Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "ABC7"
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Ignorant white people all tilted in the comments.
I'm non-violent. But I understand what hundreds of years of societal and institutional oppression can do, and has done to people.
This oppression-dynamic isn't specific to whites over blacks. This labor-exploitation of the working-class by the wealthy-class has been going on since the beginning of printed-money -- literally thousands of years. This exploitation of the working-class for their labor, by the wealthy-class owners, has only been exacerbated by Capitalism. It seems like this working-class white lady thought; "Today, I'm going to flex like a wealthy-class Capitalist." It's too bad that someone from the working-class had to remind her what class she belongs to.
I believe the saying goes like this: "Don't start no shit, won't be no shit." But wealthy-class whites already started that shit, and that shit is continued by whites of all classes to this day. So the saying should now be: "Don't keep oppressing, won't be no uprising." Unfortunately, there is a large portion of the white population who won't admit or are too stupid to know the history of this country. The history is this: wealthy-class white people started some shit back in the day, and the oppression associated with that shit is still alive today.
It's all well and good to say; "BUT I AM NOT RACIST!!!" But as history shows, complacency is as bad as complicity. So if you're only mad at the black man for causing physical harm, and not mad at the white woman who intended to do as much psychological and emotional harm as she possibly could by using the "N" word, then you need to pick a "C" word and assign it to yourself.
If you think that psychological harm and emotional harm is excusable, and physical harm is inexcusable, then I hope you don't have access to any children or old people who can't stand up for themselves under psychological and emotional oppression.
The man and the woman are both in the wrong. Failure to admit anything short of that is an expression of your bias or ignorance.
Furthermore, nobody should be going to Popeye's anyway. The place shouldn't even exist. If the garbage-barrel company didn't exist then this particular incident of racism wouldn't have happened. Not to mention, the trash-bag products they sell can barely be considered food.
Just like the plantations in the past, and just like every other modern-day corporation, Popeye's is just a front-business for a modern-day Ponzi scheme. Its sole purpose is to exploit the poor-class workers, while the wealthy-class owners do next to nothing as they collect the profits from exploiting the poor-class for their labor.
It is possible to be white and not a complete "C" word at the same time.
I'm white.
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