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Originally Posted by aliferste
yea but what i meant was that one you realise that....then you can move on and do something about it. Which is what i try and do!
So what is your opinion on it then? Does it annoy you that a group can promote "black spirit" ?
Do you think that "white spirit" should be promoted?
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I agree with you to the extent that, growing up, I didn't spot the racist assumptions in our society ... they were just there and I was immersed in them, the jokes etc. However like you I have tried to do something about it since becoming 'aware'. I really do think that things have moved on in this country since then (I'm thinking back maybe 15 years), which is why I can't accept a charge of 'institutional racism' on the whole of 'white' society - enough of us know better, I think. I'm quite prepared to admit that plenty still don't, tho'.!
As for promotion of 'black spirit', no, that doesn't annoy me, certainly not if I have understood it correctly. I am giving it a wider interpretation than I think you are, as you seem to want to define black spirit in terms of oppression and nothing else. As for 'white spirit', I don't think there is a need for it to be 'promoted' in an abstract sense, but then that's not the original point raised in this thread. The original point, as I understood it, was to compare directly an advert for someone with 'black spirit' to join a band with a similar, theoretical advert under similar circumstances for a person with 'white spirit.'
In those circumstances, because I do not see the 'white spirit' as fundamentally defined by oppression, I don't see a problem.