oh idea in the interest of racial Comity, an invitation for all ppl of Color I am a white person! AMA about white people
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I am having a lot of fun with this and further i believe this thread is Healing America (extemely white thing to want)
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ok now comes the hard ball. How much do you see the socioeconomic state of African Americans as a product of segregation and institutional disenfranchisement that occurred from it (bad mortgages, redlining, education-blocking, generational wealth gap, etc.) And ->
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Do you see contemporary issues relating to race as a government failure to make amends and uplift the African-American community? If so, what is to be done?
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hahahaha you absolute monster I will hold to my commitment but it will take me several tweets
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Theory: white people have a variety of beliefs about this Lower class white people tend to believe that in aggregate black people are not raised right, don't work hard enough, break laws, etc Middle class white people are just scared and confused and don't want any trouble
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Upper middle class white people are also confused if less scared. Unfortunately they drive Policy and can't admit they have no idea what is going on. They also desperately want to be Good. UMC whites are the heirs of deep Quaker and Puritan tradition.
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(Upper class white people know better than to have actual public opinions about these things probably, idk, who fucking knows about them)
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Ultimately I don't think white people have any idea what they're doing. Lower class ethos as manifest in badly designed police forces results in all kinds of horrible shit, UMC ethos drives flailing badly designed social policy disconnected from reality;
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and the failure of those policies leads to the usual conclusion that the policies failed not because they fucking sucked ass but because UMC has Sinned and God is punishing them and they need to repent
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In summary I have no fucking clue but as usual white people are making things worse
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Tbh my biggest frustration from all of this aside from straight up racists and Nazis is the inability of people to grasp the factors that got us here to begin with. All of the real reform and shit gets tied up into cultural noise and fizzles out.
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