• Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orgOP
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    This is incorrect as in order for black and other people of color to be seen and treated as ‘equal’ requires putting them in a position where they can be so. Just ‘treating’ them no different will not drive them out of poverty of allow them to have a say in what goes on in the world. Such viewpoints as the one you have brought up ignore 100s if not 1000s of years of history, the effects of which are still active today.

    The viewpoint you espouse will be good eventually (if it ever happens) but it cannot be the one that gets us to a point where people are actually equal, just a false veneer of it in today’s society.

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      Incorrect. As soon as you stop treating people of different skin colours differently, poverty is only a structural problem and no longer has anything to do with racism. The same applies to participation. If people of different skin colours are not treated differently, they have the same opportunities everywhere.

      Of course, this won’t solve any problems overnight, but it is the foundation for change to happen in the first place.

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        4 days ago

        You seem very commited to this particular viewpoint and do not seem to want to engage seriously with anything I’ve said so I am going to leave it here.