(06-07-2020, 09:49 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(06-07-2020, 04:01 PM)Sammy Wrote: If I weren't already E-Married to Bchbunnie4 (I love that girl) I would "kneel", and propose. I probably suck at being able to articulate the way you just did. White does not equal racist. I wish we (white people) were given more credit, but chances are we will be vilified because of our skin color. As long as one white person is racist, we all will be racist. Horrible for all skin tones ... How do we convince each other we aren't an enemy?

 


I don't try to convince anyone, I just listen. We won't learn anything from each other if we don't listen to what each other is saying. I believe for myself the fact that I don't see color when I see people is why I've heard and seen all kinds of things but I've never really listened. It's hard to understand a thing that is completely foreign to us. Unless we want to learn it's going to stay foreign. Most of us prefer to stay in our lane and not rock the boat because we've got enough on our plates. 

And that's the problem. The boat needs to be rocked. 

At the very basic level it's like this: White folks don't understand the issues of the black community because we don't experience them. Black folks don't seem to understand why we don't understand. If I'm wrong someone can correct me. It is a lot deeper than that but you have to start somewhere. The point is to start. Everything else will fall into place if BOTH sides can come to the table and listen and learn.