 06:06 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-22-2022, 02:05 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't know anything about white people oppressing blacks and people of color. I live in a modern day suburb with black people and other people of color who have the same freedoms, similar core values and similar income levels as the white people who live in the area. I guess that's the reason why we get along and no longer judge each other by skin color for the most part. There seems to be a major disconnect between what you and others say about oppressing blacks and other people of color and what the rest of know and see in real life. The Democrats of old once viewed women as property just like Democrats of old once viewed the slaves as property. The Democratic party still seems to have a hold over both of them ( blacks and women in general) but that's in the process of changing as you or the Democrats above you probably know or figured out by now.
Again, it was the rural racist faction that oppressed women and minorities. The parties switched places on racial policy when LBJ allied with MLK and the Republicans went with the southern strategy. (You really should study America rather than repeat absurd fallacy.) Today there are still folks who will murder due to skin shade, invade and shoot paintballs into crowds in commonly black communities or hold insurrections against democracy to keep a racist president in power.
I can agree that many in the rural racist faction have grown beyond that point, but many have not, thus the struggle for equality needs to continue. Some find prejudice, death, criminality and insurrection acceptable, turning a blind eye, thinking Trump and all he stands for just wonderful if they can continue their prejudiced mindset. I disagree. Racism is a recurrent fad. In this time it is resurfacing again. It ought to and will be suppressed.
The Trump/Republican and rural factions seem to ignore or explain away the police killings and unfair treatments of black people. They also ignore the great racial wealth gap. Have practices like redlining of black and poor neighborhoods been ended? It doesn't seem so. And now the Classic Xer factions want to end "critical race theory" and any other knowledge of history about racism in the past and how we got where we are. A strong nation, as George W Bush said, does not bury its past, but can face it. The Classic Xer version of America is not a strong and confident nation that can study and face up to its past mistakes, errors and violations and correct them today.