Raven Saunders still looking to meet an oppressed person. There's about a dozen places she could move to understand what real oppression is. I'll set up a gofundme page to help her get there.
There are one or two key differences in her experience
Aug 2, 2021, 9:40 AM
in this country as a black person and those gentlemen on the stand. The situations are far from analogous, as are the rationales of those who disagree with their actions.
Re: There are one or two key differences in her experience
Aug 2, 2021, 10:42 AM
Oh, I know.
One of the more tiresome and frustrating thing about liberals is their shrill persistence that zero progress has been made and certain elements of their Big Tent continually vie for the award of Biggest Victim. It's just this bleak, the-sky-is-falling, despair-filled view of the universe.
Of course...the same is increasingly holding true of MAGA as well. Not that they see this for one second about themselves.
The more the left wants to change things, the more the right pushes back for status quo, and vice-versa.
The ######## started when both sides started viewing the origins of these ideological differences as being rooted in evil intentions. Empathy is dead, ergo so is compromise, and I'm not sure how we get it back.
I might just bookmark this post because I think I flog this thought ad nauseum.
I don't agree or disagree with her actions, or what she says she believes in, but no one can speak to what her experience is as a black person in this country. Just like I could speak for you and whatever you are, and you can't for me. She could justify her stance based on what she's been through.
I completely agree with what you said below though. The lack of empathy we have as a society is a big reason we have the division we currently see.
She didn't go to a segregated school. She wasn't forced to use separate water fountains and bathrooms, nor ride on the back of a bus. She likely never got chastised for talking to a white man 1-1 the way they would have for talking to a white woman 1-1. Life ain't perfect for her or anyone else, but I can say with 100% assurance that her life experience as a black woman is far, far improved from their lives as black men, at least as it concerns matters solely focused on her race.
What requires conjecture on my part, but I'd bet a lot of money towards if it were proveable, is that the number of people who disagree with her actions based solely or partially because of her race is vastly lower than that same metric for Smith and Carlos.
So no, I still contend that the actions of them and her, nor the world they live in, are analogous.
Think her protest had more to do with LGBTQ issues than purely race as many here seem to speculate. I’m not a fan of people always playing the victim…but she was quoted saying "For me, just being who I always aspired to be, to be able to be me and not apologize for it (and) show the younger generation that no matter what they tell you, no matter how many boxes they try to fit you in, you can be you,".
Seems to be more of a role model than victim to me.
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