Part of the problem

CapitalCitySaint said
Since I'm a woman and can relate to being generalized on my abilities because I'm a woman, I was not taking the OP in just a black vs white perspective. I'm looking at it from a "my/your/any person's abilities being judged by their race or gender. The **** needs to stop, regardless of your race, color, religion, sex, age. Humans do the impossible, or at least - what they've always been told was impossible for a person in their circumstances - all the time. We ought to know better by now.

I agree.

But is this really "part of the problem?" It might be part of a problem, but calling it part of the problem is a little bit disrespectful to people who have had to deal with systematic oppression where the stakes are their lives and livelihoods rather than some numbskull Deion Sanders thinking they might be slow.

bonnjer said
Yes, it's part of the problem because he's sitting here saying "oh, I can't say that on TV" and the others are just laughing about it. Is it to the level of blacks getting shot and killed? Nope, not even close, but when are we going to come together on this issue? I'm guessing never, which is sad.

I think if we're ever going to "come together" so to speak there needs to be a lot of hard truths faced, but to me white guys getting made fun of for being slow is so trivial in the big picture. And I'm also guessing never, FWIW, that sort of thing is just not something that humans are very good at, in the history of civilization as far as I'm aware of.

No disrespect intended if I came at it a little too strong.