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Originally Posted by Ammi
..see, I understand this and I don't think that I always have and been a bit confused sometimes, in that I've sometimes thought that all lives matter because they do and because we don't see skin colour, we see people...but I totally understand, it's just all detracting onto other prejudices and other wrongs but they're not the wrongs that are being highlighted so it's almost like it's being dismissed or becoming lost and diluted...this is about black lives matter, nothing more, nothing less, this is this focus...
..there was another thread recently about views on homosexuality...(I know, I'm making that analogy/sorry..)...but obviously there are still many mind-sets and prejudices there as well..the thing about it for me though, is that prejudice/the focus on any prejudice, which is where the focus should be...(the same as with the focus on black lives matter..)...is always going to be detracted from when people feel as though they're being judged also and prejudiced against..?...because that's just going to cause a defensiveness and voices and words ere then lost...uggghh, I'm not explaining this very well, I have a fuzzy head this morning with a cold..CeeCee, you make me think so much about things, like the racism in professional sport...I had no idea but you really highlighted that and I love your passion and you know how much I respect you ...but it often can feel as though you're shouting at people and shouting down their voices..and in situations like that, it's only going to cause a thing where your points are not being heard and that's such a shame...maybe it's appropriate sometimes and I know that you speak from your heart..(and you have a beautiful heart..)...but it's also detracting from black lives matter and everything that should be important if people are feeling attacked or themselves, prejudiced against....CeeCee, you explain, you explain beautifully and from that there is understanding but with 'tssskkk', all there will remain is defensiveness and voices lost....
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Yea that's the point I'm trying to make opinions are being dismissed. It's like on tumblr, black bloggers starting black out day where black people post pics of themselves and appreciate their features and everything that's beautiful about them. Well there was some white people crying " what about whiteout day, why can't we have whiteout day. White race is beautiful too" weeeeell the response is, every day is whiteout day all around you. Open up a mainstream magazine white features are considered epitome of beauty, articles about black women being ugly are written. If a black woman is called beautiful here's something Eurocentric about her. Simply Google "beautiful people" whites turn up. So yeah...
I kissed my teeth "tsssk" cause I was tired and couldn't be arsed anymore.
24-01-2016, 08:30 AM
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