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I think it's important to remember just exactly WHY it is that racism against and racially-insensitive remarks about black people are inherently more charged and controversial. There's a lot of denial about the reality that is behind this phenomena. And I think it's kind of shameful.
Here's what I have to say about that:
Fucking live with it!
White people in America have never had to live in a world where they were treated as second-class. Black people have. My parents remember it. Al Sharpton remembers it. It was not so long ago. That's a key difference. Is it really that hard to understand? The sensitivity is there because of our very real and painful recent past. It's just not funny for a white person to denigrate a black person because our common consciousness remembers what it was like when racism was common and acceptable. Just get over yourselves with your "reverse racism" bullshit. It IS NOT reverse racism. It's jokes and bullshit talk. Just thank your lucky stars that you were never really on the shit end of that deal and live with it, okay? Okay. Thank you.
/end rant and threadjack.
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