So what do you call it when people are being hated on for the color of their skin? Sounds like the literal definition of racism to me. I'm just not that much of a snowflake, I don't care about motionless statues that have no tangible effect on my livelihood. If my kid asked I'd simply explain, they're gonna learn history anyway, not a big deal. Ha that's a convenient excuse, anytime a movement commits crimes it's "just the opportunist!" Like I was saying, given what started all this probably had nothing to do with race, I question whether or not this whole thing is opportunistic. Not really sure what point your last sentence is making, crimes aren't fake and made up by the media. |
Actually racism is when one race or set of people look down or believe another ethnic group is inferior to the other.
You do not care about something but you demean the people that do with the term snowflake. You do not have to care or even agree but your choice of words show a lack of understanding or even the basic sensitivity since it doesn't really concern you. Its not that your kids asked the question about the statue since you missed the point, its the fact that they have to ask a question why someone is celebrated as a hero, who promoted the discrimination, prejudice, racism of black people in America being prominently displayed in public places like a park or public building instead of a museum where the person can learn the history. Why as a black person in America you have to look upon that statue and know the person who put it there is celebrating your forefathers slavery. That would be like putting up statues of Hitler in Jewish communities and saying, don't be a snowflake its all history. While it means nothing for you, you still have to ignore it. You have to say to yourself this means nothing but actually it does. It means at one point in history and most of those statues were put in place during the 20th century, someone thought it was ok, to mass produce confederate solider as heroes and dot the south with their statues to celebrate their stance on slavery, discrimination, segregation and prejudice. While you can say to yourself no big deal, it still sends a message and to allow that message to be a statement within the south, in public places where people of all colors go to, should not be tolerated. Could it be that this is one of the reason you may be feeling the hate. When you hold on to your sins but attempt to leave out the bad parts and then promote it as history. There is a large group of people not very happy your ideal of history and the celebration of it was due to your acceptance of slavery and the celebration of it.
You call it an excuse because you will always easily follow what the media portrays. Its how this whole concept of black people being violent murdering race has propagated in American society. If you really care about people not getting pissed off that they riot out in the streets, being more proactive in caring about their issues they have stated for decades would be a way to prevent such incidents. Not sure where you get your news but I get it from a bunch of different sources, and what I see is a lot of white people mixed in these violent bit of damage and not all of them are protesters.
