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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.

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gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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