Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.

• gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you ever stop to consider that it may be exactly because of your obsession with the skin tone of people, that you have so much racism?

  Try imagining being just as obsessed about eye colors. It seems ridiculous right?

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It does seem ridiculous to me. But we tried that. In the 1980’s and 1990’s they made talking about race a social taboo. You just didn’t talk about it. The only effect was to freeze racism in place while white people congratulated themselves on solving it because they didn’t hear about it anymore.

    So it turns out that in order to fight racism you have to talk about it and give financial support to the class that’s been oppressed.

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    • gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am not saying you should just ignore it, or making it taboo. But Americans have gone to the very extreme version where skin-tone apparently has to determine who you are. It seems you have made it taboo not to define yourself by your skin-tone.

      I truly do not understand how you cannot see the problems with that.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is absolutely not taboo to define yourself otherwise, such as by your job, hobby, state, country, etc… but the reason skin tone racism is such a big thing is because that’s what the racists use. Where in other countries it can be more about certain ethnicities regardless of skin color, in the US your skin color was enough to make you a slave or a free man and our racism is based on our slavery. We spent hundreds of years justifying skin based racism and that pseudo science and twisted religion doesn’t just go away like a light switch.

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    • PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You get out of here you SOCIALIST. How dare you suggest we even the playing field for the people who we took opportunities away from for hundreds of years!

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I know right? What’s next, paying the kids we feed to the machines?

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• PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you have a recent example of someone who was denied an opportunity, that is afforded to everyone, based solely on their race?

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    2003 hiring link

    2024 hiring link, PDF Warning, EDU domain

    Modern Day Redlining link

    The studies go on and on. The sheet brigade may not march in your town anymore but they’re still in positions of power pushing down on minorities.

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    • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I didn’t doubt it’s still happening somewhere; just curious how wide spread it is. I read the third link. It was interesting. I wasn’t aware the Justice department spent almost 2.5 years going after lenders.

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• Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the mentality that perpetuates it though

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alright let’s break this down Barney style. You have group A and group B. Group A decides to pelt Group B with oranges every time they leave their house. So Group B moves in together and buys communal umbrellas to live as unmolested as possible. And you think that is perpetuating Group A’s conduct.

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    • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You don’t get it buddy, but that’s alright. Best of luck to you.

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