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*chuckles*
Watching non-black folks talk about race is amusing because they always want to minimize the impact of it.
'oh it's just a factor'
Nah, it's THE factor. How else do you think conservatives in America have gotten white people to consistently vote against their own interests?
Read about the Southern Strategy. Nothing galvanizing white support like racism. Nothing. Not jobs, not healthcare, no education.
It's racism.
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White 'liberals' and 'progressives' and their tokens are so dedicated to the idea that it has to be something other racism that has put America in the position that it's in.
Yes, it's an economic issue. Yes, it's a class issue. But history has shown us time and time again white people will disadvantage themselves to make sure Black Brown and Native folks don't get what they have.
That's not a class or economic issue.
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To quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;"
Even he saw the problem.
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