Posted on 03/09/2015 5:56:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the rise. But many claim there’s a glimmer of hope: The next generation of Americans, they say, is “post-racial”—more tolerant, and therefore more capable of easing these race-based inequities. Unfortunately, closer examination of the data suggests that millennials aren’t racially tolerant, they’re racially apathetic: They simply ignore structural racism rather than try to fix it.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
"You are not well, comrade, and we've come to help."
Heck, I am a bigot. I discriminate all the time on behaviors I encounter. But I don’t give a damn about the color of someone’s skin or what does or doesn’t hang between their legs..............
Evidently, anyone who’s ever said, “No,” to a Black person is a racist and everyone who’s ever wished to keep his own personal property rather than give it away to (or have it stolen by) a Black person is also... ipso facto... a racist.
Well said.
You can’t “fix” racism without being racist.
My liberal son—sorry about that—calls me a racist in jest. Even he recognizes how carelessly that charge is flung around by his comrades so that it no longer has meaning.
How about Millennials are tired of being hit over the head about how unfair it all is for minorities when they are busting their behinds looking for work and trying to build a life for them selves
It's far too important to keep racism alive.
I know blacks are racist, but what am I? : )
Damn right. I went to a segregated PRIMARY school—turns out, black racism starts early. (This was 2006/07)
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