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This is the bullshit that I'm hearing more and more often of late. People of color claim that they literally cannot be racist, because "only white people can be racist". This attitude is going to lead to some very, very bad results if people don't pull their heads out of their asses pretty damn quick.
Part of the problem is, is that if any person of color admits that they're just as racist as everyone else (and I do believe that EVERYONE is racist), then they also have to admit to culpability for their own racist attitudes, words, and actions. But so long as "only white people can be racist" they have a free pass to be just as shitty as they like to people paler than them, and should any of their victims complain, well, the victims are clearly racist and ignorant.
This trend, if it continues and continues to grow, is going to lead to some awful outcomes. Racial violence will increase, instigated by all 'sides', and will lead to martial law at city and state levels in the worst places first, followed by martial law at the federal level as the violence keeps increasing both in scope and frequency. I would not be surprised to see a repeat of the Japanese concentration camps a la WWII, but on a much larger scale. People of color will not fare well in this scenario. Some enclaves in larger cities might be able to hold out for a while, but the end result is that surviving people of color, of all ethnicities, will be viewed as at best second class people, and at worst will be labeled en masse as domestic terrorists.
It frightens, saddens, and makes me angry how easily that bigoted narcissist that somehow wound up as president was able to convince the American people to undo 50 years of civil rights progress, and how willing so many of them are to make violence their first choice.
I don't want to see this future. I want to live in a nation that I can be proud to be a citizen of, where all people, no matter their ethnic or cultural background, are decent to each other and willing to work together to make the country we live in better for all of us and our children.
Part of the problem is, is that if any person of color admits that they're just as racist as everyone else (and I do believe that EVERYONE is racist), then they also have to admit to culpability for their own racist attitudes, words, and actions. But so long as "only white people can be racist" they have a free pass to be just as shitty as they like to people paler than them, and should any of their victims complain, well, the victims are clearly racist and ignorant.
This trend, if it continues and continues to grow, is going to lead to some awful outcomes. Racial violence will increase, instigated by all 'sides', and will lead to martial law at city and state levels in the worst places first, followed by martial law at the federal level as the violence keeps increasing both in scope and frequency. I would not be surprised to see a repeat of the Japanese concentration camps a la WWII, but on a much larger scale. People of color will not fare well in this scenario. Some enclaves in larger cities might be able to hold out for a while, but the end result is that surviving people of color, of all ethnicities, will be viewed as at best second class people, and at worst will be labeled en masse as domestic terrorists.
It frightens, saddens, and makes me angry how easily that bigoted narcissist that somehow wound up as president was able to convince the American people to undo 50 years of civil rights progress, and how willing so many of them are to make violence their first choice.
I don't want to see this future. I want to live in a nation that I can be proud to be a citizen of, where all people, no matter their ethnic or cultural background, are decent to each other and willing to work together to make the country we live in better for all of us and our children.
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