We, the white people descended from, and as a group substantially benefiting from the racial hierarchy imposed by, the white people who established and maintained the oppressive acts of slavery/Jim Crow/segregation/white nationalism in the first place.
Very convenient: you’ll accept the residual social advantages of white racial privilege while denying that you bear any responsibility for making society more equitable.
More performed helplessness, also very convenient.
Nobody’s claiming that wealth and class don’t involve societal power, often to an extent that overwhelms other advantages in practice. But that doesn’t mean that the societal power of race is nonexistent.
manson1972, the problem I believe is that people don’t think you genuinely care or want to help. The tone of your posts has turned me off numerous times, as well as other people I assume. I’d like to think it’s a communication problem, because you don’t seem to be a bad guy.
That is both a lie and an excuse to not care about the one suffering. If it’s the other persons’ burden to pull himself out of the mess, and they doesn’t pull themselves out of it, than you don’t have to feel guilty about their suffering. I told myself the same thing when I felt guilty about all bad things I did to people who owed money for cocaine debts. After all, they got themselves into that mess, and they didn’t get themselves out, so I convinced myself that the horrible things I did to them where their fault, not mine.
It took me a long time to realize how wrong I was back then. I hope you do better.
Probably wasn’t mentioned because this is not a thread about how to make manson1972 not a racist but on how HoneyBadger is a racist. But you go on now. You’ve got the tools.
No need to condescend, I am VERY aware of what my ancestors perpetrated, and what even my parents championed. Holding the young accountable for the transgressions of their elders is stone age and unjust. Injustice alienates. Stop it.
So by this logic I should go out and find a Black family whom I deem to be less fortunate than myself and surrender my possessions, my career, ALL my copious social influence, my ill-gotten gains? I didn’t get what I have by knowing The Secret White Handshake developed by my ancestors. I got it despite being a complete and total buffoon in my youth, doing a little introspection and self-correction, and significantly changing how I relate to the world in order to get what I need.
This phrase is performed, divisive, and useless. Further, it is simply untrue and suggestive of a nonexistent hivemind in which everyone knows what you know, and experiences what you experience. I can’t decide if that makes you delusional or just immature. Maybe there’s a third meaning for which I am sure you will gleefully excoriate my not knowing.
I never said the societal power of one’s race is nonexistent, I’m just saying to the extent I feel I have any of it, I don’t use it and I find it deeply discouraging to have to face the accusation.