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Originally Posted by tecoyah
Mod Note......Racism is unacceptable in the community...but this is not meant to be such....in my opinion.
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That coloured text really freaks a guy out.
Anyway, to explain where I find merit in what he's saying, it's on some of the basics he's talking about. When he says that white people have "expanded the plantation" internationally, he's using a bad metaphor, and he's misinterpreting intentions, but there is some truth to that. White is the dominant colour of skin on the planet at the moment, and it's primarily a vestige of colonialism. However, his crazy tangents and idea that we (white people) want to kill black people completely destroy any credibility he may have had.
I personally prefer to consider skin colour only as a physical identifier (eg. "he had a big nose, black hair, and brown skin") rather than using it to segregate the population into different ethnic groups. Sadly, until we find a way to get rid of most of the unintentional or indirect institutional racism at least in our own countries, that outlook is not possible for the greater society.
edit: Temporary: that's the only part of his speech that I had access to.