“I’m all for treating everyone with dignity and respect. But to simply turn a blind eye to race in America is to be willfully blind to the ugliest aspects of our nation’s history and to its living legacy, which includes some really stark patterns of inequality of treatment and inequality of opportunity. There’s conscious or unconscious racial profiling by the police, for one thing–the widespread phenomenon of traffic stops and searches for “driving while black” being just the mildest form of it, but the sorts of incidents pizzagirl describes, and worse, are all too common.”
bclintock, all of your examples in post 269, are examples of NOT treating everyone with dignity and respect. I guess you took the concept of treating everyone well, to be understood as ignoring poor treatment of some. If it was that everyone was treated with dignity and respect, then you would have no examples to give. Of course it is an idealized concept, but I can’t imagine having a problem with people deciding to do that on an individual level. How can anyone complain about that?
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