You're justifying racism by blaming it on other people. Here:
You showed a video twice that said "Morgan Freeman solves the
race problem". Ok. He solved it. Don't bring up race as an issue
and it stops being an issue. THEN you imply that 'they' are
still talking about it, 'they' are continuing the racism, but
what's missing here? Your own accountability. You continue to
bring up race as an issue, talking phenotypes and such while
wanting ONLY "people of color" to listen to Morgan Freeman but
not yourself. Can you see why this looks like very strange
behavior? == In the USA, there is a thing as race. In the USA
there is a thing as white privilege. I suspect this is also an
issue in some other countries as well. South Africa comes to
mind. A few Western and Eastern European countries have issues
with racism. I know Australia does as well. But I see each of
these as distinct LOCAL issues, somewhat unique to each nation.
Historically, people are more likely to be divided in OTHER
ways. Religious alliance is one. Or what nation they come from.
Their group alliances and such and most importantly, what Family
line they come from. All more or less the same idea. I don't see
race as a significant issue in world history until around the
16th century, give or take. Anything before that, it's better to
speak of national differences or religious alliance differences.
So, in some contexts race does make a difference. In other
contexts, such as "Was Plato White?" is nearly a meaningless
question. = On computers, separated paragraphs look nicer. On
phones, having a single paragraph for everything looks better. I
like white-space. = Me, personally, I'm glad to be in the USA.
I'm glad to be "American white". Male. 6' tall. Beard. Even
glasses gives me a "nerd privilege": People listen to me when I
talk because I have glasses and am an active listener, so people
assume I'm smart and worth listening to. Silly fools. == Oddly,
I like when I'm talking in a group and someone says, "What's he
talking about?" and someone else replies, "Just let him finish.
He does that." == I *personally* find the narrative of "white
supremacy" being the reason for a number of historical events to
be rather ridiculous. I tend to think in terms of nations and
their actions against other nations. When I think of racism, I
think of local problems. The US has a race problem unique to
itself. The whole planet however, does not. Australia has a race
problem unique to itself. The whole planet does not. Local
issues. == If there is racism in China (I don't know if it does
or not as I'm not well studied), it has unique particulars that
make "Chinese racism" not equivalent to "American racism". In
the USA for example, racism is typically structured among
Americans vs Americans. Racism in Australia however, tends to be
Australians who were put there or migrated from Britain
primarily vs Asian immigrants. Or between historically placed
(or migrated) British vs the Aboriginee peoples. We may call
each of them "racism", but I don't think it's particularly
meaningful to do so and globalize it. Each country has unique
internal issues to itself with regards to a thing that happens
to be called racism in each case, but, except for some broad
spectrum commonalities like bigotry, they're not really
equivalent. == The "four race split" via 19th century Science,
for example, is not universal. It never was universal. It's
accepted in a very few countries. Other countries have their own
racial lines. == In the USA, there is a race problem. Everybody
has stories to tell how they were either a victim or a
perpetrator of it and usually both. It's not always about class
separation, nor necessarily even primarily. However, it _could_
be argued, in your favor, that public perception of racism is
based UPON a perceived class separation that seems to follow
color lines, which would place primacy to class separation, or
at least pubic perception of it, over color lines... or at least
place race and class separation in the same bucket of,
"perceived differences", yet I think they'll still separate
within that bucket like oil and water. Now that Ive said that,
please admonish me for talking in circles. ===
