Everywhere (in the US). Where's the front, what the weapons? Think, for example, red-lining. Or the steam-roller effects of second-rate education combined with both economic and political suppression. The weapons evolving, the purposes unchanging.But where's the race war? Maybe I just don't understand what a race war is, — frank
Maybe it's more like a "Cold" Race War, rather than a "Hot" Race War.But where's the race war? Maybe I just don't understand what a race war is, if there's one underway. Do you see it? — frank
Everywhere (in the US). Where's the front, what the weapons? Think, for example, red-lining. Or the steam-roller effects of second-rate education combined with both economic and political suppression. The weapons evolving, the purposes unchanging. — tim wood
Maybe it's more like a "Cold" Race War, rather than a "Hot" Race War. — Harry Hindu
did he also encourage racists across the world? — frank
Is there a race war underway? — frank
I think it's safe to say that most Americans don't realize a race war is underway. — frank
wish when life comes to normality, we would forget this differences and confrontation between us as humans. — javi2541997
Please explain in what way calling racial conditions in the US a war makes a solution to those issues easier or more likely. — T Clark
The only advancement racists have made in the last while is the critical race theorists permeating academia and the industrial media complex. It will lead to segregation, apartheid, but not war. — NOS4A2
The extremists on both sides, and the politicians that use the rehetoric that created and then reinforce the extremists. The rest of us are able to see that another person excercising their liberties isn't necessarily a threat to our liberties. Only when others try to take a larger piece of the pie than they deserve because they've been led to believe that they have been slighted in some way, does it affect everyone. Over-representing some is under-representing others.Who are the people engaged in this cold race war? — frank
Peering at life through the racial lens is the problem to begin with. — NOS4A2
How much of it is really continuous with historic racism, and how much of it is the outlet for today's fears? — frank
Peering at life through the racial lens is the problem to begin with. Mental segregation leads to real segregation. Teaching impressionable youth to use this lens, often for cynical reasons, creates racists. — NOS4A2
The rest of us are able to see that another person excercising their liberties isn't necessarily a threat to our liberties. — Harry Hindu
The rest of us are able to see that another person excercising their liberties isn't necessarily a threat to our liberties. — Harry Hindu
Some examples would include a black person marching against police brutality, in which some cops view that as a threat to their holding a job. Marching against police brutality won't make you lose your job if you aren't a cop engaging in police brutality. If you are a good cop, then you should be joining the march as weeding out those bad cops will give all cops a better name for themselves. All groups have been victims of police brutality.What are you talking about specifically? — frank
The extremists on both sides, and the politicians that use the rehetoric that created and then reinforce the extremists. The rest of us are able to see that another person excercising their liberties isn't necessarily a threat to our liberties. — Harry Hindu
A white person marching for ensuring that votes are legitimate doesn't threaten someone's rights to vote. — Harry Hindu
But where's the race war? Maybe I just don't understand what a race war is, if there's one underway. Do you see it? — frank
The upshot of all this is that long term race and class discrimination is impossible to overcome without very radical changes, and short of a revolution, which is unlikely to happen. — Bitter Crank
If your title would be the "national race and ethnicity writer for The Associated Press", would your objective be to provide solutions race relations or to show that serious racial problems exist in the US and that they matter?I'll ask again. Please explain in what way calling racial conditions in the US a war makes a solution to those issues easier or more likely. — T Clark
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