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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]brer cat
(24,574 posts)should like, much less love, white people. Nothing in the history of this country up to and including today would inspire trust in the treatment of poc. Certainly many white people and relatively small groups of white people have made sincere efforts to improve the lives, opportunities, and status of poc, but the overwhelming evidence is that a majority of white people still consider themselves superior. We can shout #blacklivesmatter until we are blue in the face, but every day on the news we learn that black lives are cheap, disposable, inconsequential. After all, "they" are thugs, promiscuous welfare queens, lazy, and stupid. 'Course, we will pay a little money to watch them sing and dance, dontcha know, and some white men do like that promiscuous part whether with consent or not.
The republicans get away with their dog whistle politics only because a majority of white Americans allow it. Cops can have open season on black children and men only because a majority of white Americans allow it. The KKK and skinheads can still openly meet because a majority of Americans don't shut them down. These things do not happen in a vacuum; it must be considered acceptable by a majority.
No singing purple tyrannosaurus rex is ever going to make us love one another. Respect and trust have to come first. I was an adult before I knew a black person other than those who cleaned houses and did yard work. Both of my white granddaughters have black best friends, and that gives me hope that one day a generation will come along that doesn't look to skin color first. It just hasn't happened yet.