is it black people helping to keep racism alive and well

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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    First off i know real racism exists. but it just seems every little thing no matter how trivial can set off a racial issue with blacks. I know this probably happened but i have never heard of any white people accusing a black person of racism against whites. I have however heard hundreds of stories of white on black. It just seems like the race card is the first thing to pop out of the deck on almost any issue when there are differences of opinion. Whites just seem to keep bowing and agreeing with everything. when rodney king got beaten by police and verdicts were not to their liking they rioted in the streets. pummelled an innocent truck driver like barbarians with bricks and destroyed cities. Is that a good reaction to a problem? no but it sure did scare the white folks into changing things up real quick. I believe till this day that is the reason OJ wasn't found guilty. They were afraid of another riot. A few years ago where i live a skinny 7th grade white kid was beaten by 6 black kids on his way home from school and died from it. not once was it ever even brought up that he was beaten because he was white. it didn't become a national story embedded by non stop coverage into all our brains forever. instead it was forgotten. hell if you bring it up to half the people in my town today not many can even remember it happening. Now switch the story around to 6 white kids beat and kill a 7th grade skinny black kid on his way home from school and fucking al sharpton appears from a puff of smoke like a genie. I do have respect for black people for standing up for themselves and their rights but every issue does not have to be a race issue.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Cosmo wrote:
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    I have never been black in my life... I don't know what it's like to be black... nor do I ever pretend to know.

    It's just like being white, but with a different skin tone.

    Edit: And the possibility of sickle-cell anemia, which has the possible bonus of an immunity to malaria, or the possible downside of dying from it.
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    Ahnimus wrote:
    It's just like being white, but with a different skin tone.

    Edit: And the possibility of sickle-cell anemia, which has the possible bonus of an immunity to malaria, or the possible downside of dying from it.

    do you really think that?

    that being black is the same thing as being white?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    hsewif wrote:
    do you really think that?

    that being black is the same thing as being white?

    Absolutely
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    hsewif wrote:
    do you really think that?

    that being black is the same thing as being white?
    yes of course you'd have to be a racist to think otherwise
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I thought Michael Jackson proved that it doesn't matter what color you are. He proved you can be a complete freak and people will still buy your CDs.
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    Ahnimus wrote:
    When I was a teenager I felt agism all around me. When I went into a convenience store I was followed and watched. Eventually I started ripping them off. I became the stereotype, partially because it's what was expected of me. Part of our solution is forgetting that black or white or hispanic people are a certain way, because they aren't.

    I feel sorry for you... that's pretty lame. you should have taken pride in proving them wrong.

    "my girlfriend accuses me of cheating so I'm going to cheat on her." "they think I'm stealing stuff so I'm going to steal stuff".

    lame.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    If you get down to semantics, yes there are some biological differences. A person so trained can tell the difference between the brain of a man of european descent and the brain of a man of african descent, but essentially they do the same things. All the difference is in perception.
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  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    no, it is not black people that are keeping racism alive...it's liberals. They need us divided to exist.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    hsewif wrote:
    I feel sorry for you... that's pretty lame. you should have taken pride in proving them wrong.

    "my girlfriend accuses me of cheating so I'm going to cheat on her." "they think I'm stealing stuff so I'm going to steal stuff".

    lame.

    Yea, I tried that. I went into a store one day to buy some Mtg cards and the lady gave me back all my money plus the change. I informed her of her mistake and she took it back gladly and gave me the right change. A few days later I was accused of stealing from the same store. That was around the time I gave up.
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Absolutely

    well here in chicago there is a huge difference. The ghetto is 99% black. The only black people in my neighborhood are married to white women and they earn 6 figures a year...yet people mistake them for degenerates. :/
  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    yes of course you'd have to be a racist to think otherwise

    I guess I'm racist. White people in chicago are far better off than most blacks.
  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    hsewif wrote:
    I guess I'm racist. White people in chicago are far better off than most blacks.
    that's a very racist remark indeed.
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    that's a very racist remark indeed.

    how so? Please elaborate because the last thing I want to be labeled is racist.
  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    hsewif wrote:
    how so? Please elaborate because the last thing I want to be labeled is racist.
    you're saying white people are way better off and admitted just simply seeing black folk in town they are looked down upon as degenerates even though they make 6 figures and live in that neighborhood. that's almost the very definition of racism. i don't care if they're covered in shit and have no money at all... they shouldn't be looked down upon simply because of their color.
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    for the record... I don't even like the word racist.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racist

    saying one is superior to the other is wrong.
  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    hsewif wrote:
    for the record... I don't even like the word racist.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racist

    saying one is superior to the other is wrong.
    well if the whites are way better off..doesn't that mean superior
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    you're saying white people are way better off and admitted just simply seeing black folk in town they are looked down upon as degenerates even though they make 6 figures and live in that neighborhood. that's almost the very definition of racism. i don't care if they're covered in shit and have no money at all... they shouldn't be looked down upon simply because of their color.

    I typed what I see around me.... not what I feel. If you're white here, you are better off. The majority of Chicagoans living under the poverty line are black. That's a fact. The majority of people in jail are black...another fact.

    I personally don't look down on anyone but PLENTY of people do. at least in my neighborhood. (and every neighborhood that I've ever lived in).
  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    hsewif wrote:
    I typed what I see around me.... not what I feel. If you're white here, you are better off. The majority of Chicagoans living under the poverty line are black. That's a fact. The majority of people in jail are black...another fact.

    I personally don't look down on anyone but PLENTY of people do. at least in my neighborhood. (and every neighborhood that I've ever lived in).
    ok i get it you're mixing up the racism subject with being rich or poor.
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  • hsewif
    hsewif Posts: 444
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    ok i get it you're mixing up the racism subject with being rich or poor.

    I'm sorry if I offended you in any way.

    If someone said to me... "hey jules, would you like to be black or white?" I would choose white.

    Does that make me racist?

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