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> There is nothing white people can do to fix this. Blacks have always decided what kind of culture they want to have and they will continue to do so. This is
by hackuser 12y ago
> There is nothing white people can do to fix this. Blacks have always decided what kind of culture they want to have and they will continue to do so.
This is so clearly untrue that I wonder if it's worth pointing out the obvious. In fact, black-skinned Americans rarely have had the option of self-determination, and mostly that is due to white-skinned contemporaries who enslaved them, forced them into ghettos, segregated them in public life, and denied them political rights, and social and economic opportunity.
More concretely, in the southeastern United States, blacks were slaves (something local whites fought a war to try to preserve; take a step back and think how bizarre that is) and after that oppressed: They couldn't eat in the same restaurants, go to the same schools work the same jobs, live in the same neighborhoods, sleep at the same hotels; talking to a white-skinned women could result in a black-skinned male being lynched. Even today, there is much discrimination; consider whether they can join certain college fraternities in Oklahoma, for example, or walk the streets without being harassed or worse.
To suggest social segregation is due to the choices of black-skinned Americans is absurd.
- whatsgood22 12y agoThis is a bunch of anecdotal bullshit, crime rate statistics paint a much different picture
- Crito 12y ago> "I have had some black friends over the years who get berated by other blacks for "acting white."" What can white people do to fix this specifically?
- burkaman 12y agoWell, lots of white people perpetuate the same stereotypes, so obviously if you do that, stop it. And you can call other people on their bullshit if you ever hear it. Assuming you never encounter this particular type of racism, it's still all connected. Addressing any type of discrimination and racism helps solve the general problem, which this "acting white" stereotype is just a symptom of. I think it's a little disingenuous to look at these individual symptoms and say "nothing I can do". "Nothing I can do about prison populations, those people made their own choices." "Nothing I can do about poverty, I already support them through taxes, they can improve themselves if they want to." "Nothing I can do about education inequalities, they can apply to college just like I did." etc. Not saying you share these opinions, but you hear them a lot. And it's not like black people have no responsibility here, but there's plenty to be done by everyone.
- spacemanmatt 12y agoWe could make it more acceptable to be black.