My point is mate stuff like this naturally generates an "us against them" mentality.
The us against them has always been the elite and the rest of us but we allow them to distort that into whites against blacks, straight against LGBTQ, Christians against muslims etc.
I just think focusing on individual groups solves little in the grand scheme of things. Obviously America has a racism problem at the core of its society - so surely that core itself needs changing? Otherwise history will continue to repeat itself and more needless lives are lost.
the things we are seeing at the moment are the results of racism. Not the other way around.
I’ve never ever heard a black person say ‘I don’t see race’. Because they don’t have that privilege.
The fact is that people of colour do suffer from oppression. They do suffer from police brutality.
And when they try to protest it they are told they are just creating further division. Which is oppression in itself. It’s silencing.
Colin Kaepernick lost his job (and cant get another one) because he *knelt*. He was told it was an inappropriate protest. He was protesting police brutality and inequality. But there was not response other than to silence him.
The fact is there are differences between us all in many ways (race, class, sexuality) Ignoring them is not going to stop it. ‘Colour blindness’ is not going to prevent racism. It’s just going to perpetrate it. it’s dangerous to conflate or generalise. I used a black, lesbian woman with a disability as my example earlier because intersectionality is important. My posh girl mates are going to have a different experience from my poor boy mates. My black heterosexual mates are going to have a different experience from my white homosexual mates.
It’s not just about individuals and their personal views and behaviour. It’s about the institutions and systems in place.
