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CMV: As a black person, I don't see the merit behind minorities lambasting oppressors of a different ethnicity before holding members of their own community accountable

This isn't an attack on POC. I do not believe any community is a monolith and I know that true progress doesn't happen overnight. I try to call out people that have an overreliance on victimhood or that use buzzwords without really expressing an apt description. I get demonized and insulted regularly for this. I'm hoping to use this opportunity to assess my own opinions and whether they hold up to criticisms. 

Some more specific examples include the concept of reparations for the Atlantic slave trade. I don't believe that chapter of Americana should *ever* be forgotten. I don't think it should be a cudgel with which to beat a white person over the head with when their family emigrated from Ireland and they faced a whole different set of xenophobia and jingoism. I think the lessons should be taught as history and work best when referencing implementing solutions. Justice Thurgood Marshall was sharp in how he addressed Jim Crow and Civil Rights when talking about Affirmative Action but a key point he intimated was that this should advance "with all deliberate speed". I fully acknowledge the abuse and torment of those entrapped in the Atlantic slave trade. I believe those people that ask for reparations are essentially asking for a divestiture of wealth accumulated over generations. It manifests in the form of people giving up jobs at 'white-shoe' firms to the best candidate as opposed to a crony and that takes generations more. My qualm is that members of the majority ethnic group are villainized for their very existence. If this level of animosity was turned to your local neighrhood crip gang member, they would be eradicated. 

That brings me to the violence in the black community. I cannot fathom how this is the fault of anyone but the people perpetrating these acts. I'm extremely ignorant on how oppression compels you to gun down another for respect or street credibility. I (silently) lose respect for the people that defend these murders under the guise that they are products of their community or it wasn't in their ability to not commit violence. I'm not an expert but I've found no other comparison of people being absolved of guilt because of vestiges of systemic racism occurring any-number of years prior. 

Please let me know what didn't make sense or why I'm uninformed here.


EDIT: I've been permanently banned from this sub. It wasn't mentioned why but I assume it was the fact my opinion was just  tad too unpopular.

EDIT: I was never banned from this thread. I misread a message I got from a mod. This is probably a great reason new accounts are discouraged from posting right away. For all the folks calling me a troll or white supremacist for being new, I promise I'm just late to the party. This site is still cool though. 

LAST EDIT: so i don't have to type in replies anymore, when I said policy reform shouldn't come "before" internal accountability,  it's because they're both equal.
gpt
So black people have to fix 100% of the problems in their community before they can address the problems of racism and oppression from the outside?

Seems like an unreachable objective that would permanently delay progress.