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Why not do as Morgan Freeman says?
Shanadeus
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Morgan Freeman on Racism
From now on I'm never ever going to describe myself as "white", "black", "brown", or as any other stereotypical race descriptor and I hope you'll do the same.
If you never make an effort on an individual level then society as a whole can never act in accordance with the views of Morgan Freeman.
It's kinda like the voter's dilemma, where people find it easy to just give up with the excuse that "my vote is never going to decide anyway", except they have potential societal consequences of negative nature for daring to do this.
What do you think?
Might it perhaps be possible to convince people to think like this man?
Is education and increased living standards the answer?
Discuss!
From now on I'm never ever going to describe myself as "white", "black", "brown", or as any other stereotypical race descriptor and I hope you'll do the same.
If you never make an effort on an individual level then society as a whole can never act in accordance with the views of Morgan Freeman.
It's kinda like the voter's dilemma, where people find it easy to just give up with the excuse that "my vote is never going to decide anyway", except they have potential societal consequences of negative nature for daring to do this.
What do you think?
Might it perhaps be possible to convince people to think like this man?
Is education and increased living standards the answer?
Discuss!
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The trick is recognizing that those differences don't make us better or worse than anyone else.
Next, subtle to non-subtle racism.
...I'm not seeing how this sentence makes sense. Could you possibly flesh it out or explain it in a way that elucidates your point a bit further?
Also, May is Jewish History Month, for anyone that was curious.
Strangely, instead of brilliant post-racial perfection we have, well, this.
But if we don't see if we won't have to deal with the differences and everyone can be happy.
Now it's hard to avoid contact with different people, but if we were to separate people into groups... wait a minute...
Remember, this man also allowed a giant asteroid to wipe out the eastern seaboard during his administration.
Thank about that for a few minutes.
During his incarceration he was a well known smuggler who routinely brought illicit and possibly dangerous goods in.
On the other hand, he did his time, so we shouldn't hold that against him.
And while their may be a Jewish history Month of a Hispanic History Month, how many people really know about it? Black History month is popular because of racisl tension, and Morgan Freeman seems to think that by integrating Black history into general American history, it actually helps you see better how African Americans have affected history.
As well getting rid of monikers of "black" and "white" helps get rid of that seperation, and focuses more on the commonalities of growing up in the United States and the shared experiences that may come from that.
Edit: doing the Morgan Freeman movie naming, wasn't also the same man who died for his country fighting racist southeners?
(Might explain how he became God....)
Except that to get to shawshank he murdered his wife and unborn child, so not exactly a nice guy.
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In regards to the whole getting rid of Black, white, etc, it simple isn't possible. It's a physical trait just like redhair or being really tall. You can't not notice it. And trying to just makes conversations awkward.
"S is awesome you should go talk to S."
"Which one's S?"
"Oh, y'know, the one with the, uh, pale complexion"
"Huh?"
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Then again we need ground up reforms in how American history is taught. I remember learning about how great Andrew Jackson was.
'Cause if he's the one who did that I'm not seeing the problem here, override
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Well he was also the closest thing to Hitler we've ever had in America
Honestly, he's the only president that godwins realistically apply to
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The question then is, outside that sort of situation, why is Morgan Freeman a black man? Why should it be part of his identity?
We were basically taught he was a giant redneck, who threatened anyone with violence that said something he didnt like, who loved to party.
To keep this on topic, he was super racist, even for the time. He's very responsible for pushing indians out of their land.
I think the lives of two people is worth the god-damn-Batmobile.
How does a culture unconcept something?
but they're listening to every word I say
Color consciousness (as opposed to color blindness) effectively puts the blame on people who have been historically oppressed and is closely related to a "bootstraps" mentality. If whiteness and blackness don't exist, then why are black people so poor (of course there are exceptions, but on the whole black family and individual wealth is far less than that of white families and individuals)? Is it that they don't work hard enough? All of a sudden, you're falling back into the old racist stereotypes while trying to get rid of racism through the color blindness technique.
To be fair, I don't think that's actually what Freeman said.
He said that people should be known primarily by their unique identifiers, and not first by their most primarily identifiable racial type. I don't think he was saying "nobody should ever say x is black or y is white", but that you shouldn't be using that as an identifier.
I think.
I think you're right, I should have been clear that I was referring to the OP exhorting everyone to stop using the words "white" "black" and "brown" to describe themselves ever. While I identify primarily as taoistdrunk, I will continue to acknowledge that my whiteness shapes my life experience in conversations where it's relevant.
The black family that is poor is poor because they are poor - and should be helped from their poorness by directly helping them and fighting the conditions that made them poor in the first place.
If those conditions are other people looking at the black family with colour consciousness that take shape in the form of racism then sure, acknowledge that other people's view of this particular family as black is the problem - that it's racism that's at fault.
Guess that's kinda what surrealitycheck said.
So yeah, I still won't call you black person or white person when speaking of, or to, you but I will recognize that you are particular appearance might cause other to treat you in an unjust manner.
He also beat the crap out of a would-be assassin, after both the killer's guns misfired. Aides had to pull Jackson off the dude.
How do you not have a concept of race?
No matter how much you wanna pretend, Morgan Freeman's skin is still an extremely noticeably different colour then mine.
Race, or really just differences between groups, is a concept you cannot eliminate. What you have to do is teach people how to handle it.
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Not to mention tribalistic garbage which is race-by-surname.
Racism isnt caused just because we are different. I'm white but im different from every other white guy out there.
Its racism because you point to the skin color as an excuse to dislike someone.
I put it to you, is it possible in todays Politically correct world for a white man to hate a black man for a reason other then racism? What if that black man was rich and the white man was poor, and the black man forclosed on his house? What if the black man was just an asshole to the white man?
I'm completely against racism. However the simple truth is that too many people believe playing the race card is the ONLY response that explains negative actions.
Morgan freeman is my favorite voiced actor.
I take it you have missed the discussions of the many professional and personal failings of Clarence Thomas (a conservative who is where he is only through conservative affirmative action and use of the race card.)
This strikes me as simultaneously ignoring historical context and present issues of differing forms of privilege all while not really being able to scale at all to attempt to address societal issues at the societal level. You can't write policy for 300,000,000 individuals. It also somewhat ignores how people today who are in no sense racist can still fuck over racial minorities writ large due not to other present day racists, but solely to past injustices that have negatively impacted transgenerational wealth transfer or access to various means of self improvement. You can try to shift things from a more racial lens to a more classist lens, but it won't necessarily work for all of the innumerable problems driven by race and racism.
And this is still staying at the cultural level, let alone physiological issues in medicine. The commencement speaker at my graduation is doing some groundbreaking work in treating breast cancer in women of primarily african descent because their bodies respond differently to different approaches in comparison to those of european descent. Maybe one day we can get to genetic medicine where everything will be fully individualized, but we sure as hell aren't there yet. Issues of race are way more pernicious than any one individual's reaction to people. Even if everyone stopped thinking racist thoughts today there would still be massive issues to overcome. Not that you as an individual should just say fuck it and be a bigot, that would be bad, but it's so much bigger than that.
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