02-10-2022, 12:41 AM
Ending racism is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, when it comes to this, and many other hotly debated topics, people are more like to speak in terms of intended results than either
1) defining a clearer, more measurable goal
2) recommending specific strategies and actions to meet that goal
for example, some ideas to throw out there might be
1) The simplest thing you can do it...encourage normal ass white people and normal ass black people to have conversations and realize how much they have in common. Most people don't care about abstract, ideological constructs as much as experiences with flesh and blood people that let them know "hey! You aren't so bad. maybe it was wrong of me to distrust you on account of something so trivial".
2) Take a look at black people who were able to rise up and successfully break the cycle of poor treatment, and reverse engineer some of the strategies that worked for them which you could help other rising black talent implement. One easy example: black entrepreneurs are disproportionately more likely to life higher standards of living than their parents and provide well for their children, so you could help establish a seed fund and free financial educational materials to facilitate greater black independence, individual autonomy and community respect.
3) If you see someone who hates black people....actually debate them with statistics about how genetically similar we are (ex: analysis of mitochondrial DNA all dating back to Africa fairly recently), how black people and white people have similar IQs given similar upbringings (the average IQ of a black child adopted by middle class white parents is 106, implying they aren't inherently stupider than white people) or examples of how black people contributed to the music, clothing, culture, etc that they enjoy. Just brow beating them with rhetoric isn't going to help.
1) defining a clearer, more measurable goal
2) recommending specific strategies and actions to meet that goal
for example, some ideas to throw out there might be
1) The simplest thing you can do it...encourage normal ass white people and normal ass black people to have conversations and realize how much they have in common. Most people don't care about abstract, ideological constructs as much as experiences with flesh and blood people that let them know "hey! You aren't so bad. maybe it was wrong of me to distrust you on account of something so trivial".
2) Take a look at black people who were able to rise up and successfully break the cycle of poor treatment, and reverse engineer some of the strategies that worked for them which you could help other rising black talent implement. One easy example: black entrepreneurs are disproportionately more likely to life higher standards of living than their parents and provide well for their children, so you could help establish a seed fund and free financial educational materials to facilitate greater black independence, individual autonomy and community respect.
3) If you see someone who hates black people....actually debate them with statistics about how genetically similar we are (ex: analysis of mitochondrial DNA all dating back to Africa fairly recently), how black people and white people have similar IQs given similar upbringings (the average IQ of a black child adopted by middle class white parents is 106, implying they aren't inherently stupider than white people) or examples of how black people contributed to the music, clothing, culture, etc that they enjoy. Just brow beating them with rhetoric isn't going to help.
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