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Systemic racism in the USA: Are whites "guiltier" if they had slavery in their past?
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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 77681478" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>At the end of the day, none of what you said actually matters in this particular situation. Those are just self-satisfying talking points circulating among conservatives.</p><p></p><p>The institution of slavery in America does have continuing negative effect to this day on black people in America that slavery nowhere else had or has. The laws and policies of the Jim Crow era had the intentional purpose of continuing those negative effects right into the 1960s, right to the living memory of the Boomer Generation...which is certainly still here. It's the continuing effect that matters.</p><p></p><p>The critical point, though, is that there is nothing more now the government can do to remedy those effects...the remedy is a process internal to the black community, internal to each black person. That's why when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do to help, Malcolm X replied, "Nothing." He preached consistently to black people that although slavery and Jim Crow had left us with a dysfunctional culture, it was up to us to correct that dysfunction.</p><p></p><p>I don't know, though, how black people as a whole can get there through identity and victim politics. That is a specific and identifiable salient of the Critical Theory politics that is insinuated itself pretty thoroughly into liberal American society since the 60s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 77681478, member: 326155"] At the end of the day, none of what you said actually matters in this particular situation. Those are just self-satisfying talking points circulating among conservatives. The institution of slavery in America does have continuing negative effect to this day on black people in America that slavery nowhere else had or has. The laws and policies of the Jim Crow era had the intentional purpose of continuing those negative effects right into the 1960s, right to the living memory of the Boomer Generation...which is certainly still here. It's the continuing effect that matters. The critical point, though, is that there is nothing more now the government can do to remedy those effects...the remedy is a process internal to the black community, internal to each black person. That's why when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do to help, Malcolm X replied, "Nothing." He preached consistently to black people that although slavery and Jim Crow had left us with a dysfunctional culture, it was up to us to correct that dysfunction. I don't know, though, how black people as a whole can get there through identity and victim politics. That is a specific and identifiable salient of the Critical Theory politics that is insinuated itself pretty thoroughly into liberal American society since the 60s. [/QUOTE]
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