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PetesPassing  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Systemic Racism and Standing Up To It (AKA Violence Is Almost Inevitable)

First off, Jesus the amount of jpeg in that image.

Second off, I'm half Mexican does that give me any sort of credibility haha? Well I have grown up around probably more blacks and latinos than whites, but I don't think that matters for my answer.

I'm just going to give my personal opinion. No "being quiet" will never be the answer. Racism in this country is more than a minority of people that are just ill minded. Racism in this country is systematic. The only way for racism to be "solved" (quotations because of course racism as a whole will never fade away) is for the system that we live in to adapt. The only people capable of doing this is the government itself. And so far the government has done a pretty bad job to respond to the systematic racism they're responsible for. If there's one thing all civil rights leaders realized, is that you have to get the government to make a change. Some even saw that since the government wouldn't create change, they should make their own government, thus resulting in the Black Panthers movement. Now to the question of what to do on the part of black americans. Being quiet will not get the government to pass laws in your favor. It never has, never will. I'm not calling for riots, because I don't that ever leads to anything good. I'm just saying that the whole "blowing incidents out of proportion" that people accuse the black community of, is exactly what they should be doing. Make sure they're protesting and make sure the media is filming it. Make congressmen scared for their positions if they don't bring change.

This is just my opinion, and look forward to peoples opinions that disagree!