Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
by wpietri on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:56PM
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Agreed, with one caveat. It isn't "people" who think that racism just went away. It's white people.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
by danShumway on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:02PM
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Right, good catch.
It's important to keep in mind that Black communities (and a lot of other marginalized communities) as a group don't really have these debates as much, because it's completely obvious to them that they aren't being treated equally.
The existence of slavery and the view that Black people could be treated as livestock are why we had segregation policies.
The existence of slavery fueled white anger towards the idea that the "livestock" were suddenly being allowed to go to the same places and use the same services as white people. The generations of people who owned slaves raised the generations of people that enforced segregation, and those generations raised the people today who enforce racial discrimination and oppose racial justice.
And like you said, this isn't far-back history, segregation in the US was recent. People have this flowery view that racism just went away and that slavery just suddenly stopped mattering. But the effects are still very much with us today. A few generations isn't enough to eliminate a culturally pervasive, harmful ideology.