MasPan Wrote:Good to know that I'm not completely insane and that others see the same bullpomegranate that I see in this - I was scared for a moment that maybe I had lost it...
Look at it this way.
There are some black people who hold all white people accountable for the actions of some white people. Most of those "some" people are dead at this point. Slavery ended in the 1850s, segregation ended in the 1960s, and many white people in America were either not in America or not yet born at the time Martin Luther King's civil rights movement pushed the major rights stuff through. I personally came to America in 1990, but to people like Jesse Jackson I am "whitey" and "oppressor," though I had nothing to do with anything that happened to blacks in this country.
Is that really so different than a white guy looking at a black guy and concluding he, (along with all blacks,) is a criminal, lazy or dishonest because some black people are these things?
Black people are not victims, and they're not innocent any more than any other group of people in America. Anyone -- white, black, Hispanic or Asian -- can be racist. Statements to the contrary are self-serving political propaganda.