America is in a great big therapy session following the murder of George Floyd. Some people in the therapy session want to deny we have a problem. Others want to deny the facts that led to the problem. Others want to accuse people of being the problem. And others want to talk about it so we can heal and move forward. That's how I see it. Feel free to disagree if you can do it without accusing or attacking. Otherwise just keep scrollin'
Im 41
When I was growing up, I never heard about race until probably 2nd grade. My teacher was black and had us watch the movie Mississippi Burning. It was sickening and horrifying to watch how people WERE treated. She taught all of us students we are all EQUAL, the color of ones skin does not dictate who they are. Looking back I don’t know if that was right or wrong for a 2nd grade teacher to show us that movie, but I think she had a positive message.
It seems our country has been fighting racism since it’s beginning.
Sometime in the last ten years or so, the message has moved from we are all equal. People are bombarded with the message everywhere how bad of a country this is. If you are white you are racist and should be ashamex
I don’t know how anyone can say this is a racist country that only whites can get ahead. You would literally have to ignore everything you see around you on a daily basis to believe this.
How is it a therapy session to have the entire population be bombarded with divisive messaging, and training constantly?
All across the country right now there are people in CRT training. They have to be taught to be ashamed of who they are, just because of how they were born. They are told they can be less racist if they join the movement. Silence is violence.
My wife’s parents came to America as refugees with nothing. They had 2 children when they arrived, my wife’s older sister and brother. My wife was born in California about a year after they came here. Her parents both ended up with jobs and own homes. My wife and here siblings have all done well also. She also has lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins that came here as well.
The story of my wife’s family has probably been repeated millions of times in this country.
How could it be possible that all these people of color came to this country with nothing, and then became a successful in such a horrible, systemically racist, oppressive country.
My wife and I live in a good neighborhood. We have both worked hard our whole lives, and tried to be pretty smart with our money. We are a mixed race couple. The neighbors one to the right are a black man and white woman. My neighbor’s the other direction I believe are from Pakistan. The next neighbor up from them is a white woman and an Asian man.
Last weekend I went to a wedding. It was a white man and a black man getting married. It was a large gathering of people of several races, and people from probably 80 years old down to babies.
Father’s Day weekend I did a family trip to the Oregon coast. We did a nice 5-6 mile hike each day, and then spent the evening in Seaside walking around and having dinner. Every hike, restaurant, or place we went was full of people of different colors and races. Lots of the couples were mixed race couples just like my family and lots of my neighbors.
If everything we get told everyday is true about how terrible this country is , how is any of what I have seen my whole life , and on a daily basis be happening. Both things can’t be true.
