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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)I'm the person to be making suggestions necessarily, since I have benefited from white privilege and not suffered because of it.
That said, I think a serious national conversation about what 300+ years of white supremacy has done to blacks and native Americans should commence forthwith. At the risk of being blunt, I think maybe white Americans should just STFU for a bit and listen with humble hearts.
On a practical level, I think some form of socio-economic affirmative action might go a long way to starting to stitch together the social fabric anew. It seems self-evident that purely race-based forms of affirmative action have thus far offered little benefit to citizens living in depressed and marginal areas like Watts or other urban and rural blighted areas. But I offer that possibility tentatively, more as a recognition that reparations are long overdue and not so much as a specific prescription.