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Originally Posted by Merovigan  Self-righteous is fine for me. I'm not a sociologist, remember? I don't need to fix the world, I just need to point out whose shit stinks and leave it to them to fix it or not.
I have no such need or desire. Bad dog! is accurate and all that an individual needs to exhibit moral behavior. |
I can understand how this could be a hot button issue for you, if I am correct in remembering that you're bi-racial and your wife is white. Getting it from both ends. Sort of like being a bi-sexual, except wearing it on your face.
Why aren't you interested in changing the world? You have kids right? Kids who will have to deal with an unchanged world.
Attitudes towards racism have changed dramatically within my lifetime. The attitudes that my parents grew up with as the norm, are lunatic fringe now.
It wasn't people sitting back and going "I'm better than you are... you're just bad" that changed those attitudes. It was a lot of hard personal work within both communities and most importantly between both communities. People who built bridges based on the willingness to understand and trust.
And in the process, a lot of people came to realize that black/white, us/them thinking was much more fundamentally entrenched in the human psyche. In fact, you're displaying it right now, in this thread.