It's much more difficult however if your ancestors were a party to the wrong end of the triangular trade.. The crime rate figures still reveal unjustified massive racism in the UK police and stop and search is biased to minorities. This also goes for employment ... There are a lot of reasons why you need to suck this up.. One of them is the pensions system in the UK (run by Barclays) was formed directly from the back of slaving money.. Nobody in the UK would have a state pension without the slave trade matey.. I have studied this very deeply .. I suggest you just have to suck up that white privelage It is not nice and no one should ever pre judge anyone .. I get it too .. I can't explain to people I understand so suck it up .. I just know me sucking that up is nothing compared to what was done in the past.. Again my family were not involved in that horror (they were victims), but you can see why people who only three generations ago were branded like cattle and put in leg irons may find it all a bit confusing still.. Some people want to forget - some don't.. I have many African friends .. and as Africa still suffers from the effects of the West you can imagine their view varies from Western people .. !! It's all very interesting .. when you learn about what happened in the past though and that white privelage is very real, what we face as people in the UK seems very mild !

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Yes, I do suck it up, but it still sucks. Many of us (privileged) were also property not long ago; especially women in the not so distant past. I think it perpetuates the issue to think in divides, but I'm not going to discuss it with someone who is attacking me and so has quite obviously made their mind up that I'm part of their problem. (Not you my friend, but those that have a go at me in public). I have friends that are over it too, coffee coloured people that are treated as potential terrorists, people that are a different colour to their ancestors and get to experience a different life due to that. It's a mangle, but it's good when you find those that can see beyond the skin to the person inside.

@girlwithsmiles Yeh I get that!! It does suck .. fact is though we all owe Africa billions matey We wouldn't have a benefits system without it .. It does not perpetuate anything personally as I don't think In divides... the fact is racist people think in divides and we all have to deal with them. The thinking in divides obviously isn't coming from political activists fighting racism is it lol !?! and yes as a woman you were property.. but as a woman of African descent it was way worse.. Everything falls worse .. Mental health - employment .. you can pretend it doesn't but sadly that hasn't worked for four hundred years !!

So what would you suggest as a way forward?

@girlwithsmiles You are welcome to join me on FB for the ride ... There are some very interesting people there.

@girlwithsmiles WE have to do both ... We have to ignore the people vying for attention .. and face it head on when someone is out of order in our personal lives or work situations .. For instance if me and my friends see a kid from a minority being bullied by the police (genuinely not a kid who is a pain but a good kid lol) mobile phones out asking the police what they are doing. What are their names and collar numbers. IF they aren't acting professional they will always bail . . So I agree ignore it as much as possible as long possible but when it rears it's ugly head give it no quarter ... learn and use the law.. I have had a row with a guy this week on FB.. He told me it was, "his right to discriminate against anyone in the UK on grounds of race as a white person" .. so I got out the Race Relations Act .. The European Rights Act and used the legal terms to explain to him why and how I could now have him arrested for some of his view and how he was being offensive online to people .. he was trolling on race issues.. I don't often give them the time and would normally ignore but I could see I could use the very legal statues to make an example of him .. By directly quoting the law I used it to destroy his argument and the other 500 people who liked the article this stemmed fro would see the argument and see how the law works and also see that people like me are here and will not back down for anything .. He was race baiting a Muslim girl who was about 12 and really nice from the UK .. so I thought I would show him what happens when you meet someone who has experience in dealing with this stuff.. In the end the ended up liking my comments and giving in and admitting he was wrong.. I gave him no choice.. I think it's pick your battles wisely ... be you ... be the sunshine you are .. but don't back down if you have no choice but to face it .. as long as you aren't going to put yourself in danger anyway.. just keep on being sunshine and loving everyone and that is the best thing .. I am just saying sometimes as much as I wold love to ignore it you can't .. Just a case of being mindful we don't ignore it so hard the right makes ground.. Right now there has been a massive rise in the right in Europe .. not just people who are a bit disorganised and racist. Tech savvy highly organised people in may groups training in combat .. Ignoring them is definitely the best option .. but you have to be aware suppose is what I am saying .. sometimes you just have to face it .. love is the answer. .. Don't get angry .. anger is where we all lose .. I don't think you would get angry but that is definitely where the cracks start!! its so divisive !! [facebook.com]

@girlwithsmiles for one thing, you have a good heart and good intentions, go forward without owning the actions individuals in your culture were guilty of. Make it clear you had no part in bad behaviors. And more, go forward advocating for yourself and declaring that not all white people are guilty of bad behavior. To lump all white people as prejudiced isn't the way forward. Lots of good white folks, too. Actions of others shouldn't fall on your shoulders.

Thank you @crazycurlz.

lol how embarrassingly public! How did you know my Weltanschaung was kinky?

hahaha what a fun word! My equivalent is 'humans are one pretty screwed up species'.

I think that today the most racist people around aren't even white!
and I'd like to add that Religion is the worst.

You can't believe everything, but lets keep an open mind...

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