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Originally Posted by Young Drachma
If you believe in freedom, this idea that one person has a responsibility to live amongst the squalor they themselves did not create in an effort to lend authenticity to the very real things they're exposing.
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I believe in freedom and he can live where he wants. But for someone who writes incessantly about white supremacy and the evils of gentrification, it's odd he would use that freedom to live in one of the centers of it.
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Originally Posted by Young Drachma
It's reality. It's history. And that history has been codified into the realities that we're seeing now. None of that excuses criminal behavior. But trying to detach pathology from the realities of how things got that way -- and that those actions were intentional and deliberate, with no disregard for how the future would play out as a result -- doesn't excuse those of us living in the present from reflecting on how those things got to where they did, how they impact what we do now and if we continue to perpetuate half-truths about the reality of the circumstances of millions of Americans (not just black ones) that were legislated and put into the public code using their tax dollars...
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I'm just saying the strategy of constantly looking back and constantly blaming everything on the white man has not worked the past few decades. Maybe a different approach is in order.