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In reply to the discussion: Very revealing post from another board I frequent. [View all]noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)43. the insidiousness of racism, and its acceptance
is a huge part of the problem. one of the news magazines did a sting of sorts recently. they used actors to portray a store owner and a customer. the man who was the store owner refused to serve the customer, a woman wearing a hijab. he called her a terrorist and said she was not american. 6 or so of the customers agreed with him, and several disagreed with him and supported the woman. one man in particular was very passionate in his support of the woman, and he said his son fought in iraq.
however, the vast majority of people didn't do or say anything...they were good germans. they were silent because of shame, apathy,l embarrassment, agreement: whatever. the point is: they did nothing. this is how isms fester: good people do nothing.
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how do you know the woman in the left photo is white? She looks a lot like one of my closest
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#13
Sorry, but that photo gets used with the assumption both people are white. You can make a secondary
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#54
The same guy talked about standing on a roof of a high rise with helicopter flying over
loyalsister
Jul 2013
#57
If you want a good laugh, check the archives and see what some DUers were saying then...
Blue_Tires
Jul 2013
#49
Perhaps in the years since the author has come to understand how the judge could ask that,
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#7
I realized that after I posted it. But yeah. Although the one that I think persuaded most of
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#15
I had the same reaction while watching Levar Burton on CNN talk about 'when [he] get's pulled over'
apnu
Jul 2013
#22
In his speech yesterday at the NAACP convention, Holder mentions it happening to him
MoonRiver
Jul 2013
#35