Do Bbc Lovers Have Black Friends?

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Responding to the OP--

Yours really is the central question of the United States' culture and other supposedly "post"-colonial cultures related to the incredibly racist 19th-century formulation called "race": Do melanin-impaired individuals, who have been given tremendous cultural power over the centuries since European colonization of most of the planet, perceive people with more melanin as "people" or "not people"? (As "us" or as "them"?)

From my perspective, all too many don't see all people as "us," and it's hurting all of us.

Until that happens--until "white" people as a group see "black" and "brown" people as a group as much-loved close friends and family members--we'll continue to see the lack of U.S. and state governmental care for "black" and "brown" people that happened before, during, and after hurricanes Katrina and Maria (for example); the highly visible inequity in numbers of fatal police shootings of unarmed "black" and "brown" people in the USA as opposed to those of unarmed "white" people; the staggering inequity in terms of opportunities for education, career development, and wealth building for "black" and "brown" people as opposed to those for "white" people; and on and on and on, literally ad nauseam.

And until that happens, we'll continue to fail to include everyone who should be included in the definition of "United States citizen."

Which holds us all back, financially, legally, and morally.

NCbear (who--speaking of ad nauseam--is reminded of Scout's visceral reaction to racism in To Kill a Mockingbird: she feels sick to her stomach and wants to cry when she thinks about the hypocritical, mean-spirited, and just plain rude and nasty behavior that the frightened, foolish "white" racists show the "black" descendants of former slaves in her small Alabama hometown during the 1930s)
 
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