Dukasaur wrote:lokisgal wrote:bigtoughralf wrote:lokisgal wrote:when you are white you are born with both your legs in your pants, when youre not white you are lucky if you are born with one leg in but you spend the rest of your life trying to get the other leg of your pants on and its a battle every day
Not everyone lives in the US tbf
I didnt say they did but being a POC isnt easy im most places
No, but the idea that whites always have it easy and blacks always have it hard is a very Ameri-centric view of things.
In New Caledonia, for instance, there is a civil war going on right now because the (very dark) Melanesian natives are fighting to prevent the (generally much lighter) immigrants from Asia and Europe from gaining voting rights.
Generally speaking, in any country, at any time, people who are part of the ethnic majority will have an easier time than people who are part of the various minorities. Sometimes that's deliberate policy, but other times is just a function of mathematics -- a member of the majority is more likely to have friends or relatives in high places because his friends and relatives are part of the more numerous group.
It's fair to acknowledge that prejudice often is a deliberate policy, but it's also needful to temper that with an acknowledgement that it often isn't.
POC doesnt just mean Black folk Duk, it means anyone who isnt Caucasian. Could be Black, East Asian , SE Asian, Native/First Nations people and so on and so on.
