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Selling Water While Black... and 8 Years Old
- Thread starter excelsiorlef
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I know they're mocking her with the nickname, but cases like this i wish her real name was a bit more centerfold.
It really wouldn't have surprised me if the "kicker" to this story was that an 8 year old was ultimately gunned down. There has been enough stories about black teenagers being killed that this - as a non american - wouldn't really register as outlandish, in the context of stories flowing from contemporary US.
LGBTQ+ has been pretty successful in giving a voice to the complexity of its particular issues, and I wish some of that success could be be transferable onto other minorities.
Obviously, LGBTQ+ has the "advantage" of being evenly distributed; LGBTQ+ can manifest in any family, whereas "various (non-white) racial traits" can be controlled for through both individual inclination (who you chose to date), and through the complex web of socio-economic fabric, that - unfortunately - tends to keep white and non-white people from socializing.
I don't know if I have any particular point that hasn't already been voiced by people who are more equipped to speak eloquently - and more precisely - about this particular topic.
It's such a bummer that we - as a global society - continue to not give non-white people the same amount of grace and projected beauty that we give LGBTQ+.
LGBTQ+ has been pretty successful in giving a voice to the complexity of its particular issues, and I wish some of that success could be be transferable onto other minorities.
Obviously, LGBTQ+ has the "advantage" of being evenly distributed; LGBTQ+ can manifest in any family, whereas "various (non-white) racial traits" can be controlled for through both individual inclination (who you chose to date), and through the complex web of socio-economic fabric, that - unfortunately - tends to keep white and non-white people from socializing.
I don't know if I have any particular point that hasn't already been voiced by people who are more equipped to speak eloquently - and more precisely - about this particular topic.
It's such a bummer that we - as a global society - continue to not give non-white people the same amount of grace and projected beauty that we give LGBTQ+.
Once again.....going to be that guy...will actually Dave Chappelle was that guy when he said that LGBTQ issues are making more strides than race issues because, well, white people are included in LGBTQ demographic specifically white men so that puts it at the top of the "Priority List" *shrug*
I don't care what Dave Chapelle says or thinks about any particular topic. I don't think you're genuinely engaging with what I said.
I never argue from any kind of ill-will when I post, and it's important to me that you understand that. Every single post I make is open-hearted and earnest.
My point was that, because LGBTQ+ can happen in any family, the tolerance for LGBTQ+ is significantly more advanced than black, asian, or otherwise non-white integration.
We wouldn't talk about race the way we currently do, if non-whiteness was as evenly distributed as LGBTQ+.
If two white people could spontaneously give birth to a baby with near charcoal-dark skin, we would probably talk about race in the same way we talk about LGBTQ+, and enjoy the same kind of progressive development moving forward.
Instead, we're here, at this seemingly never-ending standstill, that both unnecessarily riles up white people into a psychotic state of imagined racial anxiety, while also giving very little avenues for actual success to anyone who had the misfortune of not being randomly born into a white, affluent family.
Hopefully I've made some kind of coherent point in my posting. The topic itself is making me depressed, and I'll be taking a break (tonight, mostly because I'm drunk, and have my own complexity to untangle) from further replying to this thread.
Cheers, Love.
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I don't care about "scoring points" when I post. Either engage with me earnestly, or don't. All my posts are - perhaps embarrassingly - earnest in nature, to the point that my current posting-behavior would probably have made 25-year-old-me rosy cheeked, and embarrassed.
Cheers, and have a wonderful friday. Love.
Mowing Lawns While Black... and 12 Years Old
http://www.wsmv.com/story/38540633/neighbor-calls-police-on-12-year-old-boy-mowing-lawn
1 ft over...