The So-Called Uptick In Hate Is Fundamentally American

[sheshe2]

The killing of Richard W. Collins III. A noose cryptically left in an exhibit at the National Museum of African American History. “N***er” spray-painted in big black letters on the home of one of the country’s greatest black athletes. Two Portland residents stabbed to death by a white supremacist, after coming to the defense of Muslim and black girls being bombarded by slurs.
This is America. 

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But the truth is, we shouldn’t be shocked at all. Not by a single one of these hateful events, and not by a single one of the many surely to come. It’s a sad, but unfortunate reality: racism perpetuates physical, spiritual and emotional violence. That violence is not surprising, it is an inevitability of a racist society. 

Now, eight months later, it’s become impossible to ignore. The topic of hate seems to be “trending” right now ― but, in reality, it always was. 
As writer Jamilah Lemieux put it succinctly on Thursday: 

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These incidents aren’t isolated; they’re symptomatic of our country’s long history of white supremacy... We can’t ignore our country’s past, and we can’t allow ourselves to believe that this kind of violence is inevitable.”


To be truly surprised than any of these incidents have occurred in America is to ignore the fact that these events (the ones that make the news) do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they lie on a horrifying historical continuum ― a legacy of racism and hatred that has ebbed and flowed for as long as America has existed. 

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-so-called-uptick-in-hate-is-fundamentally-american_us_59318b5ce4b0c242ca237c29?section=us_black-voices

So instead of thread after fugging thread about the n-word. Can we please all sit down and talk about the legacy of racism and hatred and what the hell we are going to do about it? Come on people, it is 2017, past time we grew up and had an adult conversation. This isn't a black problem, it is a white problem.

[brer cat]

1. It is a white problem, sheshe.

It is our history from day one and continues today. We are very good at denial, at painting pretty faces on the darkest periods of our past. What we aren't at is looking inward: facing racism and bigotry honestly means accepting that it exists in all of us white people, and that we have derived vast privilege from it. The discomfort that causes makes us defensive, evasive, and even downright belligerent in our struggle to avoid looking in that mirror. Look at the people demanding that those who spoke out against Maher apologize. That is not having an adult conversation; that is avoiding the very essence of racism and the hurt and discrimination it brings.

If we learned nothing else during 2016, it is that the "isms" are very entrenched in America.

[sheshe2]

3. "If we learned nothing else during 2016, it is that the "isms" are very entrenched in America."

Yes. Sadly they are, it exists no matter how many say it does not, or that they are not prejudice.

White people own racism. It is up to us to change the course. It should be a simple thing to do, deep reflection...a mirror that one honestly looks into. Will it happen? Not soon enough, yet the world is changing and the fear is evident. Time to sit back and embrace the change...trust me it will be beautiful if we come together. Yet it is going to take a lot of hard work to get there.

[CousinIT]

2. Sexism and racism perpetuates physical, spiritual and emotional violence...

...while no one is hanging nooses ro intimidate women, oppression and abuse of women as something less than human is as much a problem. The 2016 election was the absolute epitome of overt racism and sexism wherein a minority of racists and sexists - ignorant, fear and hate-driven conservatives carried out a vicious campaign of backlash against our first black president and a potential female one.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. LONG past time,ss2!!!