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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)Nobody has an obligation or duty to love anyone else, for any reason. Don't even have to love yourself.
As long as we group people together though, we'll have issues. If we don't take every human interaction on a case by case basis, which is probably impossible in a mass society, then there's always collective guilt for what some smaller percentage of the whole did, and nobody gets anywhere.
I don't know if there's an answer to the larger question. We're still a tribal species, our attempt at a global society notwithstanding. Wherever anyone's particular line is, whether it's color, age, nation, political party, economic class, whatever, we always draw it somewhere. There's always a difference between you and the other person. Your group, and their group. I don't know if it's possible not to have that.
Why should black people love white people? Why should white people love black people? Why should anyone care about anyone else? Why should anyone care about someone they'll never meet? I don't know. There's no objective argument for it.