On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 11:57 AM, Steve Sundur wrote:
I think the onus of white guilt that you carry around with you causes you to think that we must pour money into all the areas you cited previously. But simply throwing money at problems usually doesn't work, and especially when it involves just giving money away to people.
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As usual the problem of working our way out of "structural racism" is complicated and will require work and education and hard choices. Slogans don't do much.
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I have looked at different approaches to "solving" racism, some of which suggest it is a problem that won't go away for another 150 years until the population becomes more mixed?
Are you saying I carry "white guilt" around because I am stating that "structural racism" exists?? Because I am aware of the privileges I inherited and benefited from by virtue of the advantages granted by our ancestral colonizers? Those who who slaughtered majority populations of indigenous peoples in the name of civilization and relocated the remaining to reservations? Those who profited and built this country on the backs of slaves?? I'm about personal responsibility Steve, just like you.? I personally believe reparations are owed by this nation.? ???
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Emily Mae