Some say that racism and bigotry will subside and then go away if we stop talking about it
But as the Civil War began, many states had almost half or more of their population in slavery and were attempting to expand slavery into free areas of the USA.
Even after the slaves were emancipated, Debt Peonage victimized blacks yet again, after a period of gains in the post Civil War era.
Almost a century after the Civil War began, blacks in the former confederacy couldn't vote and were segregated from whites by force of law.
In South Africa, Apartheid developed and got far worse before being toppled.
The idea that we can't use the "race card" and overall notions, seemingly popular exclusively among white people (disclaimer: I am white) because we perpetuate racism by referring to it or calling it out...the idea that not speaking of racism because that will help it go away.
That's nonsense. It doesn't work.
If you think it's all gonna get better or not happen again if we just stop talking about it.
6 million more Jews would be alive if that were the case.
Things don't always get better. Things often get worse, so we must be on our guard to defend justice and equality at every moment.
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It hasn't gotten nearly as much better as I'd hoped 40 years ago, if it's gotten better at all.
This is a thoughtful post.
and in my mind, when I posted, it was among the things I was thinking of, in addition to race.
and as for the movie, there was some attention to the specific horrors that female slaves faced.
