Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Perils of Limiting the Discussion of Race to Blacks and Whites

I just finished reading an article over at MSNBC detailing a terrible situation in a Philly neighborhood between black and Asian students in a local high school. Here is the link. It's disturbing to me, because it seems that those Asian kids clearly are being harassed based on their racial and cultural differences. It's also apparent that this particular South Philly neighborhood is in the midst of cultural change, and some of the black students are reacting.

And this is different from whites going after blacks during the age of integration how? There seems to be little difference, and the perpetrators of the violence against these students should be called on their racism and their violence (and I don't want to hear the bullshit line about black folks inability to being racist). If the victims and violators were reversed, we would certainly hear of it, and rightly so.

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