i am with colbert

not4u

i don't see race or color (lol colbert) BUT Its over its done. Your a person PERIOD. Its about character, its about who your are. Racism exists in those that belive in it. Playing the race card is almost extinct. People are people, racism is over, its done, we are people together, thats it thats fucking all. The past is the past, this generation has moved on. Race don't mean shit with time as it passes. We are fuking humans bottom line. Those that think different ARE stuck in the past and are sad human beings stuck in foolishness. We are Human Beings - thats it, Crackers, niggers, chincs, spics... whatever, we are people, those sterotypes don't mean shit anymore, it comes down to weather or not your a good person. Thats it thats fucking all. We are all the same. Humans.

tara

who was that guy that colbert interviewed? he was the racist one "white people think xyz" first off dude, how the fuck do you know what white people think, second, how is it that ALL white people think/feel a certain way (he quickly caught himself and said "some white people", as though that made it better, it was so forced). and why is it that when someone says that white people think/do something it's always meant as an insult? why is it ok for black people to be racist against white people?

not4u

russel simmons, i saw him interviewd on 'The Hour' defending diamond mining in africa. Well The slaves from way back when were all black and thats been a hard realism to dissolve in people that have had ancestors that were slaves, understandable BUT alot of young people have no thought of that anymore. I can understand the resentment against crackers but this is now, there is no need for racism anymore, there is only need to display people for who they are, despite race and sterotypes people are assholes or peices of human trash despite thier race.

GWB isn't a cracker, he's a piece of shit
Chris Rock isn't a black Comedian, he's a damn good Comedian

- i know im going a bit far (no white comic would do a chris rock routine lol) but he kinda of represents the bridge of humanity, not race

lucylespian

The slave trade was obviously a bad thing that has left a shitload of resentment etc, but it needs to be recognised that it was not just a white thing. The slaves were collected and sold in Africa by black slave traders, Prior to this, slavery had existed in many forms in many cultures for thousands of years. The major slave trade centre of Zanzibar pre-dated European involvement by centuries.
This link is interesting.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter3.shtml

The racism of thinking that only white Americans were responsible for slavery is unjustifed and false.

The cheap hand-woven rugs you buy at a discount centre are too often made by child slave labour in India or PAkistan today. Slave trade in white women still exists in teh same cultures that condoned slave trading in Africa long before the plantation owneres came along.
Slavery is abhorent in all it's forms, not just the familiar ones !!!!

not4u

thanks for that information. You've opened something new for me.

NMyTree

lucylespian wrote:

The slave trade was obviously a bad thing that has left a shitload of resentment etc, but it needs to be recognised that it was not just a white thing. The slaves were collected and sold in Africa by black slave traders, Prior to this, slavery had existed in many forms in many cultures for thousands of years. The major slave trade centre of Zanzibar pre-dated European involvement by centuries.
This link is interesting.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter3.shtml

The racism of thinking that only white Americans were responsible for slavery is unjustifed and false.

The cheap hand-woven rugs you buy at a discount centre are too often made by child slave labour in India or PAkistan today. Slave trade in white women still exists in teh same cultures that condoned slave trading in Africa long before the plantation owneres came along.
Slavery is abhorent in all it's forms, not just the familiar ones !!!!

I've been talking about this this for years, here. People really are not that familiar with true history.

And people jump down my throat calling me a racist when I mention these facts. Unbelievable. Sad.....and funny ....at the same time. But mostly sad.

rebornFixer

lucylespian wrote:

The slave trade was obviously a bad thing that has left a shitload of resentment etc, but it needs to be recognised that it was not just a white thing. The slaves were collected and sold in Africa by black slave traders, Prior to this, slavery had existed in many forms in many cultures for thousands of years. The major slave trade centre of Zanzibar pre-dated European involvement by centuries.
This link is interesting.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter3.shtml

The racism of thinking that only white Americans were responsible for slavery is unjustifed and false.

The cheap hand-woven rugs you buy at a discount centre are too often made by child slave labour in India or PAkistan today. Slave trade in white women still exists in teh same cultures that condoned slave trading in Africa long before the plantation owneres came along.
Slavery is abhorent in all it's forms, not just the familiar ones !!!!

VERY good post.

Abuskedti

racism is not close to over, nor is it in the imagination of silly people.

rebornFixer

Abuskedti wrote:

racism is not close to over, nor is it in the imagination of silly people.

Agreed.