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Yes, it's a thorny question, but that doesn't mean it's intractable. People continue to deny to this day that slavery, Jim Crow and redlining have any relevanc
by tacomonstrous 8y ago
Yes, it's a thorny question, but that doesn't mean it's intractable.
People continue to deny to this day that slavery, Jim Crow and redlining have any relevance for the state of racial politics and racial inequity in this country. "It's all in the past." If not reparations, the least we can do is come to real terms with our history. The number of educated, upper class Americans I know that refuse to is very frustrating.
- weberc2 8y agoYou posited that if one can inherit wealth, they should be able to inherit social responsibility as well. Computing one's inherited social responsibility is the intractable problem, not making the world more racially equitable. > The number of educated, upper class Americans I know that refuse to is very frustrating. I've found that people are very willing to improve race relations if you present it as "here's an opportunity to help some people" and not as a "everything you have is because of your skin color so you basically should give everything you have to other people". Lots of people go around pushing the latter view, so you have to be careful to distinguish your message from theirs if you want to get reception.
- tacomonstrous 8y ago>I've found that people are very willing to improve race relations if you present it as "here's an opportunity to help some people" and not as a "everything you have is because of your skin color so you basically should give everything you have to other people". I'm not sure what this is referring to. I was talking simply about recognizing and acknowledging historical and socio-political patterns that led to the current situation.