Grace wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 7:04 am We have several beautiful adopted non-white children and young adults in our extended family. When it comes to them, no racism.
But when I look at the prominent newspaper here in Lancaster County and almost every day, there are major crimes reported with the perp being either black or Hispanic,
I have negative feelings about them.
Having negative feelings about crimes isn’t racist.
Unless you distort those feelings to be used against (a group) in entirety .. which seems unlikely, given your second sentence above.
We can be sure, law-abiding POC have negative feelings about crime, too. They are most often the direct targets.
i chose 5. i’m human, imperfect; my guess is, most people, all descriptions, would fit 5.
i sometimes have to fight being prejudiced against white folks. imho, this is a growing problem across the board in the U.S.
i would not say this is by accident.
i’m not sure there are any families left who aren’t mixed race, including by legal marriage, as well as never-marrieds procreating without marriage, often with multiple partners. (unlike current president biden, i count children born out of wedlock to be family members.) Thinking in terms of extended time, the world may eventually become a homogenous shade of beige .. ??
i have one family member with 5 boys, i believe 5 fathers, one white. the white child is deceased. i’m pretty sure there are more with similar families .. i’m not in close contact with a lot of my living family. over years, many moved away, connections lost.
When i was very young ..
i used to wonder why God created different skin colors? .. when it leads to so many problems?
eventually, i concluded, no matter.
thing is,
the human compulsion for conflict is so strong, if it weren’t for skin color, it would be about something else.
so many brutal conflicts in world history (and presently) have been between people who look just like each other.
on-every-continent.
Sadly, in the U.S., racism/reverse racism has been institutionalized by racists who profit from not allowing it (a certain definition) to fade, under any circumstances. IT’S BIG BUSINESS. Protected, promoted, rewarded, funded by government, everyone’s tax dollars. It’s an idol.
No one blinks an eye at privileged, wealthy “victims” openly mourning their victimhood. It’s expected. It’s encouraged.
When it comes to big profits, nothing needs to be true or make sense. Whatever it takes for power+profit.
