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09/17/11(Sat)05:50 No.29743633>>29743559
Part of coping with blatant bigotry and the like, when you encounter it, comes with realizing that:
1. There are ignorant people everywhere. Even if it doesn't seem so at times, and while it's still easiest to be white here, America is much better with the whole 'multiculturalism' thing than most other countries. They really don't have a fucking clue.
2. You can't change this shit all by yourself.
3. The scope of what you can change, especially when you are young, will involve small, incremental changes to people with whom you have close, interpersonal relationships. You may have a group of mostly enlightened, middle-class friends who grew up knowing a diverse crowd. That will not be the case as you age, and even now odds are one of your friends has a parent who mouths off with this shit time to time.
4. When you get older and have resources, influence, etc. you can actually take a bit more action. At your job, set a tone of tolerance. Not in the bullshit "say happy holidays instead of merry christmas" way, but if you hear some off-color remarks about a new employee, just call people out and say that its fine to critique them for being unproductive, but not cool to say they're "a lazy nigger". If you, say, serve on a local school board, simple things like dividing high schools so that you don't end up with one all-black school cordoned off in your district. Might be inevitable based on geography, but creative, small touches that increase interaction can help. |
