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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)My question is more of why the surprise when white people find out that young black people don't like/trust them as a GROUP. I'm sure she has white friends just like all racists have a black friend at work. But it goes deeper than that.
There are others like her that fear and simply don't trust white people. And white people seems shocked that they are not treated as individuals. We feel the same way and have forever, but it affects us worse and harsher. Our daily lives. Why the surprised that trust and love or like is not automatic coming from a young black person. It took me years to trust that white people were not goung to bring slavery back, especially when I was young during the riots. I still take them on a case by case basis and won't even try with many of them, and they don't bother with me. As a group, I see from them, manditory minimums, drug war, stop and frisk, things voted for by the majority that harms us most. I do not see why nobody understands her pain or point. Beyond her bigotry if you read what she said she has damn good points. We don't discount the truths of the founding fathers words because of THEIR racism but we ignore her point. She hated growing up under white supremacy. So did I. Most white folks never noticed there was a problem. So we don't trust. It is not automatic. Something happened to make her that way and it went on for years.