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Originally Posted by Levar Burton
Please don't tell us what we realize or what we know or don't know. Don't tell us what we're ignorant to in our own community. Myself and many others perceive THAT as a false sense of enlightenment and downright arrogance.Originally Posted by HAM CITY
I didn't say I wanted you to do anything but since you asked, I'll answer. What I don't what you as a white person to do is this.Originally Posted by Levar Burton
What is it that you want me to do (as a white person)? What can I do really? False sense of enlightenment? Where? It's simply a matter of perspective
Blacks don't realize no one can do anything about your problems butyour community
Isn't that what you're doing to me? You're in a thread that encourages perspectives to expose maybe some flaws in thinking, and you're getting angry because I'm admitting I'm oblivious to the problems of blacks. I'm only sharing what's discussed among my circle of friends and in my experiences (which is very diverse btw). You're like wielding a knife at me and asking for a hug at the same time
I don't know how else to say this without making you upset, the world is bigger than African-American issues. Not saying they aren't any less important, but are you well educated in the effects and psyche of the Japanese post Hiroshima? Nagasaki? Maybe the Holocaust? The oppression my Great-Grandfather experienced as an Irish Immigrant in New York?
One can say that you're putting YOUR feelings as a black man in front of Asians and Jewish people as if your struggle is far greater. Imagine being Muslim in New York. They're doing something about their issues because it's their issues and their struggle.
I've always observed there's a "you don't know what its like being black" attitude when ever race comes up, imagine being in my shoes in this very thread looking to offer some perspective and you're rejecting me cause you're not taking the time to understand me as a person.
idk, you are trying to downplay the struggles of the black man in life vs asians and jews, its already hard to measure social struggles conclusively but blacks are second-rate citizens, since you're handling perspectives, i can give more profound examples of black social struggles but your gf is personal to you and you like her very much, would your current gf be with you if you were Jew? Asian? Hispanic? Black?