The problem of White Supremacy - Spinoff from Buffalo Shooting thread
You're saying there's more?
"Wait, there's more proof?!" LOL.
This is why I said what I said. Good white folks, like yourself, and I mean that genuinely, not sarcastically, are the problem. You know systemic racism exists. But, instead of your default being to believe us, it's always, "eh, I don't see it, I don't experience, I'll need to see more." And, even if you get more, it's "well, I would handle it like this" or "I wouldn't do that."
Until yall become real allies in this fight, the status quo will remain just that. I mean you had the nerve to say this:
Logically, if that happened to my child, my first assumption isn't that my child was purposefully snubbed.
I, mean, that's a bit Mufasa talking to Simba, aloft Pride Rock isn't it? "All you see is yours, except that one spot. Elephant graveyard. You can't go there." You really think Daddy zebra is having the same conversation with Zebra Jr. "If that happened to my child..." That's the whole point! It's not happening to yall/your kids! Of course your assumption is that it isn't purposeful. If it does happen, it probably wasn't. Unfortunately, minority parents don't get to make that assumption. Sooner or later, yall are gonna have to accept our experiences are different. We know when it's benign and when it isn't because it regularly happens to us. WE, one more time, WE know the difference. You gonna believe us or nah?
Plenty of folks of all demographics feel racially slighted at times. That doesn't mean they're always right.
I'll take "Nah" for $1000 Alex! "It happens to all of us!" "We all go through it!" Like I said, if we all live long enough to see that societal shoe on the other foot, keep that same energy. Remember, we need more proof and if that's provided, we all go through it.