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| Topic | CBS to Ocasio-Cortez: 'As woman of color, why back an old white man? |
| CableZL 10/21/19 2:46:11 PM #15: | Yeah, honestly, this is one of the problems that sits deep within the black community. Our parents, their parents, their grandparents, etc. grew up in an era of government sanctioned discrimination and hatred from white people. My parents' generation were the ones to be growing up before the civil rights movement and were teenagers and young adults during/after the civil rights movement, desegregation, etc., so they still harbor a lot of distrust an resentment towards white people. They raised their children (my generation) with that distrust and resentment, which means those same sentiments passed down to a lot of us, with some people feeling stronger about it than others. I definitely grew up in better times than my parents did, but I still experienced racism growing up which gave validity to the sentiments my parents sometimes expressed about white people and "their" hatred towards us. Then you see stuff like the Charles Kinsey shooting, the court case about it, the Botham Jean case, the Atatiana Jefferson case, etc., and it only fans those flames that were never really extinguished. The United States as a whole is a lot better than it used to be for minorities, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Sundown towns still exist and there are documented cases of people in power being secretly either being card carrying members or showing a lot of affection for hate groups. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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