Friendly reminder. We are living in 2019. There is no institutional racism. There hasn't been for a very long time. But, that doesn't mean that bigotry isn't rearing its ugly head... it is. Ideas are under attack. The thought police are watching you.
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Truth, that's why I said it's hard to prove, unless you have lived with it and understand the subtleties... Like learning a foreign language vs growing up with it.
I’ve encountered direct racism where there was no question of it. I’ve been beaten up and called racial slurs. I don’t have to guess.
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I mean, yeah, there is still that, but even that isn't as bad as the, kind where it's the double meanings, the you work here because we had to hire the token non white person, the looks like I'm gonna harm them just because I'm a black man, and we all see how the news portrays us
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Unfortunately there is a active force today to promote division and racism in the news and popular media. Instead of finding common ground more and more people are being driven apart.
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Racism in any form sucks, and shows the caliber of person engaging in it. Unfortunately, when whites, and especially white men, do it typically goes worse for those it's directed at because they hold the jobs the money and power. So they're able to do a lot more damage. Typically
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the wondering if the cop pulling me over will end my life and say he feared for his life. Not going into the upper class neighborhoods because I'm automatically suspicious.
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