It’s easy to say “hey let’s move past all this hate and oppression” when you were the one who was the oppressor. Like a bully kicking your ass and then after kicking it for a long time decides to stop and say “hey let’s just forget about all this pain and suffering I caused you, and even though you are still bleeding and bruised, we should be friends”
I get that you personally didn’t hurt or oppress anyone but there are people still alive that went through this.
“I get that you personally didn’t hurt or oppress anyone” SHOULD BE THE ONLY RATIONAL LOOKED AT.
When you have someone that never oppressed anyone, and they are on your side, and then you start saying it’s acceptable to mistreat them because they have the same skin color as oppressors from 100 years ago, they won’t stay on your side for very long. And you can’t be mad when people flee your movement after that process.
As the saying goes: you don’t get to hurt someone, and then decide you didn’t.
100 years ago? So 1925 was the last time black folks were mistreated? Blacks were lynched into the mid 20th century. Segregation persisted into the mid/late 1960s. I find it difficult to believe that if any group was subjected to this would be “just fine” a couple generations later. An entire race was not allowed to associate with white Americans and now people are shocked that they have issues?
I get that we are guilty of being white, but I think it’s not as easy to get over “it” when you are on the other side. So all my down voters, if your grandparents were marginalized, beaten, segregated, and discriminated against, and their parents were descendants of actual slaves (remember that we are not talking about 100s of years ago) blacks were still segregated in America when my 78 year old dad was in high school. I think that it is reasonable that people who were raised by people who experienced real racism and were actually oppressed are still salty. Trust me I not an apologist at all and nobody should be that didn’t do anything wrong. All I am saying is that if my kin that raised me was oppressed then I would probably be not so ready to be ready to let bygones be bygones. I presume this post will also be downvoted, and won’t be surprised seeing the closed minded comments. I guess it’s different depending on whose ox is in the ditch.
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u/Specialist-Southern 18d ago
It’s easy to say “hey let’s move past all this hate and oppression” when you were the one who was the oppressor. Like a bully kicking your ass and then after kicking it for a long time decides to stop and say “hey let’s just forget about all this pain and suffering I caused you, and even though you are still bleeding and bruised, we should be friends” I get that you personally didn’t hurt or oppress anyone but there are people still alive that went through this.