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<blockquote data-quote="ericstephen" data-source="post: 8489216" data-attributes="member: 7029405"><p>I don't know how old you are, but I'm 53 & was 20 in 1988, growing up in white working class Brooklyn & most ppl didn't CARE about the plight of Native Americans or Black people but lots of ppl knew about the history to some extent. I played Shadowrun w my friends who still had racist views of all sorts of ppl despite having sympathy for the plight of cyber-fantasy Native Americans depicted in SR lore. Additionally, we have been talking about how the US broke basically every treaty it signed with Native American nations for a lot longer than 33 years.</p><p></p><p>Back then, NYC was dealing with "tense" race relations (ie, the super racist mindset of a majority of white New Yorkers [NOTE: majority is being generous as in my experience, the VAST majority of white folks in Brooklyn that I interacted with were really racist]) w Black ppl being killed for daring to show up in the wrong neighborhood, etc. & then being mocked with racial slurs & stereotypes, which one finds happening today despite the fact that PUBLICALLY ppl claim to be so much less racist than the US used to be.</p><p></p><p>Also, I think the main reason ppl cling so tenaciously to how "NOT RACIST" the times we live in are is so that racial minorities can be blamed for the issues they face instead of the nation taking a real look at it's ugly history and present day. But you know, what do I know? It's not like Black & other scholars tried to teach ppl how the institution of slavery drove the narrative of this country from the very beginning of the arrival of the first European colonists & white ppl flipped out (I'm being sarcastic, please see the hysteria around the 1619 Project & effective use of critical race theory as a terrifying threat to US society).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ericstephen, post: 8489216, member: 7029405"] I don't know how old you are, but I'm 53 & was 20 in 1988, growing up in white working class Brooklyn & most ppl didn't CARE about the plight of Native Americans or Black people but lots of ppl knew about the history to some extent. I played Shadowrun w my friends who still had racist views of all sorts of ppl despite having sympathy for the plight of cyber-fantasy Native Americans depicted in SR lore. Additionally, we have been talking about how the US broke basically every treaty it signed with Native American nations for a lot longer than 33 years. Back then, NYC was dealing with "tense" race relations (ie, the super racist mindset of a majority of white New Yorkers [NOTE: majority is being generous as in my experience, the VAST majority of white folks in Brooklyn that I interacted with were really racist]) w Black ppl being killed for daring to show up in the wrong neighborhood, etc. & then being mocked with racial slurs & stereotypes, which one finds happening today despite the fact that PUBLICALLY ppl claim to be so much less racist than the US used to be. Also, I think the main reason ppl cling so tenaciously to how "NOT RACIST" the times we live in are is so that racial minorities can be blamed for the issues they face instead of the nation taking a real look at it's ugly history and present day. But you know, what do I know? It's not like Black & other scholars tried to teach ppl how the institution of slavery drove the narrative of this country from the very beginning of the arrival of the first European colonists & white ppl flipped out (I'm being sarcastic, please see the hysteria around the 1619 Project & effective use of critical race theory as a terrifying threat to US society). [/QUOTE]
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