Associating guilt to people from the actions of others? Serious?
Inconceivable, right? it's not like we as [White ]Americans have ever done anything like that
* Tulsa Race Riots.
* Japanese Internment camps from World War 2
* Gays and The AIDS scare
* 9/11 and anyone that "looked muslim"
* anyone labeled "a thug" because of the way they dress
Those are just some of the big ones. Yes, it's eye for an eye and it hurts everyone, but at some point you have to stop being a group of victims and defend yourself in the slightest way. And that defense of themselves will be seen as injustice regardless of the scale.
But then again, you're just going to ignore that list anyways.
Personally remembering with the 9/11 stuff, we didn't lock them up, but most of us didn't trust them. How else would that god-aweful "boot in your donkey, it's the American Way" song be as popular as it was. Yes, as a member of the lower-middle class white kid in Stillwater was paranoid and sang along with it like everyone else around me did. The sentiment made me feel safe at the time, so I fell in line lockstep.
Looking back, I'm ashamed at how I acted, and I want to prevent something like that from happening again. I WANT PEOPLE TO BE BETTER
So if I didn’t publicly condemn the shooter of the five Dallas cops last summer: I condoned it, and committed those acts myself.
You missed my "at best and at worst". This means that there is a spectrum with multiple variables. I don't know (or remember, if you bothered posting here) what your reaction to it was, public or private, so I cannot judge. I never asked you the questions.
Wow!
Where do you people get this stuff?
I don’t hear anyone condemning Van Jones for calling Trump’s win a “Whitelash”. I also didn’t hear President Obama, Jones’ prior employer condemning those remarks either. That definitely makes Obama a racist bigot, in your books right?
for someone that probably doesn't like being retaliated against, that felt like a fairly sloppy "you people"
And to make you happy, since it doesn't seem to happen often these days, then yes, by the narrow definition given above, they're racist. But then again, you might want to read over the post again because I said that EVERYONE is racist. Were I able to adjust my definition, I would say that you also need to take into consideration tone and history. But I'm sure there are flaws there, too.
I really wish that I lived in this fantasy world that everyone else lives in, but I see the makeup of our society crumbling like an Oklahoma bridge. It may not go today, it may not go tomorrow. But it's going to come down one of these days if we just keep patching potholes.