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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
in re-reading it, yes, i do... and i apologize and phrase it another way.
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No apology necessary, I didn't think you really meant it as I read it.
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*White folks. for the most part. are generally viewed by a lot of people as wanting to hold the black populace down for some reason - that couldn't be further from the truth.
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Hmm. Don't agree that that's the general view, there's a
lot of institutionalised racism and societal inertia that creates this kind of narrative. Like everything else it's a lot more complex than this, but I think there's definitely in some states a bias against minorities that doesn't require or depend on the actual malignant personal racism that used to exist.
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Yes, there are whites who do not want any part of black success in America, some of whom would go out of their way seeking positions of power for the sole purpose of preventing it probably. but i have to tell you... of the hundreds of white males i socialize with, do business with etc, i cannot name one that feels that way.
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In my entire life I've met two.
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is that a less insulting and patronizing way to make the point?
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Definitely.
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because i certainly didn't mean to indicate that all blacks are ghetto trash that we need to make into something better. I see how my post could be construed as such.
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Aye, figured as much. No harm meant.
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what i was implying was that whites have this reputation of not wanting to see black success and - at least in the educated classes - that simply is not the case.
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Can only add that I agree it's not the case and disagree that it's a commonly held reputation. Then again I've not lived in the US for quite a while now.