Dear white racists and your fragile fee-fees:
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****************This is Posted in the African-American Group************This was in the comments section at KOS and in my opinion a very good read. I think it's past time that we become a United States of America. We need to take the racists out of our police departments as well as our courts. We need to educate ourselves, to do this we need to stop and listen very carefully. We have the power to change.
Comment was to this OP.
MON SEP 29, 2014 AT 08:34 AM PDT
Dear White Folks, Please Stop Being So 'Surprised' When White Cops Shoot Unarmed Black People
Several weeks ago, Levar Jones, a black motorist, was shot by a white South Carolina state trooper named Sean M. Groubert while complying with the latter's request that he present his drivers license for inspection. This unwarranted and unnecessary use of violence by Groubert was recorded on video. He was fired from The South Carolina State Police and subsequently arrested.
In the United States, the black body is so imperiled and used to being the object of white racial terrorism and violence that Levar Jones, an innocent man, apologized to Sean Groubert after being shot.
If there was not a dashboard camera, Groubert would have concocted one of the typical lies told by police officers--the "criminal" was reaching for a gun; he lunged at me in a "threatening" manner"; it was a "clean" shot because I was in "reasonable fear" of my safety--and been given a commendation and left free to walk the streets where he (or she) would continue to harass and murder other innocent members of the public.
The news media has responded to the video recording of Sean Groubert shooting Levar Jones with surprise. Headlines read that the recording is "shocking" or "unbelievable". The largely white commentariat on TV and elsewhere seem genuinely dismayed at Groubert's actions.
Read More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/29/1333114/-Dear-White-Folks-Please-Stop-Being-So-Surprised-When-White-Cops-Shoot-Unarmed-Black-People
Dear white racists and your fragile fee-fees:
by eodell on Tue Sep 30, 2014 at 08:23:19 AM PDT
Read More: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1333114/54616395#c494
Relax, I'm white, too. Look, I can do the secret handshake and nudge-nudge, wink-wink. Lemme whitesplain something to you, fellow white men: no one buys your bullshit.
That's because your bullshit runs like this: For historically- and presently-oppressed black people to be treated decently, they must carefully avoid doing anything that could be remotely twisted into behaving like a white racist, even if you're squinting and looking at it from five hundred meters away in a thick fog. Because that would be racist, and therefore hypocritical, and if that's the case, they deserve to continue to be oppressed.
Here's the thing you thick-headed assholes totally fail to get: NO ONE DESERVES TO BE OPPRESSED, PERIOD. You can talk all you want about how it's okay for black people to be mistreated if--- but get this, there is no "if". It's not okay, ever. That's why we call it mistreatment. Your error is to think that it's ever justified, and your active misdeed is to constantly search for a justification. Black people, collectively, are not guilty of anything. In fact, a basic principle of civil society is that we reject the notion of collective guilt. Some individual black people, like individual white people, have done bad things, and in those cases, may deserve judicial punishments. But even those people don't deserve mistreatment from some random white guy on the street. And black people in general don't owe anyone anything as a prerequisite for being treated decently. No one does.
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And here's the subtle point that you folks either can't or won't grasp. White privilege is especially the responsibility of white people to fix, not because we're all racist schlubs like you are, but because white privilege itself means that we're the ones who have the power to change it. Black people don't have that power, again because of white privilege, and not because they aren't sufficiently careful in the way they phrase their complaints about being mistreated. It's our problem and our responsibility as white people to fix not because whites are collectively guilty, but because it is the responsibility of ALL PEOPLE to fight for decent treatment for ALL PEOPLE. It just happens that, because of our shithead ancestors and a helping handful of historical accident, we white people are the ones who can do something about it. When the finger on the trigger is white, it's pointless to ask a black guy to lower the gun.
Found Here: http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2014/10/dear-white-racists-buried-among-750.html
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At the top of your post - I would c/p the notification about where this is posted! This is a real rip doozy as my Gramfeathers used to say! And I loooooove it! 
And that guy at Kos is right - white people can change it. We - the minorities can't change the internal lives of those white Americans who refuse to see themselves as they are.
Now I really did get it....now it's done
However I liked my other OP add as well~ 
But he was trying to survive. 
That comment was Perfect. The language of some sounds familiar. It's why kitty makes that face but says nothing.
treatise teaches and changes just one racist person, it is a small victory in the ongoing quest to find the humanity in an hateful, bigoted sector of american people.
It just seems, seems mind you, that racism and bigotry has made an overt comeback the like I haven't really seen since being a kid in Georgia in the 50's-60's. I truly fear for the unity of these UNITED STATES. Will decent people be able to weather the onslaught of tea party racists and bigots, rw republicans from all states poisoning the halls of power, both state and national, with their racism, bigotry, hate. Corporate fascist power affecting all people, neo-nazis in america, resurgent klan, some libertarians, your run of the mill zimpig and wilson racist, HATE limbegger type radio and internet site(s), Fux 'news' punditry and other MSM manipulation by the KOKO bros?
This ongoing war has been in full swing since MLK, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, George Jackson, Angela Davis, I fought for her release and all mentioned were necessary at the time and now also. It time for a new generation of activists like we had to stand up and say, NO YOU WON"T!!!!! .There were small victory's' in civil rights and voting laws that have since been overturned by our 'supreme' court and many, many states.......I am very uneasy and somewhat ready to be paranoid about the people in this hateful culture'. This is not a comfortable nation to live in, especially while driving or just walking down the streets.
Until an article such as in this OP is accepted by the white racist and they change... 
LOL, or they are able to be extremely marginalized, this nation's peoples are at war with each other with no end in sight.....I expect it to escalate and get worse for all of us....it ain't over yet.
It should be its own post. 
and yes your analogy is as people say here, spot on. Thank for further clarity.
a separate thread just on this point. Amazing! 
Thank you so very much!! 
yet to my way of thinking the people who practice inaction are never going to be a help, they're too comfortable in their white privilege. The 'convert' might just be like that "I found Jesus moment" person. Full tilt boogy in 'seeing the light'. Maybe? Yet I do also agree with your assessment. If it happens it can be of immense help also in a war that's been going on for far too long in this country.