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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA frank discussion of being Black/African American in the USA in the year 2016.
from a white 65 year old woman. got nothing. I'm white, so can't say a thing about it. You???
bravenak
(34,648 posts)One would presumably need to experience being black to discuss being black unless one had educated themselves through various means on the black experience.
a kennedy
(29,740 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)If you want to know something about living black, just ask.
a kennedy
(29,740 posts)what happened to their voice??
bravenak
(34,648 posts)With the rise of Nixon, the split with the EJW, the attacks by the state, the surveilance, and the changes in the seventies, by the eighties the ones I saw growing up we trying to protect the neighborhood from crack dealers and street gangs. It is my opinion this was the goal of the republican party and parts of the democratic party.
But really, there is so much more to it than can be summed up in one post, but there are many books written by members to read and discover what happened.
a kennedy
(29,740 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)a kennedy
(29,740 posts)I've been watching the O J Simpson story again and now all these years later this country, to me doesn't seem to have changed a bit in it's relations with minorities. May-be not so overt, but still terribly racist. Guess it doesn't make sense for me a 65 year old white woman to even ask.