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BumRushDaShow

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14. "But that is no excuse for him taking a laissez-faire attitude. "

Reply to Bluetus (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 2, 2025, 05:41 AM

Yesterday

He has NEVER had a "laissez-faire attitude". Like every other POC in this country including myself, he has to navigate two worlds or he will be destroyed while the majority cowers in the background.

W. E. B. Dubois -

and Franz Fanon -

described the problem.

This phenomena has been written about for over a century.

You don't demand that the victim carries all the weight of fighting the victimizers while the kin of the victimizer sits back and lectures the victim for "not doing enough".

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