SCOTUS rules on Travel Ban

[Belsnickel]

(06-27-2018, 09:01 PM)Beaker Wrote: I do have my mind made up. I think exacerbating the victimhood mentality by making up concepts such as institutional racism and white privilege not only does more harm than good for the targeted race, but also creates further separation between races.

But I also have an open mind. I have changed my outlook on many things over my lifetime when presented with good, logical, conclusive evidence. But we do both agree that racism is bad, and that incidents of racism need to be both addressed and squashed. I think we just have different ideas about how that should be done. I am for empowering everyone, not giving them reasons to blame their failures. Everyone has failures. But you need to figure out why you failed, and take steps to overturn it, not find something to blame for it.

You say it exacerbates a victim mentality and gives people something to blame. I view it as a reason to fight for change. I view it as a continuation of the civil rights movement because that work was not completed. I know that some people view it the way you talk about it, but there are many, many people fighting for change and not just sitting around trying to cast blame on something. They see the evidence, they live it. They know the racial disparities in our systems and they work to overcome them every day.