[justathrow2k]

This is an incredibly racist way to look at the issue.

[dragonwriter]

Recognizing that, in practice, racial identity in the US has a significant correlation to various differences in life experience is not racism.

[justathrow2k]

I would agree, that's not racism. However, I would say that a blanket statement about all members of a race such as this, 'black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works.', is.

[integraton]

It is when it ignores class and takes people of different ethnic and economic groups and treats them as homogeneous based on skin color alone.

[JoshTriplett]

It's an incredibly racist way for the world to work, but in practice it does. Fixing that requires noticing it, acknowledging it, and finding the reasons for it.

[coldtea]

There's absolutely nothing racist about that statement.

It's actually a very accurate description of how a group that historically is facing systematic injustices and racism get to have fewer illusions than the comfortable majority.

If anything, it's ANTI-racist.

Not being racist is not the same as believing that racial minorities have absolutely the same experiences and outlooks as the majority.

A group of who had the cops enforce Jim Crow and segregation on them, or arrest, harass and shot them far more often than another group, has a different outlook on this "justice" thing.

[justathrow2k]

So, I hope I'm using this term correctly, but it seems like you're building a straw man here. I certainly never made the claim that everyone has the same experience and outlook regardless of race. However, as I mentioned in another one of my replies, making a blanket statement that 'black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works.', reeks of racism to me. In this day and age, people are born into many diverse situations, regardless of shared racial makeup.

[ddebernardy]

Not sure why you're reading racism in that. Around a third of black men spend time behind bars in the US:

http://www.alternet.org/story/154587/1_in_3_black_men_go_to_...

[CapitalistCartr]

In the USA, the legal system is quite racist.

[joesmo]

Fixed: most black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works

Now it's not "racist". Can we move on?

EDIT: Clarified that it never was racist.