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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Well, there are some holes in your essay.
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What you want is a smoking gun. It's easy to say, "You can't stand there and tell me, 'That man is racist!' so, our system works.'" It's harder to take a deeper look at the problems our system has. And when I point out that it seems fucked up that black men overwhelming seem to be the ones who are rotting in jail for no reason, you tell me, "Well, that's a system that works." Pardon me if my response is: You can suck it.
Where's the incentive to change it? Answer?: There is none. As long as the system isn't as unfair to white people as it is to black people, I'll continue to hear reasoned responses that tend to ignore the underlying issues that seem so glaringly obvious to people like me.
Every time an injustice is done in the opposite direction, the world can't handle it. Hell, white people were crying in the streets over the injustice of the OJ trial. And whether or not OJ was innocent is not the point. I've never heard so much about injustice in my life, even though that shit has been going on for centuries in the opposite direction. I'll never forget all those white people with tears in their eyes when the verdict was read. And I'll never stop asking where those tears are for the black guy (in what seems like a long string of black guys, as I said in my first post) who just got out after serving 30 years for a crime it was just proven he did not commit.
TM
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I like when Thurgreed gets serious.
A woman who is part of a local peacemaking network with me sent me
this study (PDF file), "Structural Racism and Community Building," from the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change.** I just got it yesterday so I have not done any more than scan the beginning (it's 56 pages) but I think there is some thought-provoking stuff in there.
**I'm pretty sure this is not a conservative think tank but the institute is supported by some reputable foundations so though it may be a bit left for our resident conservatives, I don't think it is beyond the pale.
