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Originally posted by Venom☥
See I don't understand this whole "your own people" stuff. Just because someone has a similar skin colour to you doesn't make them any more "yours" than someone with a different skin colour. You could be no less related to someone with the same skin colour as you could someone who wasn't. So how are they any more "yours"? Just because you both have a similar skin tone? That's stupid. This whole "us vs them" mentality is ridiculous. And I know that it is ingrained in society due to white people, I get that. But I just think it's ignorant for anyone to think like that.
People are people. Be proud of who you are as a person, not your skintone that's pointless.
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See, Venom, with all due respect, this is exactly how I can tell you're White. You haven't experienced
real racism, so of course you don't understand the NEED for a group mentality/sense of community/solidarity.
"Us vs. Them" thinking is sad, but a sad reality. The reality of the situation is that we are not all the same and that many hate us for being different. I'll be more blunt: the WORLD is anti-Black, and I shouldn't have to explain how. That is the situation White supremacists have created. Even Whites who don't necessarily hate us or think of us as lesser people, still often lack respect for our culture, history, and struggle - that lack of respect is ingrained in them by society.
The truth is: EVERYone appreciates Whiteness, but Blackness is largely shamed (I shouldn't have to go into that). If Black people don't appreciate Blackness, no one else will - is the realistic mentality that I and A LOT of us have.