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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Slavery is bad, yo.
But you also seem to be saying African immigrants and ADOS share the same plight, a position which totally neglects the effects of slavery. Denial of the effects of slavery and racism is tactic 0 in the racist toolkit. I don't think you are a racist but maybe you should think a little about your state of knowledge on the topic.
It's an easy enough mistake. When I say Obama isn't really Black your brain says "Ooh I know this one. Deuces is trying to call Obama a sellout for not acting Black enough. Attack!". But that's not what I am saying at all. I'm simply saying Obama has very little experiential overlap with the U.S. born Black majority whose families have gone through slavery, re-enslavement, Jim Crow, ghettoization, and other assaults too numerous to list here. Not only is Obama not ADOS but he was raised away from the mainland. He is just about the theoretically non Blackest person who could still honestly check Black on a census. Harris approaches that level of removal from the typical Black experience.
Of all the experiences which could overlap, having American Slave ancestors is, in my view, the most critical. Although that can also be mitigated. Take Corey Booker, one of the other handful of Black senators in American history. I don't know his parents national origin, but I know his parents were executives at IBM and fought against racist enemies to move into an exclusive suburb where Corey was raised, presumably among mostly White peers- not at all the typical experience for Black Americans, who also tend not to talk like John C. Riley.