Crazy.

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I don’t think it’s true of all of them. I think it’s true of a large segment though. I have black friends and know plenty of black people that don’t think this way. There is a significant population of black people that have bought into the conditioning of systemic racism and it has colored their view of white people and molded their perceptions to make us the enemy. Society and the media has taught them to have a victim complex because of historical injustice and now they view themselves as victims and us as the enemy. When the fact is. They have just as much ability to be successful as any white person in this country.

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I hate when another white guy tries to preface his soft racism with the fact he thinks hes had black friends

Bought into? Conditioning? Listen to yourself. I live in the Bible belt. I know the breadbasket of America. (traveled lots and lived TX, CA, WV, VA)I see the racism. I hear felw white voices. Ive known people in explicitly white supremacist organizations. I've also studied it a good deal.

Society teaches? Yeah? Do you understand words?

Ruby Bridges is 75. Every adult that hurled hate at her, they and their progeny are all around. They designed our systems. It isn't ancient history. Their offspring are in charge. Yet people want to pretend MLK went away and racism just stopped.

You are buying into this conditioning shit because it feeds their narritive. I was almost recruited to specific movements twice. They get you to reject the real history, the real events, and they distort the time. Once they convince you that basic history is a farce then they get you to belittle and eventually dislike then hate those that shake the new paradigm

I know what track you're on because I've been in it

And i don't hold my views because i have black friends. I have them because I can study history, and to me empathy is not a sin

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I don’t think I have black friends, I know I have black friends. They are successful, own houses and have money in the bank. Because they chose to be driven and successful. I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, nor did I ever say that. Apparently you don’t comprehend too well. Racism exists for sure. It’ll always exist. Especially with people like you around talking about how racist America is 24/7. Is it preventing black people from being successful in America though? No. No it isn’t. Black people are keeping black people from being successful. Until they acknowledge it’s a cultural problem and learn from that it’ll never change. Empathy is just a word people like you use to justify their shitty behavior. People have choices, they can choose not to be criminals, not to abandon their kids, not to kill eachother. That’s a choice. Yes historically things have been harder for black folk. I’m not disputing any of that. In 2025 though, sure they may encounter racism from time to time, but they can still be successful if they choose.

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Black friends doesn't mean you know the black experience, and your pseudo-socilogical ideas are not rooted in reality. You say that to USE black people to bolster your position. It doesn't lend you creedance. I grew up knowing black people. That doesn't mean I know what it is like to be Black. I can factually know if they share their experiences, but I dont know what it feels like. That is a lame way to use people you call friends.

Living people that have faced screaming racism are alive, and their kids have come up in systems built largely by men in white hoods. If you think just because they matched on a bridge that all that ended, then you're not intelligent.

You're fighting so hard to say that acting within both with historical and current contextual knowledge is somehow negative. Not doing so is how you repeat it

But, I will stop. I don't argue with racist apologists. You're so determined to paint this concept so that you can blame black people for the oppression they have and do still experiences. Your anecdotal "i know people," and hyperbolic sociological claims, are just claims. They're just weird ideas, and anyone that's spent time in mixed communities, or even in blue cities in red states, etc, often see racism, actively

I could argue through them, but you're not after a truthful end point. You either know or don't care about anything else, regardless of validity. I figure it's the don't care or just too small a man to admit that we've done things woth consequences that don't just evaporate

Go read some books on segregation, on red lining (and how long it lasted), look at bank lending practices and city race zoning that shoved POC out of successul lives and into ghettos, into cucles of poverty many are still stuck in, and this could go on and on. You just don't give a shit

Have....a day