cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17772988
A helpful guide on how to be less frustrating towards people of color.
There is actually only one way. Don’t treat people differently because of the colour of their skin.
It requires a lot more than that because black people are still overall systemically oppressed, to combat that requires a lot more than not treating people differently because of the colour of their skin.
No, it doesn’t. If they are not treated differently, they will no longer be oppressed. Otherwise they would continue to be treated differently.
This is incorrect as in order for black and other people of color to be seen and treated as ‘equal’ requires putting them in a position where they can be so. Just ‘treating’ them no different will not drive them out of poverty of allow them to have a say in what goes on in the world. Such viewpoints as the one you have brought up ignore 100s if not 1000s of years of history, the effects of which are still active today.
The viewpoint you espouse will be good eventually (if it ever happens) but it cannot be the one that gets us to a point where people are actually equal, just a false veneer of it in today’s society.
Incorrect. As soon as you stop treating people of different skin colours differently, poverty is only a structural problem and no longer has anything to do with racism. The same applies to participation. If people of different skin colours are not treated differently, they have the same opportunities everywhere.
Of course, this won’t solve any problems overnight, but it is the foundation for change to happen in the first place.
You seem very commited to this particular viewpoint and do not seem to want to engage seriously with anything I’ve said so I am going to leave it here.
light-skinned Black people
Wtf is going on in the US
What do you mean?
Some of these are fairly understandable but most of them just seem to be fluff to go to number 100
Also, we don’t even treat black people like this in turkey what’s going on in America?
Are there many black people in Turkey?
Yea a lot even outside large cities like Istanbul Ankara and Izmir
Interesting question. Turns out:
Africans in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye’deki Afrikalılar) are people of Sub-Saharan African descent who are citizens or residents of Turkey. They are immigrant and refugee communities mostly from western, central and eastern Africa. African immigrants are distinct to Afro-Turks [Turkish people of African Zanj descent, who trace their origin to the Ottoman slave trade like the Afro-Abkhazians], which number around 20,000. As of 2017, there are 1.5 million Africans living across Turkey, with one in four residing in Istanbul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africans_in_Turkey
That’s out of:
the country’s population was 85,372,377 in 2023, excluding Syrians under temporary protection.
