Subject: Haven't had the spoons for this for a while, but let's see...
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Posted on: 2020-07-10 02:07:02 UTC
I appreciate your apology. Thanks.
Some of those questions are pretty big ones that properly deserve books or at least essays dedicated to answering them. On the understanding that I cannot possibly cover every aspect of my beliefs or thought process in a Board post, though, I'll try to sum up.
Peaceful protest, active political campaigning, that sort of thing.
All of the above, piecemeal. Over the years, I have learned things from books, from news sources, from magazine articles, from newsletters I receive, from people of color in my church community, from friends more involved than I am, from posts shared around the Internet, from the protest signs people write, from random people who live in my city, from the different ways different people live in my city and others I know, from the literal writing on the wall or the sidewalk... the learning never stops.
Let me answer a question with a question: Disagreeing on what point(s), specifically?
That's a great idea. How shall we do that without first acknowledging that we live in a system that conditions us all not to?
This question in particular feels like a trap, because it is impossible to answer fully, but assuming good faith here: One facet of racism, and the one I'm mostly concerned with in this discussion, is the persistence of systems designed to afford privilege to people of one race while disadvantaging people of another race. There can be no question that America was built upon such systems and that they persist in new forms today; arguing otherwise is like arguing that climate change isn't real. (I.e., people do it, but they're either naive/ignorant or deliberately profiting from it.)
~Neshomeh