DiamondGooner wrote:StLGooner wrote:You kind of moved the goal post a bit with it all. This isn't just about police brutality, we are still cleaning up our racial issues from since this nation was birthed. And right now, it seems to be going backwards instead of making progress.
So this is what the rest of us outside of America don't get.
What issues does a black middle class kid born in America today suffer that's different from anyone else?
This victim mentality is trying to overcome natural biases you find everywhere in the world.
Leave poor people out of the convo because a poor black man in Chicago is no more disadvantaged as the Indian guy living in a village in Bangladesh, yet they will always complain, crime, lack of opportunities is no different than any slum in Brazil or Jamaica.
Tbh I find America's obsession with race disturbing, the rest of the world finds bringing up skin colour every 2 secs as rude.
So back to my original question, what does the normal black kid's obstacles differ from the Asian kid who works his nuts off, gets grades I could only dream about and ends up being a Dr?
Because what I'm getting from this is that certain African Americans are and always have been p*ssed about elite whitey sending his kid to the top schools, getting the best jobs, etc etc ............ well what about the Jews in America who do that? etc are you seriously expecting people to not privilege their own offspring?
Go live in Saudi and tell the Arabs not to pass their wealth and opportunities onto their kids and see the fat middle finger you get, that's like me going to China and thinking I can climb the ladder quicker than families who have roots going back 1,000's of years, news flash, you either earn it or inherit it ........... that is global not just in America, that is not WHITE Privilege, that is RICH privilege.
Now that's just my opinion / facts I see ......... now to my question, I'd be interested to get your view on it.
The issues for a young black kid in America is that they are born into a culture that looks at them with animosity, disgust, and for some probably as less of a human. They are looked at as criminals, and violent, and ignorant. They are racially profiled and discriminated against. Now am I meaning every black kid in America, or every white person is a racist? Of course not. But there is an underlying sense of looking down on minorities here, and I personally think that black people have it a tad worse than other minorities here in the US. Statistically it's harder for blacks to get jobs, to get accepted into prestigious schools, especially jobs that have authority or power.
Racism never went away in this country. It was just swept under the rug, and luckily the majority of society or at least the right people that control our society decided to give them equal rights, at least on paper anyway.
The fact that other people in different countries and cultures have it far worse has nothing to do with our issues here. I'm not stating that the average black American is the most mistreated on earth, I'm not trying to compare, so not sure where you're going with that, but that seems like an irrelevant point. It's almost like you're suggesting they have no right to protest or complain because there are other people that have it far worse in life than them, and that is obviously ridiculous. Also, to your point about passing your wealth and privilege off to your children. I don't think I ever stated anything about that or that families shouldn't do that, nor have I heard the black community say that either. If they complain about white privilege, I've always gathered that it's more to do with how society sees the white man and treats them, than anything about money or inheriting it. So again, I think you're missing my point, and whole point of protesting in general.
I don't pretend to have the answers to stop racism, I do however have an idea. Get rid of the word race. I believe by calling each other different names, our minds automatically think of each other as different. We are all human, we just have different skin pigmentations, and cultures. That's how we should look at each other in the future, and teach our kids to look at each other. It would probably take generations upon generations to change that in our society, but to me that would be a good way to try and help stop it all. Because as you know, kids aren't born racist. It's learned, it's learned from society and watching their parents, friends, peers, TV, news. In many ways we are taught what to think instead of how to think.