All four of the people shown on this video from this panel bring up spot on and important points. Anti-immigrant (which is anti-poc) sentiment is on the raise and yet you still have prominent people and the majority spouting off about how this country is so post racial. And during all this the right are framing this as some sort of ‘white people are the real victims of discrimination’ and ‘see how these brown people from other countries hate us and out freedoms’ bullcrap. While the prominent left won’t even touch racial issues.
So now we’re living in an era where it is worse to call someone racist (omg how can you say such a thing? my best friend is black! you don’t even know me to judge me! freedom of speech, man, why do you hate my freedoms?) than to actually be one.
But when bank loaning tactics are used to prey on poc’s living in urban areas it’s completely ignored until it’s white people in the suburbs and now all of a sudden now it’s a big deal and such a tragedy. It was wrong before. So wrong. And maybe the mortgage collapse could have been avoided if our government didn’t care so little about people who aren’t white.
So much for moving forward… if anything we’re taking steps back.
