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I'm typical French and my daughters' mother is African... I had to explain to my daughters the whole concept of race categories and I struggled because it seeme
by liotier 5y ago
I'm typical French and my daughters' mother is African... I had to explain to my daughters the whole concept of race categories and I struggled because it seemed ridiculous and aberrant to them - it is alien to their multicultural daily life. They would laugh at having to chose between being black or white. I don't understand how Americans tolerate being categorized this way. My category: "Other" - always.
- meiraleal 5y agoYou get to understand when you see the divide of prosperity, government support, unequal laws, school access, etc in numbers.
- skyde 5y agowhich unequal law? Is will smith victim of a law that a white actor would not?
- api 5y agoThe effects of entrenched discrimination in the US fade quite a bit when you hit upper middle class or above. They don't vanish entirely, but you have a lot more of a cushion and generally can avoid the problem areas. You can also fight back legally if necessary.
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- menzoic 5y agoThere are plenty examples of unequal laws. Look up how Georgia is disenfranching the black vote with recent laws they passed after the last election. We also have unequal enforcement of the law and unequal punishments.
- bilbo0s 5y agoThere are no unequal laws. Now I concede there is grossly unequal enforcement of laws. But the words on the page are just the words on the page. It's the people who enforce those laws in an inequitable fashion.
- menzoic 5y agoBefore it was illegal/unconstitional many unequal laws were passed. Now that there are explicit laws banning the practice, any newly passed unequal will not be explicit in its language otherwise it can easily be striken down and made unenforceable in court. This may be why you can't recognize modern unequal laws that do exist and likely will continue to be passed in the near future.
- skyde 5y agoMost people of dark skin color also don’t try to isolate themself from the rest of the population. But USA is special it is now trendy to try to tell other you are the biggest victim. And it’s easier for the black community to win this battle and officially be the biggest victim. I watched “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as a kid and absolutely loved it. But today’s show about black African American try drill in people heads that black are different and always victim of racism. It might be true but it make the tv show extremely boring for everyone black and white.
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- Bellamy 5y agoBrilliant! This made me happy. I also sometimes forget that there is actually this thing about whites versus blacks versus whatever colored people.
- EnlightenedBro 5y agoAnyone who notices race is the racist in the room.
- leephillips 5y agoGrowing up in the US, I learned to exist happily within a small rational subculture embedded withing a larger culture that is simply insane. The superstitions around “race” are just one aspect of that insanity. There is also the crudest form of Christianity that has ever existed, a reification of “democracy” that is part of a national religion and conflates what is popular with what is right, the prejudice against being educated....it goes on, and I could go on, forever.