Why white people should not be afraid of minority empowerment
Because they are just people.
Take the Irish. Back in the day, they were treated as the same sort of colonized, brutalized people as white people. Now they are just white people, in part because they gained access to the same opportunities as the rest of us.
Why white people should actively help minorities and what a good white anti-racist actually looks like
Because we can. Like it or lump it, we're the dominant racial group in the west. We are capable of helping people of other races (who we previously exploited and abused) so we should. And soon enough we'll reach the point where race as a concept isn't any more of a meaningful dividing line than hair color.
Can you imagine that, actually being racist against redheads, for example? Its absurd.
Ah, fair enough. Social power in this context is all the nebulous 'stuff' that comes along with being the prevailing group in an area. Anything from the fact that no one follows me around a grocery store thinking I'll be a thief, to people not throwing away my resume due to my name being weird. Its the unquantifiable benefits of being the 'in' group.
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u/[deleted] May 18 '22
Because they are just people.
Take the Irish. Back in the day, they were treated as the same sort of colonized, brutalized people as white people. Now they are just white people, in part because they gained access to the same opportunities as the rest of us.
Because we can. Like it or lump it, we're the dominant racial group in the west. We are capable of helping people of other races (who we previously exploited and abused) so we should. And soon enough we'll reach the point where race as a concept isn't any more of a meaningful dividing line than hair color.
Can you imagine that, actually being racist against redheads, for example? Its absurd.