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I agree with most if not all of this. It is sadly true. It is near impossible for a white person to be able to pull the racism card.
There's a real life example for you.
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1) Anyone can be racist, obviously.
2) The way race lines fell in this country is the way they fell. Deal with it. African Americans can celebrate their cultural heritage with respect to their race because white people once defined them that way, and that's just how history went. If it had been the other way around, it would have been the other way around.Comment
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What I don't get is why they call it racist are we not the Human Race? Black brown white yellow red were are all humansOriginally posted by KgZComment
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I think it's because being white is the most widely accepted... how do I put this... I'll just say 'color'. Anyway, it's the most widely accepted color because white people were the ones to have black people as their slaves. Then Martin Luther King Jr. came along as a black rights activist and it was as if every white man had just received a good kick in the ass.
They called it racist back then because white people were offensive towards black people, and it has pretty much carried on into our everyday culture of today. That is, minus the slavery and strict rules and whatnot.
Meanwhile the black people back then didn't call white people anything like that to their face (most obviously in fear of what might happen), and this fear probably prevented them from doing a lot of things (except Rosa Parks, chain reaction, MLK Jr., etc.). There is a MLK Jr. day because a large number of white people probably realized, 'holy ****, what the hell am I doing?' (others could care less), and it was the start of a huge change in the way society thought of black people.
Of course that whole attitude towards each other is still brimming at the surface, and it's like a societal paradigm that racial slurs towards blacks are highly offensive while racial slurs towards whites seem to be merely words.
Oh, as well, I think it's because whites have held this status for a long time while blacks have worked their way towards being equal. They got through the obstacle of slavery, and so it seems like much more of an achievement for a black person than it is a white person.
My opinion, watch me get flamed for something, etc.Comment
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Also, white is the majority in America. "White" . . . 75-80 % of the US is composed of whites if I remember correctly. Whenever a minority is attacked, it is perceived that everyone who is white is attacking a smaller more "helpless" group of people, which appears to be a horrible crime in people's minds when paired against a racial slur directed from a rather small group with seemingly less power toward a larger chunk of the population that is of European descent. As a result, minorities unfortunately have a much greater ability to call hate crimes and racism against them than the majority can.Last edited by ledwix; 05-16-2007, 11:53 PM.Comment
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White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2005 66.9%
According to Census '05 anyway.
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One question: if someone is made fun of for having extremely white skin (way whiter than most people), should that be considered racist?
Originally posted by derblubComment
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Anything that is negative against a person's skin, religion, etc. Its considered racist.Comment
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Now isn't that racist?..
In America there are some blacks from Africa,Jamaica,Nigeria..
But most were probably born in America and have probably never been to Africa...yet if they are black and in america they are automatically referred as an "African American"
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It's more stereotypical than racist. Personally, I hate the term for the exact reason that not all black people are from Africa or consider themselves of African descent. That's like callin a Guatemalan Mexican.
I see no problem with the term "black". I'm white, you're black, big deal. If you're not proud of who you are it's not my problem.
--Guido
Originally posted by GrandiagodComment
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Whats funny is that legally, there are no actual definitions of these terms in a way that is objective.
I can say that I'm black (I'm blatantly not, my family line traces immediately and directly to england and italy) but on no form or application that asks me to define my race can anyone dispute me if I check off every single box.
You are, in a very real sense, whatever you personally want to identify yourself as. In countries like the US and Canada with so much immigration, you completely lose the ability to reasonable define what 'race' is what, except purely by nationality.Comment
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