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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Should every white person have to prove themselves to me before I respect them or think they're not racist?
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I suppose as a white person I find that happens to me a lot; that I have to prove I'm not racist. And of course that is often met with differing levels of success.
I think we can agree upon the fact that there is a significant number of natives who are not living a high quality of life. And then it's news articles like this one that serve to perpetuate some of the stereotypes we have about natives.
And I think we can all agree (native and non-native) that we would rather see all the money that is spent trying to help natives actually doing some good. And that's where my comments earlier about "when are we done paying reparations" come from; I would rather have twice as much federal money going to programs that will help to proverbally teach them how to fish, instead of what's been happening for the last 300 years of just giving them the fish.