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Stop Racism Video

dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
edited June 2013 in A Moving Train
thats awesome!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxJgZwtJHg8
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  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    I think it is deplorable ......
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    aerial wrote:
    I think it is deplorable ......

    Why is it deplorable?
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,055
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    thats awesome!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxJgZwtJHg8

    :clap: :thumbup:
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,055
    aerial wrote:
    I think it is deplorable ......

    Yes, racism is deplorable! (That is what you meant, I hope.)
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    brianlux wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    I think it is deplorable ......

    Yes, racism is deplorable! (That is what you meant, I hope.)

    oh ... that makes sense ... my brains still a sleep on this sunday.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

    "Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,055
    lukin2006 wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    I think it is deplorable ......

    Yes, racism is deplorable! (That is what you meant, I hope.)

    oh ... that makes sense ... my brains still a sleep on this sunday.

    It does make sense... but only if that is what the comment was intended to mean. ;)

    As for brains being asleep on Sunday morning- I get it! Fog city in the brain, bit of a heat wave going on outside. :lol:
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,904
    Good message, but...

    Does this kind of blatant racism running so rampant that we need to send a PSA out to the general public?

    It'd me more poignant if they could apply it to something more modern day and to a type of scenario that people would actually encounter.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,055
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Good message, but...

    Does this kind of blatant racism running so rampant that we need to send a PSA out to the general public?

    It'd me more poignant if they could apply it to something more modern day and to a type of scenario that people would actually encounter.

    I wish I could say this kind of scenario is, indeed, unheard of but it wasn't that many years ago that I supervised shipping and receiving in a college bookstore and one of the student employees came to me and said he wanted me to receive a shipment of books because he didn't want to do it.

    I said, "Why? That's what you're here for."

    He replied, "Because he's this big black guy". :roll:

    I thought about making him do the job but instead had him watch while I interacted with the guy in a friendly manner and later told him, "J., he's just a guy! What's the big deal?"
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,904
    brianlux wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    Good message, but...

    Does this kind of blatant racism running so rampant that we need to send a PSA out to the general public?

    It'd me more poignant if they could apply it to something more modern day and to a type of scenario that people would actually encounter.

    I wish I could say this kind of scenario is, indeed, unheard of but it wasn't that many years ago that I supervised shipping and receiving in a college bookstore and one of the student employees came to me and said he wanted me to receive a shipment of books because he didn't want to do it.

    I said, "Why? That's what you're here for."

    He replied, "Because he's this big black guy". :roll:

    I thought about making him do the job but instead had him watch while I interacted with the guy in a friendly manner and later told him, "J., he's just a guy! What's the big deal?"

    I agree that it's not unheard of. I'm sure everyone here has a story where they've come across something every so-and-so years. I just think the video is more so people can pat themselves on the back for not being a blatant racist and no real impact is drawn on the viewer where they can question themselves in scenarios they may actually come across in life.

    I think something along the lines of this video poses a better question on what it is to be judgmental and to partake in racial profiling:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3iB47nQ6E&
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