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People With Privilege Choose Every Day: Dismantle Racial Bias, or Participate in It
Time ^ | June 23, 2020 | Agnes Gund

Posted on 06/23/2020 5:25:12 AM PDT by C19fan

I remember African Americans in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, protesting the violent racism they endured when I was a young woman in the 1960s. I remember thinking that it had nothing to do with me. I have learned since that everyone, but, particularly white people, must address our insidious negative beliefs about Black people that cause us to tolerate the reality that Black people are disproportionately harmed by policing and the legal system.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: blm; race
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To: mulligan

If a black cant make it now with ALL the programs, scholarships hiring quotas then they are complete LOSERS.


21 posted on 06/23/2020 6:06:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: C19fan

I’ll take option 2.


22 posted on 06/23/2020 6:14:37 AM PDT by yardboyd (Call me a rose.... or leave me alone.)
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To: C19fan

“I remember thinking that it had nothing to do with me. I have learned since that everyone, but, particularly white people, must address our insidious negative beliefs”

So, she recognizes her own racism, and then makes the racist assumption that all people with her skin color have the same “insidious negative beliefs” that she does. She was and continues to be a racist. Nice try.


23 posted on 06/23/2020 6:15:07 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: C19fan

Racism? Not everybody is going to like you. People have the right to like and dislike whomever they want for whatever reason they want. Get over yourself and get on with life.


24 posted on 06/23/2020 6:15:14 AM PDT by all the best (You)
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To: C19fan

FU, Agnes!


25 posted on 06/23/2020 6:16:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan
insidious negative beliefs about Black people

You mean statistics?

26 posted on 06/23/2020 6:39:20 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: C19fan

I have white, polite, middle-aged, sober woman privilege when the police pull me over.

They don’t expect trouble or danger from me. Am I supposed to act up to prove that women are as dangerous as men, that middle aged people are as wild as young?

I can do nothing to build up other people’s privilege, to change the expectations brought out by differing behavior patterns of different groups.

I could surely do my small part to dismantle white, middle-aged woman privilege by acting badly. Develop a local reputation, perhaps recruit friends to do the same.

Is that what they mean by dismantling privilege?


27 posted on 06/23/2020 6:44:41 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Take the writer to Chiraq. Without security. Her worldview will quickly change.


28 posted on 06/23/2020 6:50:39 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Altura Ct.

It has been a one way street for at least 40 years now.


29 posted on 06/23/2020 6:51:39 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: rightwingcrazy

Yeah,those 20 million dead black babies in abortion killed themselves...No white liberals or blacks helped that process along.... This is the only time in history that racists have been able to get blacks to help slaughter their own people...


30 posted on 06/23/2020 6:59:56 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: ClearCase_guy

There’s two types of people in the world right now:

Those who form their opinions based on reality.
Those who form reality based on their opinions.


31 posted on 06/23/2020 7:00:00 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Dr.Deth

There’s two types of people in the world right now:
Those who form their opinions based on reality.
Those who form reality based on their opinions.


Or to quote an ancient source, “everyone did what was right in their own mind.”


32 posted on 06/23/2020 7:06:20 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: C19fan

“...everyone, but, particularly white people, must address our insidious negative beliefs about Black people...”

I’m waiting for her lengthy diatribe about Jewish Privilege next.


33 posted on 06/23/2020 7:18:55 AM PDT by euram
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To: heartwood

I share your same privilege but not too long ago, privilege was called stereotype. And you are correct - it’s up to black people to change the negative stereotypes surrounding them. And they know it.

White privilege is being used to take the focus off of black dysfunction and their own complicity in it. If black people started to take responsibility for their own mess, the whole racial grievance machine would come to a screeching halt. And the democrats would never win another election.


34 posted on 06/23/2020 7:25:01 AM PDT by GrannyAnn
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To: C19fan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk

This attitude reminds me of the above video - Trump should broadcast it once a week


35 posted on 06/23/2020 7:27:39 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan

“Black people are disproportionately harmed by policing and the legal system.”

BECAUSE THEY COMMIT MORE CRIMES!

HARMED? George Floyd KILLED HIMSELF! (by his lifelong criminal actions and behaviors)

Black people “harm” THEMSELVES by smokin weed, selling drugs, possessing stolen or unregistered firearms, fathering children with multiple “baby mamas” and abandoning them, chillin’ instead of workin’, demanding “respect” when there is nothing in their lives worthy of respect.

Of course not ALL Blacks, but guess who is painting you with THAT brush? OTHER BLACKS who do those things.

It is about time the rest of you “good people” STAND UP against these LOSERS, for your own RESPECT.


36 posted on 06/23/2020 7:39:49 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: C19fan

I’ve grown up in NH. My silence is due to the fact that we do not have a race problem up here because we really don’t have black people up here. I can’t speak for or feel guilt about what happens outside my territory, nor will I. They probably don’t want to hear what the white boy from NH has for a solution, nor should they. They know their problems, it’s up to them and their handlers to figure out the solution. I feel for the blacks being stuck where they are, the inner city is really just a glorified refugee camp. It’s a shame they have sat on the sidelines for decades. I am afraid it might be too late.


37 posted on 06/23/2020 7:44:23 AM PDT by dgbrown
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Time - Spreading the Lies.

BOYCOTT.

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38 posted on 06/23/2020 2:59:41 PM PDT by elbook
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