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He should have focused on the fact that racism is a human problem and not a white one. That everybody is capable of it and that it's wrong in all forms. He should have focused on the incredible progress we have made, going from Jim crow to a black president in a couple generations.
While racism is a human problem, let's be serious... it's not harming whites in society. It's harming the black community.
Fact is, black people born in the last 20 years know nothing about true racism. Their ancestors suffered and toiled to get to this point and instead of capitalizing on it they are squandering it by blaming others for their problems.
Young blacks certainly experience true racism and pretending like they don't is silly. While it's certainly better than older generations, there's definitely true racism around. I live in a major city with a large black population, and as a white guy I hear the most racist shit come out of white people's mouths all the time.
The fact is, more blacks are in college than ever before. So acting like they are squandering anything to pretend like they are just victims is blatantly false. The majority of the real black community is moving forward every day, but they are still being held back by racism. Want an example? My black fiancee is a great lawyer. She can't even wear her hair natural because it's too "ethnic". She has to straighten it up to make it look more white. And in my experience, black sounding names often get tossed out of resume stacks. Things like that still happen all the time and it's not just because they are pretending to be victims.
When politicians, liberals, pundits talk about racism today what they are actually talking about is RESULTS.
That's just a really dumb thing to say. Pretending like thousands of different people over years are all talking about "RESULTS" is crazy. People talk about different things because they all have different opinions.
Blacks are more likely to be in poverty, in prison, single family homes, do shitty in school, etc etc etc. These stats are constantly pointed to as proof of racism when really the why is the question. That's the question nobody wants to discuss honestly.
The question why? People know why. They got treated like shit and couldn't get an education or share white services until the 70s. All the while, they were economically limited by a lack of job availability and housing limitations. Couldn't get a job because nobody wanted to hire blacks and they couldn't move to a nice area because nobody wanted blacks in their nice white neighborhoods. Then the drug war systematically targeted black male youths and the men who would be those fathers and income providers, sending them to jail at record rates for long periods of time.
The black community is recovering from a few hundred years of being treated like straight dog shit by Americans, and people really want to pretend like all of that shouldn't have lasting consequences or that we don't know why. We know why. We just don't want to admit why.
If the black community had migrated to America and been afforded the same opportunities as everyone else who was white did, do you really think they'd have the same problems they have today? I don't think they would.
I find it absolutely ridiculous to pretend like President Obama was bad for race relations or that he tried to stir up problems. If anyone did that it's President Trump. Trump is the one calling every brown person under the sun a rapist, criminal, or terrorist.