I’ll end it like this.
Do you think that the white kid that was raised in a religion from suburban KC just naturally arrived at the most rational viewpoint without your own perspective being influenced by the things we are talking about?
I don’t mean to be reductive, but people are influenced by lots of stuff, culture is powerful. You can simultaneously believe that race is a social construct and that it still has profound effects on people’s lives.
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Of course my own perspective is influenced by all sorts of different things. Everyone's is -- including a black person who has personally experienced some form of oppression. That said, I don't think my race or religion or culture should discount my viewpoint of what's most rational though - at least not more than anyone else's. It goes without saying I can't speak about this from anyone's perspective other than my own.
And I agree that culture is powerful and on an individual level, cultures foster individual viewpoints. But if we're trying to get at what's right or wrong (or at least what's more right or more wrong) and why, and if we agree that classism/sectarianism/racism is wrong then I see i no reason we should call classism/sectarianism/racism wrong regardless of race or culture. Applying different moral rules and weights to different races seems sectarian in and of itself. If white culture causes white people to oppress or distrust black people, then I think that's a horrible problem with white culture. I think the same would be true as applied to black culture.
My take is that it's wrong to base your opinion of somebody on their race. We shouldn't hold people personally responsible for the actions of other people just because they look the same. That's wrong. It may happen, and we may understand why it happens, but it's bad for society that it happens, and perpetuating it or excusing it is bad - regardless of who does it. The ideas that "black people are right to distrust/fear white people" and "white people are right to distrust/fear black people" are both awful.
I'm not saying any form of racial or religious preference is "right", I'm just saying it's worse/different when white Americans are demanding their offspring marry white Americans than any other group in the country.
I'd agree that it's different given the different underlying motivations, but I don't agree that it's worse if white people do it. It's clear we're not going to come to an agreement here because I'm more absolutist (in general) on this than you and tortuga are, but it's been a fun discussion nonetheless.