Got your attention right?
This perennial question has been on my mind considering my co-workers and I tend to discuss socio-political issues. What is common outside the internet is, when white nationalists do things terrible towards people of color, and when we (we as people of color) draw attention to the issue of racism brought against us, thr comment automatically deflects "what about black on black crime?"
(Again there is no such thing as black on black crime, there is only crime, criminals of African-American origin do not attack other African-Americans based on race fyi).
Or as a reader of news articles and unfortunately a reader of yahoo articles, the comment section is filled with racism. I notice a lot of my fellow co-workers tend to ask stupid questions like "why do a lot of blacks complain about racism so much?"
I usually give off the sarcastic response stating that Jim Crow was only in the 1940's. I am 35, so the residual effects of racism are still there however I notice fellow white Americans don't want to discuss it in the sense of acknowledging the grievances of people of color.
Fast Forward to Trump's election
Charlottesville, and now recent the young African-American soldier who died and whose wife is speaking out, I am reading online and hearing some offline comments, about blaming Antifa and more recently online at least, the recently deceased soldiers wife.
I am curious as a 35 year old black man who has had to answer for what other blacks do, and who call out what other blacks do, why aren't white Americans doing the same? It seems like a pot calling the kettle black type situation.
Have I taken political science? Yes.
The last time you checked progressive liberalism is not equated with throwing rocks or violence? We can argue the many types of liberals all day long but the point is that white people DO acknowledge racism by other whites and white people are doing something to fight it.
Did I read your original post? I did. Your co-workers brought up the black on black crime issue. You argue that there is no black on black crime, that there is only crime.
African Americans do not attack people simply because they are black? Maybe that is true but they do attack white people for being white.
http://fox40.com/2016/09/12/4-arrested-in-string-of-el-dorado-hills-home-invasions/
How many more black on white crime links do you want me to produce? There are thousands.
Your co-workers ask "Why do blacks complain about racism so much?" I can't speak for others but I don't like being blamed for something I did not do. Also, my family came to the US from 1850-1907 and lived in the northern states. They were farmers and never owned any slaves. So I'm not responsible for slavery and neither is my family but I grew up being accused of something that my family did not do.
I also think that people, not just black people, love over using an excuse. It's not their fault, it's those people over there or the government or the President or this or that.
You read something about the recent African-American soldier who died? Did you also read anything about the three white soldiers who died in that same attack? Probably not, right?
You have had to answer for what other blacks do? And whites have to answer for what other white people did hundreds of years ago.
When are blacks going to apologize to the Jews for enslaving them in Egypt 2,500 years ago?
