SoonerBounce13
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I understand that. But these kids are singing this chant to be cool. Reality is they probably all have black friends and have nothing against black people. They just have no character and fall to peer pressure.Their attitudes -- or attitudes like theirs -- killed plenty of people. A misguided sense of superiority and entitlement just like theirs impacted millions of lives and continues to do harm today. These idiots aren't in power today, but they soon will be--some of them, anyway.
I never said laugh it off. But to act like people are directly attacking you and walking out of events is a little too much imo.A black student at OU today may well have (or have had) grandparents who lived under Jim Crow, who had to use separate bathrooms, separate entrances and seating areas in movie theatres, separate water fountains. Should he laugh it off when a bunch of frat boys are joyfully singing songs about lynching?
A dear friend of my family who grew up in Atlanta remembers very well having to enter Atlanta's Fox theatre, a gorgeous movie palace still in use today, by a long stairwell that took him and his parents to the balcony. They were allowed to sit nowhere else. He remembers whites-only water fountains and restaurants and other degradations his family went through.
His son just finished grad school. His son. So this is not ancient history we're talking about. In some cases, we're talking about one generation, two at the most. My friend doesn't have to play the victim; he was one.
Exactly my point. people are getting upset about something that pales in comparison to the real injustices done 50 years ago. These are black athletes, getting paid to go to school, and have many privileges that majorities don't even have. To act like this is really causing them grieve is a little silly in my mind.
What whatever, I know most won't see it this way. Everywhere you look in society today people are always looking for a reason and excuse to be insulted and a victim