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Originally posted by Melquiades
Institutional racism and cultural racism cannot exist against white pople in America / Europe I guess, cuz their race is not oppressed. But CASUAL RACISM does exist against white pople, and it shouldnt be dimissed.
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Where I'm from, we refer to it as "Racism in the U.S."
I often sit and kii with my Jamaican friends at some of the levels this forum takes the subject. And it just reflects badly upon the United States as a whole. But who are we to judge the lives of people who live in a different society than us? But that's the point -- it
is different from us, and the lives of black people in our countries. We're not saying the same thing for a laugh.
You have Americans communicating with the rest of the world, telling people that in order to experience racism, your race must be oppressed. And I sit here as a young adult from a Irish immigrant family and wonder, did my family not experience racism then? Do I have to be black? And for sharing opinions and too trying to educate the people who think different than I, moderators enforce opinions upon everyone and we have no choice to accept that
only black people experience racism.
Nothing I, or anyone that seems to share the same views (on and off this forum) can say really.