Comments by "Emsley Wyatt" (@emsleywyatt3400) on "'Casual racism': Don Lemon slams texts from Ahmaud Arbery's killers" video.

I'm a white guy and hearing about slavery doesn't make me uncomfortable for being white. I never owned any slaves and neither did any of my ancestors. And if they had, so what? I have no more control over the behavior of my ancestors than I do that of my descendants a hundred years from now. We're responsible for ourselves and ourselves alone. Of course, people should learn about stuff that happened and that is happening even today. It's the only way to keep it from happening in the future. But, bottom line, if someone does something to you or a family member or a friend and you hold that against some uninvolved party solely because of that person's paint job, you ain't wired right.
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@noble604 Personally, I went to a school which was pretty evenly split, racially speaking. A lot of those folks (black and white) are still my friends today.
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@renideo Such an in-depth reply merits recognition. I'm not astonished by the explosion of overt racism. Many of us saw the election of Obama not as proof that racism had been overcome, but that it could be, and in time, would be. Others viewed it very, very differently. Another factor is that there are folks out there who've turned bigotry into a business model and once profit gets involved it's very hard to step on it.
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