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People With Privilege Choose Every Day: Dismantle Racial Bias, or Participate in It
Time ^ | June 23, 2020 | Agnes Gund

Posted on 06/23/2020 5:25:12 AM PDT by C19fan

I remember African Americans in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, protesting the violent racism they endured when I was a young woman in the 1960s. I remember thinking that it had nothing to do with me. I have learned since that everyone, but, particularly white people, must address our insidious negative beliefs about Black people that cause us to tolerate the reality that Black people are disproportionately harmed by policing and the legal system.

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Money quote:

When it comes to racial bias, you either participate in it actively or through silence, or you use your power and privilege to dismantle it.

So much for dissent is the highest form of patriotism. I remember how the Left mocked Bush the Younger for his you are either with us or against us rhetoric.

1 posted on 06/23/2020 5:25:12 AM PDT by C19fan
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raical bias

According to whom? Are we talking about a one way street?


2 posted on 06/23/2020 5:26:58 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (HOw about Washington DC?)
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The answer to this is you are not obliged to think about their situation. And a big get lost to purveyors of guilt trips.


3 posted on 06/23/2020 5:28:51 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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The problem is that white people with the most privilege don’t think they have it. White Democrats. White BLM protesters calling Black police officers the N word.


4 posted on 06/23/2020 5:30:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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So, they’re saying that white people are better than black people?I for one refuse to accept that white people are better than black people.


5 posted on 06/23/2020 5:30:21 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: C19fan

You have an opinion, dear.

That is all it is.


6 posted on 06/23/2020 5:31:01 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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I see a dominant trend in how people "think" these days. It's pretty obvious on the topic of Race, but I see it in other areas too. I would sum it up as follows: "You either agree with my opinion, or you're wrong."

I think it's an evolution of the recent postmodern concept of "We all have our own truths" or "Your truth may be different from my truth". I think those postmodern notions are sloppy and dangerous ways of thinking. But I think we are now at a new level.

"I have an opinion. My opinion is basically a Fact. If you ignore my Fact, if you dare to have an Opinion that differs from my Opinion, then you are the worst person ever."

I can't believe people are going through life with a worldview like that, but I think they are.

7 posted on 06/23/2020 5:31:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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I vote we use BLM’s method to erase our privilege...loot, burn, destroy and murder. Seems to be working for them.


8 posted on 06/23/2020 5:31:33 AM PDT by moovova
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The article is BS. No one can point to a Jim Crow type law that is proof of systemic racism.

Justice should be blind. Not race obsessed.


9 posted on 06/23/2020 5:32:00 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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It's pretty obvious on the topic of Race, but I see it in other areas too. I would sum it up as follows: "You either agree with my opinion, or you're wrong."

Yes....that is the position of the Left. You should see the "diversity and inclusion" discussions I read.

10 posted on 06/23/2020 5:34:13 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Perhaps Agnes Gund should take a trip to Eastern Kentucky and discuss white privilege with the folks there.


11 posted on 06/23/2020 5:36:11 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother ( I sleep well knowing rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do harm)
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To: C19fan
our insidious negative beliefs about Black people that cause us to tolerate the reality that Black people are disproportionately harmed by policing and the legal system.


Author is delusional.
12 posted on 06/23/2020 5:37:46 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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White Lives Matter.


13 posted on 06/23/2020 5:38:18 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother
Perhaps Agnes Gund should take a trip to Eastern Kentucky and discuss white privilege with the folks there.


Author already has decided what she wants to believe based on her agenda, and doesn't need, nor want any facts.
14 posted on 06/23/2020 5:40:21 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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How queer. Muslims don’t have to denounce slavery, misogyny, or international terrorism. Democrats don’t have to denounce rioters, violence (assault, carjackings, gun violence) at their ‘peaceful’ protests or the antisemtism of Antifa and BLM.

There is a whole lot of silence and acceptance.

Screw TIME-LIES Magazine before they screw America.


15 posted on 06/23/2020 5:41:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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"I have learned since that everyone, but, particularly white people, must address our insidious negative beliefs about Black people"

You need to go out into the backyard and eat worms. That will fix you good. After that, sacrifice your first born. Then kill yourself. What is this "our" stuff? We (other White people) are not in this with you so don't expect support. BTW, "we weren't in it together when it was Covid either. I'm tired of buying the world a coke and singing in perfect har-mo-ny. Didn't like you before. Sure don't like you now.

16 posted on 06/23/2020 5:42:04 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
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BLM is just the latest camouflage for Communist revolution.


17 posted on 06/23/2020 5:50:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Same tactics applied in Rhodesia.


18 posted on 06/23/2020 5:59:58 AM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: C19fan

When congress passed affirmative action they basically said blacks were inferior and needed legal action to correct the problem.


19 posted on 06/23/2020 6:02:39 AM PDT by mulligan ( En bbnnEeThe tC)
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To: Travis McGee

Black is the new red.


20 posted on 06/23/2020 6:05:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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