Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone ISN'T the same though. If everyone were the same, then I, a white woman, would ALSO get followed around in a fancy clothing store instead of only the black women. If everything were the same I would ALSO get pulled over for driving yet doing nothing wrong.
If we don't see color, we can't see racism. If we can't see racism, how will we change it?
White teens, especially rich white teens, also get followed around in a fancy clothing store, fwiw.
Do you see age? Or class? Or only race?
Fine, is there any reason for them to follow around a middle aged lady then of any race?
they follow a lot of people
I dated someone who worked loss prevention at a common mall anchor store. They are literally trained to follow the top 4 groups of people who cause the most theft: minorities in general, groups of teens - especially minorities, people wearing bulky clothing - especially minorities, and women with large bags - especially minorities. There's a common theme there. All LPs with that store had to sign NDAs not to talk about anything they learned there for 3 years after leaving or being fired or while employed, but clearly, they didn't care about that rule, ha.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone ISN'T the same though. If everyone were the same, then I, a white woman, would ALSO get followed around in a fancy clothing store instead of only the black women. If everything were the same I would ALSO get pulled over for driving yet doing nothing wrong.
If we don't see color, we can't see racism. If we can't see racism, how will we change it?
When half of your color is out committing crimes then most logical people see you and know there is a 50/50 chance. It’s hard because of the barbell. And the crime side is actually a low SES and generational poverty/ crime thing. Thought people can fall off the wagon when that’s their role models.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing a 14 year old would have noticed color literally and what it means in history and society by now.
Try to make it clear that you value every person regardless of color but also acknowledge reality.
IMO the reason she thinking differently than me is because of the mother, I taught her well, but she now has different views than I do, and not sure if they are from the mother or social media. They might not teach CRT in school, but the kids talk about thinks that they shouldn't talk about
Ivan, most of your comrades have better English. You should work on it or you won’t last in this business.
Of course, people actually living in the US are not opposed to accurately teaching the centrality of race to US history. This is because we have read primary sources, such as the cornerstone speech.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech