• Woht24@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Why do they have to be black? America is bizarrely obsessed with race, I’ve never seen anything like it both in person and on the internet.

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        22 minutes ago

        Exactly, tell the Germans how they should support their local businesses run by the Turkish people so that they can start making their economy and society more inclusive which benefits everybody, and see how the Germans will laugh you out of the door.

        At least in certain countries like the America people can talk about trying to help racial minorities without getting ridiculed.

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      4 hours ago

      Sure, it can seem on the surface like wanting to support people of a particular race is in itself a kind of racism, or at least a situation that emphasizes unfair distinctions.

      Unfortunately, race does still matter in America, even if we personally disagree with it or want to ignore it. The health and economic research data make it very clear that people of color in America, especially black people, experience harder lives in almost every category. This is due to both recurring experiences of present-day prejudice and discrimination, as well the inter-generational impacts of wealth inequality and psychological trauma.

      You might already know about this, but redlining is one example of the way that patterns of discrimination can creates a systemic effect, which, in turn, can impact the physical and financial effects on a family across time. These kinds of systemic effects can then make it harder for current generations of these families to recover and live safe lives today though, we personally might celebrate that the policy doesn’t exist anymore, and even though we personally might say that we don’t support people acting like that anymore.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

      No one really has to do anything, but some people might choose to support groups of people or organizations who they think might have experienced similar kinds of hardships in their families, and might be glad to have a way to try to do something different with their money than give it to another multinational corporation every time.

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        3 hours ago

        Right but as far as I understand it the supermarkets and wholesalers screw all farmers over equally race isn’t a consideration.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah I’ve heard these arguments. I still hold my opinion. America needs to move away from the race obsession.

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              17 minutes ago

              As in

              • Not talking about race will solve the lingering systemic race issues, or
              • There are no lingering systemic race issues, so we should stop talking about it?