Thread: Black Lives Matter
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Old 16-06-2020, 14:10   #478
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Re: Black Lives Matter
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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
It isn't about feeling personal shame but rather a recognition it happened. The main argument activists have isn't that white people should feel guilty but to have a greater understanding that it happened, that is was really bad and that consequences of racism linger.

Even over this statue debate there is a lot of 'he did some good things, he did some bad things' but that seems to underplay just how bad those things where. It does still seem like we're resistant to properly confront that part of British history, handwaving it away.
Are you honestly saying that people didn't know there was slavery all those years ago? I certainly did, and I dare say you did, too. It is no secret, it is in the past, and it has not directly affected any living person.

The big thing now that we should be concentrating on is ironing out the inequalities, which 50 years on from the Race Discrimination Act, still persist today.

The concentration on slavery and choice of words people use are little more than devices to change the subject. There is no excuse for treating black people differently for no good reason and people need to learn that. However, given the attitude of some people towards race equality legislation ("Why are they getting more privileges than me?") and Black Lives Matter ("All lives matter"), perhaps we need to ditch existing legislation for all groups and simply have equality legislation that applies to everyone. People might get it then.
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