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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I had a chat with a friend's mom last night who's pretty with it and sharp but a little Trumpish. She asked who George Floyd was. I was like...well, he's a dead black guy. But was he famous? Not before the cops killed him. Well then why are people rioting? Cause of racism. Then in a perfect SNL moment...Well I don't know about that.
I thought the horse analogy would work well explaining systemic racism. It did not.
Let's say you ride your horse every day and he's a really good horse. He does everything you want him to do. But one day you decide to stop riding him and stop taking care of him. And then you stop being nice to him. And eventually you're really mean to him. Then one day you decide to go for a ride again and he bucks you off. Who's fault is that?
I was surprised to learn how many red necks respond with..."No horse is gonna buck me off. That horse would be on the plane to France"...and so on.
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It's always surprising, despite how often it happens, each time a person's racist tendencies are revealed when they provide their commentary during events like these. The consistently poorly thought out "rebuttals", like "the vast majority of cops are good" or "all lives matter", is so incredibly disheartening.