Quote:You are one of the ppl I'm most interested in having prolonged conversation about social issues in this country. I don't mean that in an offensive way.


I must repeat, racism is not racial epithets and hoods. I'm really to the point now, I couldn't care less if I was called a [BAD WORD REMOVED]. That's because it's much bigger than that.


Short story. I went to see a friend over the weekend and showed him and his wife the BLM thread and this one. He tells me a story about one of his coach friends asking him to help him with a camp at a gym in the affluent part of town. During the day, my friend subs at schools in the area and works overnight at the high school. When they get to the gym, the head lady asks the guy to drop my friend and instead use a couple of the teenagers instead. He declines as he has brought my friend there specifically for his coaching prowess. The lady doubles down and says he needs to pass a background check. My friend begins producing his school issued id and the other guy assures her he knows him from working together at the schools. She balks saying the school's background policy is trumped by their own. My friend acquiesces. She tells him it takes three weeks to come back. The camp is 7 weeks long. The guy was never asked to do a background check. He was trying to put a little money in my friends pocket.


The issue isn't slavery or Jim crow. It isn't segregation or lynching or whatever else this current generation isn't directly responsible for. It's things like the above, blocking our ability to earn a living, it's decades of police brutality that we've said we've been enduring, access to loans to start a business, having to perform twice as hard as our counterparts to no avail. Yeah, we understand crime is a problem, but when are ppl going to see the very ppl who bring the crime to your attention are the same ones who enable it to happen. A lot salaries are greased by the crime machine. We're not asking anyone to wear a scarlet letter, just hear us out and help us make a change.


I failed to bring up education, but you get my point about racism.

 

This post sheds more light on what you're about. I think we're on the same side, but just at different levels of understanding. I apologies for the disrespect. It's the internet and you rarely come across the awakened. You still have much to learn, but I think you're going in the right directions for answers. Keep going. You'll understand soon enough.

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