What specific type of discrimination is that? Racial? Doesn't change my opinion, call me David Duke or whatever other thing you want.
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Any white American male who claims that a black person's mere aversion to white racism or the possibility of it is RACIST, you need to understand what real racism is. Why not visit your local library and pick up a book? Why not look at pictures of downtown Detroit in the summer of 1943? Why not look at photographs of lynchings of black people? Why not actually study black history and realize it's American history? That would be too tiresome?
OK, white American males. When your people have been systematically stolen, beaten, enslaved, forced to work, forced to forget their language and their culture, then stigmatized, discriminated against, beaten, lynched, exploited, driven into ghettos, and forced into a life of poverty for decades, then you have been discriminated against. Until then, kiss my fat white ass.
Yeah, when I leave my nice, air-conditioned apartment, after sorting through my 401Ks, as I'm biking through the burned-out Lower East Side of Detroit, on my Trek road bike, on my way to my good job downtown, somebody calls me a "cracker," what the fuck does that matter? You could look upon it as a have-not yelling at a have-some. Anyway, look at my life and look at what this motherfucker has?
What are you gonna do? Take down his name and file federal suit against him downtown? Call the motherfuckin' Tea Party? Juh-hee-zus... I guess some people on this forum would, but, I mean, dang...
Being called a cracker is discrimination? Wow you and dnerd are right then. You two are so eloquent and informed and I'm just a racist ogre burning crosses on a lawn for suggesting that discrimination based on race occurs on all sides. But, then again, if I hadn't made my statement it would have cost the two of you the opportunity to pat yourselves on the back as honorary defenders of a an imaginary assault. It provides a couple of fuzzy, warm and proud moments for those who really, really, really, really need them. I'm flattered that my comments became the apparatus used to self-gratify.
Thanks, Dnerd. For a second there I thought it was you taking advantage of another opportunity to self-fellate and remind everyone that you are the coolest person alive for living in the city and for doing "city things". It was just in good fun! I'll head back, thanks for the permission.
Sounds like someone has a bit of white guilt somewhere down the line.
Shit, I never know if anybody's making fun of me anymore. :)
Such a shame that all wisdom must die with you...
For the record, I know English, and she's no racist, far from it.
Stromberg2
There is all kind of racism in our world, but when its aganist whites it's no big deal in many peoples eyes, but use a racist word toward a African American and you get it trouble, double standard. For the record my ansectors never kept slaves, they could barely keep food on the table.
All the guys who lashed out at her are clueless little pr#cks.....Quote:
For the record, I know English, and she's no racist, far from it.
Stromberg2
Well it's true. Can't blame every white person for slavery and not every black person is accepting goverment aid. I'm sik of stereo types, it drives me nuts. I hate when i meet someone new they think i'm arabic, then its usually followed by do you know any good arabic restaurants, then I tell them i'm of Albanian descent, there like of that not in the middle east.
I KNOW! I'm tired of this anti-white racism. It has affected me SO MUCH. Has it affected you too? Has it resulted in you being treated unfairly by the all-black power structure in this country? Has it resulted in you not getting a job from the Fortune 500 companies, all of which are run by, naturally, the most powerful people -- black people? Has it resulted in you being scorned when speaking your mind, since all the well-known black pundits and mediacrats will shush you? Perhaps if white people weren't a minority, and had some share of power in this country, and had no history of being enslaved, we would rise up and shake off the yoke of all this black oppression like dew. But since we have no power as white people, we will just have to accept this awful double-standard when it comes to calling white people names. I am with you, brother, in the struggle against all this. It is SO UNFAIR.
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Perfect description of the effects of racism, Dn. Happens to whatever out group the power structure chooses to look down on. In the past, it has been certain white ethnic groups. Can happen to any person of color. And it also applies if the power structure is non-white, as happens in some areas. Racism is based on power.
There is another horse in the race though, that is not necessarily based on power. It has to do with stereotyping and condemning people of a different group but having no power to impact that group. What is the name of this beast?
Bigotry or prejudice.Quote:
There is another horse in the race though, that is not necessarily based on power. It has to do with stereotyping and condemning people of a different group but having no power to impact that group. What is the name of this beast?