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Originally posted by KiiPopHunty
This, unless you agree with what your ancestors did.
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Equally as awful, a lot of people are
content with what their ancestors did.
You don't have to actively support racism to be a cog in the wheel. You just have to be okay with letting it continue. That alone implicates you in maintaining and perpetuating systemic racial inequality. Not everybody owned slaves, but they were complicit in letting it occur for so long. Not everybody lynched blacks who violated Jim Crow, but they were complicit in letting it occur. Not everybody advocates for the "hard on crime" legislation anymore (like Hillary Clinton once did), but they're complicit in letting it occur by not challenging it where it exists today.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.