Its evident there's tension and anger..I can even see it cross over into the forums.
I think one obvious step is to of course hear each other out and make an effort to understand each person's point of view. However, the problem with that is that things can get heated really quickly and just deter from the intended goal.
Equality is what everyone is obviously crying from their soul, from whites concerning proper news coverage when it comes to black on white crimes..or just crimes period... To blacks with simple justice concerning white on black crimes ( these are just *some* of the things I heard) ...
However to do this it would require an unbiased mind...still a start would be nice.
Serious answers..only..
No pot stirrers.
Everyone is free to have an opinion..just let it add something to the goal of the thread.
The whole problem with this is that people still think in terms of skin colour. In order to fix all racial problems, one simple thing needs to be done: people need to stop looking at other people's skin colour. After all, we are all truly equal, are we not? Therefore, if we are all truly equal, why should we care to differentiate between people of different skin colours?
How exactly do you do that? For example, when a journalist reports a murder, he should not say, ‘A black man has been killed by a white man.’ Instead, he should say, ‘A man has been killed by another man.’ Their skin colours are not relevant. As a corollary, the guys at the Black Lives Matter movement need to stop protesting over every black person who dies at the hands of a white person, not only because this is extremely disrespectful of white lives (since they never do the same when a black man kills a white man), but also because they are unjustly accusing every white man who kills any black man of being racist (when, obviously, the reason may have been anything other than racism).
Speaking of Black Lives Matter, here is another example: stop saying ‘Black lives matter’. Seriously, stop saying that black lives matter. Whilst it is true that black lives matter, saying it implies that black lives somehow matter more than white lives. Too much emphasis is placed on ‘Black lives matter’ and too little on ‘White lives matter’, suggesting that it is somehow more important to defend black lives than white lives and, consequentially, that black lives matter more than white lives. I mean, seriously, if I were to start a movement called ‘White lives matter’, what would happen? Would I be commended by my efforts to fight racial discrimination against whites, or would I be condemned as racist?
The reason why I am commended if I say ‘Black lives matter’ but criticised and accused of racism if I say ‘White lives matter’ is due to a faulty idea embedded in the minds of some people: that, because blacks are largely discriminated (which is false itself), their lives needs to be upheld and defended more than white lives (a nonsensical conclusion); and that, therefore, anyone who defends white lives is defending lives who need no defence any more, because those are the ones oppressing black lives (again, false). This is neo-racism. Racism used to mean, ‘Because I am white, I am intrinsically more valuable than you, who are black.’ Nowadays, neo-racism means, ‘Because I am black and you are white, you are oppressing me; therefore, the value of my life needs to be defended more than yours.’ In the end, this simply means that the Black Lives Matter supporters are simply racists in the opposite direction: not only are they seeing racism against blacks where none exists, but they are implying (if not outright stating it explicitly) that black lives matter more than white lives. This is the basic definition of ‘racism’.
