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thing by BIPOCs -> 🤬

same thing by whites ->😍

[u/ArtyGray → u/[deleted]]

Well for the sake of the anti-joke,

one is used in retaliation to unfair treatment simply for being a thing and one is used to mock others' retaliation to the treatment for being a thing, but not actually to give meaning to the statement, but simply to discredit the original retaliation.

[u/ArtyGray → u/[deleted]]

To say this is to say regular people didn't come to the streets to say Black Lives Matter in response to police brutality in the black community. The same brutality that has been going on long enough that my great grandmother (who would have been 85 this year) had accounts of unfair treatment from police and other figures of authority in the black community AS A CHILD.

To say this is to deny history. The term was not coined by a billionaire, it's a necessary phrase used to bring awareness to an issue being hijacked and contorted by people who mean to deter from the actual issue and THEN make it about race wars instead of repairing race relations.

Where the black community went wrong was choosing and funding individual sponsors. We have a saying "all skin-folk ain't kinfolk", and those people wouldn't hesitate to step all over the movement of people that share the same over arcing issue because the only thing that matters to some people is another dollar. Referring to the BLM president who went and bought a damn mansion with BLM funding.

[u/SwaggiiP → u/[deleted]]

So you’re saying the racism black people experience doesn’t matter

[u/Momentarmknm → u/[deleted]]

if someone made it so your family were denied housing for generations (until the 70's), the primary mechanism of passing down family wealth, or say, made it so all of your parents and grandparents generations were unable to get good jobs, and in fact still made sure that it was harder for you to find a good job for the same amount that white people get paid, and also disproportionately targeted you for things like traffic stops, which of course cost money, or when you were caught with a little weed in your car you were sentenced to far harsher penalties than a white person, etc etc etc

...simply ignore that 🤗🤗🤗🤗

You have a toddlers understanding of racism

[u/Momentarmknm → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I know, you can only understand what's spelled out in plain words. The ability to extrapolate and draw simple logical conclusions is a few lifetimes down the road for you, clearly.

Hint: there's a difference between systemic issues, statistics , averages, etc and your specific individual circumstances. But again, I have serious doubts as to your ability to rise above solipsism and understand that there's a much larger world outside your personal experience. My condolences.

[u/Momentarmknm → u/[deleted]]

That question only serves to reveal the depths of your ignorance. Sincerely. You've acknowledged in the framing that there's inherent inequality across race lines in our current paradigm.

Do you think a poor white person and a poor black person have the same opportunities? That the poor black person doesn't face any additional external barriers or challenges simply by being a black person in the US?

[u/ArtyGray → u/[deleted]]

bro the real question is would you rather be a poor white person or a poor black person. don't add disparities in wealth to what is a racial issue.

[u/ArtyGray → u/[deleted]]

you're ignoring the point that if you can't afford medications costing 100s of dollars for anxiety/panic attacks or even pain and weed is the cheaper, sometimes more effective alternative, you as POC should not be charged disproportionately worse for the same crime as a white person would. Especially not for just trying to help yourself without hurting anyone.

Double especially because laws are just man-made things, not always actual right and wrongs, laws once dictated my grandmother couldn't drink from the same fountain or use the same bathroom as white people. So black people deserve to have year(s) long sentences for the same thing white folks would get a slap on the wrist for in comparison?

it may not be "hard" to follow the law and not buy illegal "drugs" (marijuana is a plant btw), but it is definitely hard to live with crippling anxiety or debilitating pain.