No. of Recommendations: 11
"there's a whole host of behaviors, positions on issues, and language you have to observe in order for the progressive base of the party to deem you to not be racist. And I think a lot of young men - and especially non-college young men - don't have that."
I remember back in the '80s, when The Cosby Show was the top rated show in America. It was
not a portrayal of the average Black family in America, but it did show Black people dealing
with the some of the same issues and frustrations as every family in the USA dealt with
( albeit, the Cosby family was high income ). I had friends who absolutely hated that
Blacks were "grabbing the spotlight". And The Cosby Show might have led to the social opinion that "Blacks were Cool", along with hip hop, the NBA and NFL, etc. And then Madison Avenue started depicting interracial couples and even families in their commercials. I had White friends who were not happy at all over that. Remember some of them saying words to the effect "I'm not going to have that bullshit forced on me ".
I spent a fair amount of time playing hoops in the Black part of town, and I was definitely
the minority, if not the only White person there. I was known to a lot of them, but by no means friends ( went to different schools, lived in different part of town ). After awhile, I got
the distinct impression that most ( not all, lol) of them liked me. The games got pretty
rough, you definitely didn't want to be perceived as a punk ( soft ), but it all went
pretty good, most of them time. Most important thing I learned from all of that was not
becoming a better basketball player, it was learning what it felt like to be The Minority, even if was only for a couple of hours.
Racism is a lack of critical thinking, it's letting emotions override logic.
So it is right up there with everything else festering just beneath the surface in America.
I know for a fact that there are White people struggling out there. But it s a class struggle, not a race struggle. Whites need to learn that. Or MAGA gonna be around till the Country burns down.
