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So your response to a person with brown skin say that their experience doesn't matter? Why doesn't it matter because you read that they where lucky or that you

So your response to a person with brown skin say that their experience doesn't matter? Why doesn't it matter because you read that they where lucky or that you experienced something different?

BEEdwards 5y ago
I say it from my own personal experience as a light skinned black person, I've seen how the police laser focus on my dark skinned friends and, I've seen the subtle differences in behavior displayed by white people in their presents. So yes they are lucky to have not experienced it.
- rayiner 5y ago
  I suspect that it’s not luck, but rather than the racism that exists in America isn’t directed at brown people generally, but Black people specifically. And while I’m fully supportive of combatting that, I’m not okay with schools telling my brown daughter that she faces systemic racism that she doesn’t. We shouldn’t project the Black American experience and pedagogy designed around that onto all brown people, which is what we’re on the path to doing. It’s not actually true and we should be truthful with our kids. By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well.
  - kongin 5y ago
    >By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well. That's ok, by then they will be white. Just like how the grand children of the victims of the holocaust are both white and Nazis at the same time.
throwaway210222 5y ago
> … or that you experienced something different? Surely that makes it 1:1 ? A tie, a dead-heat. Unless once person's anecdotes count more? Is that what you want?
- JanneVee 5y ago
  No I was rather inquiring if it was performative erasure of someones experience or just some kind of jealousy.

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So your response to a person with brown skin say that their experience doesn't matter? Why doesn't it matter because you read that they where lucky or that you

by JanneVee 5y ago

So your response to a person with brown skin say that their experience doesn't matter? Why doesn't it matter because you read that they where lucky or that you experienced something different?

BEEdwards 5y ago
I say it from my own personal experience as a light skinned black person, I've seen how the police laser focus on my dark skinned friends and, I've seen the subtle differences in behavior displayed by white people in their presents. So yes they are lucky to have not experienced it.
- rayiner 5y ago
  I suspect that it’s not luck, but rather than the racism that exists in America isn’t directed at brown people generally, but Black people specifically. And while I’m fully supportive of combatting that, I’m not okay with schools telling my brown daughter that she faces systemic racism that she doesn’t. We shouldn’t project the Black American experience and pedagogy designed around that onto all brown people, which is what we’re on the path to doing. It’s not actually true and we should be truthful with our kids. By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well.
  - kongin 5y ago
    >By 2060, 40% of the country will be Hispanic or Asian. Our overall approach to race issues must accommodate their reality as well. That's ok, by then they will be white. Just like how the grand children of the victims of the holocaust are both white and Nazis at the same time.
throwaway210222 5y ago
> … or that you experienced something different? Surely that makes it 1:1 ? A tie, a dead-heat. Unless once person's anecdotes count more? Is that what you want?
- JanneVee 5y ago
  No I was rather inquiring if it was performative erasure of someones experience or just some kind of jealousy.