Let me know if thos statement is wrong .. Why we cant stop talking about racism brilliantly articulated by @organic_olivia Let’s say you were in a relationship with someone, and you hurt them DEEPLY… beyond belief. But yet, you still wanted to stay in a relationship with that person and at least be civil - leaving all the pain, heartache, and resentment behind. How would you do that? Would you sit down and talk about it as many times as it took to hash everything out, analyze every detail and TRULY find closure? Personally, if I betrayed or damaged my partner I would make sure everything was dealt with until THEY communicated to me that they have found healing, because I’m not the person that was hurt here - it was them, by my doing. It would be over when they say it’s over. But how do you think it would pan out if you told them to just “stop talking about it?” To “get over it?” That the pain they still feel was only being perpetuated because THEY were talking about it, which is what you are supposed to do in order to heal? What if you just dismissed their pain without the acknowledgement that THEY still feel it, even if YOU can’t understand that? We are told to NEVER FORGET the events of September 11th. Over the course of one day, almost 3000 lives were lost. We are told to NEVER FORGET the Holocaust where 6 million wasted away. Yet during the transport from Africa to the ‘New World’ ALONE, 2.4 million Africans starved to death, ripped from their families and forced into shackles as property. Over the 400 YEARS of slavery, an estimated 50 MILLION African peoples were enslaved, dehumanized, abused, beaten, treated like dogs, emotionally traumatized, and killed. Yet the same people who will visit memorials for 9/11 and the Holocaust will tell you to “stop talking” about racism. The pain of 400 years does not simply vanish in the last 50 (yes, segregation ended only 50 YEARS ago). Slavery turned into severe racism (lynching, segregation, violence). So where did THAT racism go? Did a civil rights law magically make it disappear? (Did gun laws make the Latin Kings give up their AKs?) The heavily ingrained societal sickness of racism has never fully left & never will *UNTIL* we talk about it-CONTINUED BELOW
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:22:30 +0000
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