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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Basically, most of us white folks have spent the last fifty years trying to stop black people(and latinos, and Asian-Americans, and white folks who happen to be poor as well)from gaining any ground at all, and in spoiling any of the victories you've gained.
You're fully entitled to your anger(especially at those of my fellow whites who acted as if you owed them gratitude for restoring some, but far from all, of what they've stolen from you, or that you owed them support for things like the Vietnam War in exchange for signing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, as Lyndon Johnson apparently did).
I suppose the real question is how to put together a coalition of everyone who has been left out by the current arrangement, and how the trust needed to do that can be achieved. And I don't have the answer to that.
Not sure of what else to say.