Using the age excuse now

I know how the world works as well as any of you (which doesn't mean I don't have more to learn or that are won't change me). Just because you take a more negative outlook on things doesn't make your opinion wiser or more adult. The "militant" posters on here are the ones who have the most unrealistic views on the world generally. I have no delusions about the beliefs of the white populace, I talk to them, I read the studies, I've experienced racism. Only difference is I don't focus on one side of it and in all of those things I focus in on the nuance and don't make general statements about them because that's what I wouldn't want done to me. You're telling me it's more realistic to believe that you can stop interracial relationships by calling people c00ns when that's over 90% of the black population even if you deny it

It's more realistic to expect a race war to pop off

It's more realistic to be a Pan-African breh

Its more realistic to say fukk everyone who's not black and build in America on your own

Or is it more realistic to believe that change is a gradual process and that the idealistic progress people on here want for black Americans is impossible especially when they long after the "unity" we had prior to integration when that was the result of forced association and necessity and we don't have a language barrier like Asians or Mexicans or the constant influx of immigrants on the part of the latter and so instead the methods for progress should be reworked for a modern day America in a way most people would accept? Aka not almost everything said on thecoli. I don't envision a kumbaya future, that's unrealistic and against HUMAN nature. But I do recognize that if you plan to continue to live in the United States of America and not try to start a back to Africa moment that will inevitability fail you can't walk around daily angry at everything you see and angry at every non black individual or black individual that doesn't fit your view of what blackness should be because not only is that unhealthy you'll just be angry for the rest of your life. And that if you plan to stay here it'll be impossible just as it's been throughout history without the help of non-blacks and that the way thecoli tries to push Hispanics and Asians and Whites away will just doom them and push away other black people who don't have this isolationist mentality

People on here get ridiculously outraged everytime a non black person or black person doesn't share their opinion/is in a friendship or interracial relationship or interacts on a level they don't approve of with a white person. Why waste your energy getting mad at the inevitable and proposing impossible solutions and shaming people for being different when you can look at what you do have, and what progress has been made, you know the brighter side and see how it can be built off of? Separating won't do that for you it'll make it worse, people have more empathy for people they're closer to. Instead of railing against these fairly arbitrary things why not think about how people's minds can really change, because contrary to popular belief it's incredibly easy for people of all races to be oblivious to most societal ills or be opposed to the existence of them based on uncontrollable factors such as whatever group you belong to. Which is why I believe a sociology class should be mandatory for all students to take or more sociological concepts should be implemented in English and history classes, it doesn't take much to educate people on this buy those simple steps aren't taken. Rather then just teaching about Jim crow, five minutes can be taken out of standardized test training to plant the idea of how those laws effect us today. Rather than just teach about race riots like happened at our school, the economic damage they cause and how they effect us in 2015 can be thrown in, all it would take is three minutes to plant the most basic idea in a students head because the way I see it history is taught but the link to the present isn't emphasized enough, we read beloved, we read Malcolm X, but we aren't taught how to view them properly. But that's just one idea. Rather than fight interracial relationships which is impossible use them as links to teach people your struggle and get them involved, recognize that being in one doesn't invalidate your ability to work towards human rights as a collective. The problem is that you guys are reacting to the effects of oppression in a nuclear Fashion and think that the only way to overcome it is with nuclear action when all that does it put people off.