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Originally Posted by SydneyK
I agree.
I think the same is probably true of white folks. Which, if true across the ethnic/racial board, makes me wonder whether there is any hope for true nondiscrimination**. If racial and ethnic minorities are taking the difficult discussions to those within their group, and white people are taking the difficult discussions to those within their group, the likelihood of true desegregation** seems extremely low (if attainable at all). If each group is doing this, what goal can we accomplish (and, for that matter, what goal are we trying to accomplish)?
**I wish I could find better terms here. I'm talking about real feelings of inclusion/peace/understanding, and not PC/legal constructs.
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I think the discussions are being had intraracially but not with the goal in mind of fixing the problem beyond solutions that benefit your own group. I think most times it's just a "see, look at what they did now" kind of thing.
Add in the the factor of older generations simply being tired of dealing with the "same ole, same ole" and politicians who know how to manipulate the "nuance of race" to achieve political ends, and it's no wonder that the "problem of the 20th century" is also the problem of the 21st century.
Successive generations start off idealistic, but then life factors (work, getting ahead), fueled, as I said, often by a political structure with less than ideal goals, tend to put most people in a self-preservation mode that relegates loftier goals to second tier status.