People are getting red pilled on race:
"Rod, my mother is an Episcopalian feminist who has told me many times of her belief that “All political problems are caused by extremists”. I know my mother has black friends and co-workers and I have never heard my mother utter anything remotely racist in her life, until this conversation.
She told me I needed to get my kids “somewhere away from all the black people”, these were her exact words. I was floored. I pushed back on this and she told me that I needed to put the needs of my children over any income considerations, “because it’s not safe to live anywhere near blacks”.
I was stunned by this, I have never heard my mother say ANYTHING remotely like this before. My mother lives in a small midwestern city like Kenosha and what happened there really affected her. I think these Black Lives Matter protests have actually backfired and turned my mother racist and I am simply at a loss for how to handle it.
I sense a similar hardening of attitudes in some of my other white friends. People who I thought of as mainstream GOP conservative but non-racist openly roll their eyes and quickly lose patience with the idea that any of the protests are justified in any way.
From where I’m standing, it’s hard to argue that Black Lives Matters isn’t just creating MORE racism. I’m very worried about the future of our country if this continues." - a reader writing to Rod Dreher
@Heartiste
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/liberal-granny-dark-secret-race-riots/
"Rod, my mother is an Episcopalian feminist who has told me many times of her belief that “All political problems are caused by extremists”. I know my mother has black friends and co-workers and I have never heard my mother utter anything remotely racist in her life, until this conversation.
She told me I needed to get my kids “somewhere away from all the black people”, these were her exact words. I was floored. I pushed back on this and she told me that I needed to put the needs of my children over any income considerations, “because it’s not safe to live anywhere near blacks”.
I was stunned by this, I have never heard my mother say ANYTHING remotely like this before. My mother lives in a small midwestern city like Kenosha and what happened there really affected her. I think these Black Lives Matter protests have actually backfired and turned my mother racist and I am simply at a loss for how to handle it.
I sense a similar hardening of attitudes in some of my other white friends. People who I thought of as mainstream GOP conservative but non-racist openly roll their eyes and quickly lose patience with the idea that any of the protests are justified in any way.
From where I’m standing, it’s hard to argue that Black Lives Matters isn’t just creating MORE racism. I’m very worried about the future of our country if this continues." - a reader writing to Rod Dreher
@Heartiste
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/liberal-granny-dark-secret-race-riots/
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