Stop Racism Video

dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
edited June 2013 in A Moving Train
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  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    I think it is deplorable ......
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    aerial wrote:
    I think it is deplorable ......

    Why is it deplorable?
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,388
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,388
    aerial wrote:
    I think it is deplorable ......

    Yes, racism is deplorable! (That is what you meant, I hope.)
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • 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 Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,388
    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:
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,933
    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 Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,388
    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?"
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,933
    brianlux 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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