04-18-2018, 10:32 AM
(04-18-2018, 10:26 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Well if you you you as the subject matter expert (I've seen it plenty of times) then you are never going to think you are wrong. But logic leads me to believe that when it is stated that someone refuses to leave they have been asked to do so. She didn't say won't leave she said the refuse. Something has to be offered before it can be refused. You speak about folks inferring. It takes a whole new level of inference to look at this situation as racist. I know it makes some folks uneasy to think every time a person of color is asked to follow the rules that it is not racist. You are not alone.
If proper language rules were being applied, then sure, we could easily infer from her statement that she asked them to leave. But experience leads me to not infer that based upon the frequent use of the phrase without someone being asked. If you haven't seen/heard that, then you would be less likely to think the way I do. Maybe everyone around you only uses proper language all the time.
It is also experience, data, research, studies, and a whole host of other things that lead me to infer that this situation involved racial bias. If someone refuses to acknowledge the existence of the plethora of information on this topic, though, then they may be less likely to see the racial bias involved. Some people just don't understand all this, and some people don't want to know.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
