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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
and the best thing for "black and brown" is continue to obsess with that history and blaming "the white man" for every problem instead of looking for a leg up, right?
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You make the incorrect analysis so suggest that structuralized racism in the economy, political machinery ,and society as a whole is somehow history or the past. Its not. It remains a current, active, and important reality. We still have a significant income gap between whites and black and brown folks. We still have a significant education gap. We still have an even larger political gap. We do NOT live in a post-racial society, we're still working on this. Further, as "minority" folks become a demographic majority in the nearing future, this does not somehow automatically imply that racism is negated. Black folks were a long time majority in many of the Southern Jim Crow cities, and that didn't exactly do them any good.
Nice try !@#$%!, but we still got a lot of work to do, and affirmative action programs within government, education, and yes the economy are still a critical tool towards reconciling the sins of the past and those sins which continue today as its legacy. If you don't want to receive any kind of benefit from such programs, fine and dandy, carry on in your wishful thinking world, but let other folks reap the benefit, its been long time due. You're right, there is a class war in this society. However, the economy has been racially structured so that those in the bottom class overwhelmingly tend to be brown and black. Until THAT changes, race is still a critical factor.
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didn't hellay have a "latino" mayor until a few weeks ago?
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One mayor, and yet his cabinet, his staff, and the rest of the city government remains predominantly white. Having a single latino mayor is much like our having a single black president, it points out ALL THE MORE HOW SUCH IS AN EXCEPTION, NOT THE RULE, and how we still have a problem.
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in any case "latino" is not a "race", it's really more of a culture, and not a very homogeneous one at that.
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neither are black folks, but America invented this peculiar concept of the One Drop rule, and the same concepts tend to be applied towards people with brown skin. To many white folks, Latinos remain the blanket "other" and usually are just confused as being just Mexican
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dead battery has direct experience of seeing the stupidity of centuries-old religious wars continuing to live in his day. because! there is a history! (and history must never change, right? grudges must be held for eternity.)
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Again, that is fine, but its an entirely separate situation. You're talking about a racially homogenous society, their beef remains almost entirely political and religious, and doesn't have the raciaized connotations that the American experience has, though in truth, the tapestry of post-colonial Europe is changing rapidly, and in the nearer future even Ireland may have to learn to navigate a racially diverse landscape much as the UK and France have had..
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have you read "mein kampf"? it's all about race and playing the victim card.
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