Video on race responsibility in America

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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    Thanks for checking it out, Callen. :)
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    edited April 2015
    Thought about this bit more and upon reflection if I would of seen this guy on the street and heard him talk would of stereotyped him. Preconceived and UNFAIR.
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    I know! That's why I posted it, not only for the message but for how we see each other and classify each other, without a second thought. It's too bad that this video and thread doesn't get more replies...
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    edited April 2015
    Makes people uncomfortable. There are so many, I feel, instinctual and learned behaviors that support our want to separate and divide.

    Why it's so great for people with differences to meet face to face and share a meal. Why the Cuba embargo was wrong path and why negotiations with Iran is great. The more humans from both sides meeting and working together the better. AND why the profiteers of division don't want it.

    Ahhhhhh. Humans.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    edited April 2015
    callen said:

    Makes people uncomfortable. There are so many, I feel, instinctual and learned behaviors that support our want to separate and divide.

    Why it's so great for people with differences to meet face to face and share a meal. Why the Cuba embargo was wrong path and why negotiations with Iran is great. The more humans from both sides meeting and working together the better. AND why the profiteers of division don't want it.

    Ahhhhhh. Humans.

    I know it makes people uncomfortable, it's an interesting thing about behavior, is that when we get uncomfortable with something, we avoid it. Rather than talk about the real issue in that video, because of who is speaking possibly, or even just the message itself, it doesn't get a chance here. I think the silence says more about the topic, race responsibility in America, more than anything… But honestly, I don't understand the fear around it. The more we talk - and connect - the less fearful anything is. So why is there no conversation? As long as we don't talk, the longer we stay divided.

    As for your second paragraph, right on. We're all connected, but it's voodoo sometimes to say so.

    Thanks for replying btw.
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    It says a lot about AMT if no one can talk about the racial issues in this country like this man did in the video.
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    Bump because we have a problem with race in the U.S.
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Spoke to black coworker and she's scared due to having a teenage son going to college and he and friends being in car driving through central tx. The local cops in small towns, white republican Obama haters. Got to suck.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Here is an excellent outspoken article a friend sent me on the silence by and lack of responsibility many whites refuse to take in acknowledging the ongoing suppression of minorities (in this case, blacks) in America. I've seen some progress this way in my life and at one time thought we had made some great strides in ending white supremacy but recent events (Charleston, obviously) indicate to me that we are far from where we could and aught to be. It fairly blows my mind that we haven't made better progress by now.

    http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/06/white-fragility-silence-and-supremacy-why-all-of-your-hands-are-bloody/
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • kce8
    kce8 Posts: 1,636
    Speaking from an outside position telling you what my friends, who currently live in Alabama for work, told me about the or some people in the country. They are from Europe and live there since two years and quickly learned to not discuss political stuff with native people. You better talk stuff like this with other expats. They just didn´t expect it that way.
    They say they were shocked about the ignorance and intolerant way of thinking. My friends say there is no discussion possible at all. And "Obama" is like a cussword there and you just cannot have a little talk without feeling the hate for him. And I speak about people with good jobs in often high positions. I assume they are all white or most of them. Now I realize I didn´t ask about the colour...it just does not matter to me. It seems like no one even gets a chance to change something. Folks just don´t want to change something. They are used to it, thinking they are right and just don´t question their actions and views.
    Anyways my friends say there are big problems and still can´t believe and feel the situation is even worse than the last time they lived there in 1999. Maybe the people did some steps back. They are good people but the political thinking is frightening - this is grown racism, hate and intolerance - it will not change if the gouvernment will not fight that way and really change the system. It´s so sad it could be so much better.
    I´m sure not all of the people there or in the South are like this and I really didn´t want to offend sb., I just say how it looks to foreign people.
    Relating to the videos, I watched them including the second part of Dixon White and "The Dixon Challenge" video. It only got 1000 views! Since April ! ?

    Oh and about Obama, they made him the black president just to show a bandaged president who´s not able to change or do something different or new. You don´t have to be a fan of him to realize this is bringing nothing good for the country.
    The same problems all around the world. And it starts in every family. We are not thinking over our family, we lost feeling empathy and sympathy for others and it make us ignorant and selfish. We are not thinking whats good for us all, we are just thinking whats good for ourself. In every ways.
    I just still don´t get that there are people who think they are better than other coloured people!
    Alll colours included.

    Looks like even on this forum is not much interest in discussing this problems...
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    ^^^ Lots of good comment there, kce, and especially appreciate the perspective you give us from the perspective from other parts of the word (in this case, Europe). We do have some serious race issues in this country that have not been resolved. That it seems to be getting worse is unsettling- to say the least.

    The issue with racism is not just about the south either (although it is worse there). Racism is found everywhere in the U.S., even here in so-called liberal California. I have heard people make racist jokes here, heard people bad mouth Obama in ways that are- though maybe not overtly so- at least subtly racist.

    Yes, it would be encouraging to see these issues discussed more often here.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,315
    The racial divide has finally been crossed. America, we are united finally ....

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    Party On, Dudes!
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    That's too funny.I like it.

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