I can’t believe I’m saying this, but you’re better than this track you’re going down. It may not be your intention, but you’re edging into territory reserved for our more…“uncolorblind” members, if you take my meaning.
I’m hoping I’m not being controversial here. Wouldn’t you agree that most whites, like most African-Americans, Latinos, and Asians, are not racists?
I agree that most people in general aren’t overtly racist. My point to you is that comments like “If only our media was as vigilant about liberty, or even all racism, as opposed to just racism by white folks” may not be the best way to express your concerns.
I’m not accusing you of being racist. But the tone of comments like the one I quoted could be misconstrued that way. That’s all I’m saying.
Either not quite, or just barely “most”. It’s a minority worldview, maybe even uncommon, but not rare.
No more common or more rare than racism among other groups. We can certainly agree that white racism is more harmful given the history and the fact that whites are the majority, but the media isn’t reporting that when they make receipts a national news story. Thus my point that focusing on things like institutional racism is useful. Focusing on individual people who aren’t even haters but just clueless accomplishes nothing.
I remember also complaining recently about a woman somewhere who had a show nobody listened to who said that a woman shouldn’t be President. Why was this a top trending story? Oh my, someone, somewhere doesn’t think a woman should be President! Let’s cover it!
Looks like protesters tried to disrupt a Trump event in KC now. Pepper spray and arrests all around.
If lefties are going to start trying to use this as a tactic they deserve what they get. Shutting down political events with threats of violence is un-American.
No.
No fucking way.
There is no way you honestly don’t see how this is all about race.
It simply is not possible.
Only if you agree that most whites don’t support Trump.
Hell, it would be nice to get some recognition of the fact most Republicans don’t support Trump.
So is shutting down protests just because you don’t like 'em.
Quite true. I don’t. ALthough support for Trump isn’t necessarily coming just from racists, and not all racists like Trump. I refer back to a cab driver I had who hated Obama and foreigners, was a birther, hates Trump, but likes Clinton. Racists like their entitlements too.
A young man from North Carolina went to a Trump rally for the giggles. And this is his report.
This just in: New footage from one of Trump’s rallies.
When half of Mississippi Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal, I’m far from certain that the “vast majority” of whites don’t have some racist views.
Whites are not unique. If racism is common, it’s common among all people, and thus all racist incidents are newsworthy, regardless of the race of the victim or perpetrator.
Whites are not unique, but the history of racial strife in the US did not affect all groups equally – not even close, obviously, and this might lead to differing levels of racial animus among the various groups today. I don’t know how many white people have racist views, but at least half of Mississippi Republicans do, and the 20% of Trump supporters who think slavery shouldn’t have ended do, etc.
Surely you’ve also researched the percentage of Mississippi blacks who are not in favor of interracial marriage?
That’s where we agree, the effect of white racism was greater, thus the emphasis on white racism by the media. That part is justified. What’s not justified is huge publicity for extremely minor offenses. Someone somewhere saying something racist is not headline news. But I guess part of that is that the media itself. Ignorant people make better fodder than the institutional racism of the media.
That’s okay, but that’s not what I was challenging – I was challenging your assertion that the “vast majority” of white people don’t have racist views.
Not Mississippi in particular, but nationwide, 96% of black people support the legality of interracial marriage, and every year that this has been polled black people’s support for interracial marriage has been significantly higher than white people’s.
So in terms of interracial marriage, white people nationwide are significantly more likely to have the racist view than black people. Thankfully, fewer and fewer people (white and black) each year hold these racist views, according to polling, though Mississippi Republican voters are obviously way, way behind.
That survey is not about legality of interracial marriages, the question was “Do you approve or disapprove of marriage between Blacks and Whites?”
Whether it should be legal is a different question entirely, one which far fewer would answer no to, presumably.