Racism Is Not A Republican Problem - 1230 Words

And that is my point how is that going to bring about change Not recognizing it has certainly not brought about change. Just recognizing that you have privilege isn t enough, but if you don t even get that far, you re not equipped with the intellectual tools you need to actually understand the issues, their historical context, or how to help alleviate them. instead of getting over the Leftist agenda I never brought in leftist politics into this discussion. I don t consider this a left/right issue, it s a human issue. barricaded with the Republican disenfranchised stances. Again, never mentioned Republicans here. Although I do think Republicans have a tendency to be racist, racism is not a Republican problem -- in fact, even†¦show more content†¦We just demonize them more.) no learning to accept life the way it was meant to be and acting on it is going to bring change. So you re saying that life was meant to be unequal and we just just accept it? Not gonna happen, dude. When Democrats talk about racism who is their prime target white people White people are not the target of racism. They re the beneficiaries. We talk about where white people stand because all too often, white people ignore their own role (which is something they can do, because they have *privilege* -- people of any other color are confronted with it day in, and day out.) if a conversation needs to be made the uncomfortable truth needs to be brought out. First thing I ve agreed with so far! And that is stage 2 of the political scheme to silence and distance people. Haven t seen any such scheme. Actually, people are able to be more outspoken now than they ever have before. The only opinions that are being fought against are those that promote inequity and inequality -- and, by the way, nobody is stopping anybody from presenting them. They re just getting more and more socially unacceptable. Stop glamoring the Democratic party or demonizing the Republican party or vise versa. I ve never glamorized the Democratic party -- I just tend to vote for them because the Republican party is repugnant. I ll gladly change my mind on that statement when they stop bringing hypocritical