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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
In my family there are many men/boys. I am one of 4 sons. My father one of two sons. My parents have 12 grandsons in a row. Finally a girl on the 13th try.
Out of 20 or so males, there is one step-child who is mixed race.
Most of the men/boys have played one sport or another. Trained in the off season. Usually involves logging miles jogging.
Out of the oh, 15, so of us who have jogged a bit at one point of another, basically in the same group of neighborhoods, care to guess who is the only one to be stopped by the police while running and asked for ID. Twice now.
Over say 30 years. I'm sure you can figure it out. And, yeah, he's an A student football player if anyone cares.
It's not really that complicated. I have Harvard undergrad/Harvard law friends who have been put on the pavement facedown more that once or twice. For no real reason other than someone of his race was suspected of doing something somewhere. It's not that complicated.
Deny it all you want. This is the reality dark skin people face every time they leave the house. They are treated differently and unequally from white folks.
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Yes but this is a straw man point, nobody has denied racism still exists although your statement makes an awfully big generalization. So does sexism/misogyny. And anti-Semitism. And homophobia. And so on. The question is whether removing statues changes anything.