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DomYngBlk -> RE: I am not a racist. (7/13/2010 1:22:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: AsmodaisSin
I would like to agree with Jen on the whole African American terminology. My mother was born in Africa. Northern Rhodesia which is now Zambia. I have more right to label myself as African American, but frankly, that's just too damned much assumption on my part. I'll stick with being called American. How 'bout them apples?
Now, it isn't blacks' fault that their own people sold them to the Americans. It isn't their fault that they were brought here and brutalized for many many many years. It isn't their fault that they were treated like shit. It isn't their fault that they were made to be less than human for a long, long time. It is their fault that they have a militant group of black men running around terrorizing voters, acting like fools, and overall giving themselves a bad name. THAT is why racism is still alive boys and girls. Because people see those guys from the black panthers and freak out. Whatever was ingrained in our white little brains decades ago to see that and be fearful, I don't know what it is, but it's still prevalent today. When a group of people have massive deviance from where they want to go and be, they reprimand them. Instead, a large group, or at least, that's what I see, of the black community, just stand there and go, "Well, I don't know if I agree with them or not, but the white man ain't gonna stop 'em 'cause that would be racist!" The American government is scared shitless it seems, including Bush, Holder, and the entire DOJ, to do anything about that organization or any other. They were bullying voters. If the KKK did that, they'd be arrested and sentenced to hate crimes.
I'm just sick and tired of the double standard. Either you want to be treated equally or you want preferential treatment. Either you get treated equally or you continue to breed racism, discrimination, resentment. Most white people look at institutions like affirmative action and spit in disgust at being passed over by someone because of color of skin. What was once supposed to ease the wounds of discrimination only bred more.
When the oppressors become the oppressed, they begin to resent, hate, and seethe. Eventually, I think they'll get tired enough to fight back. I don't think that that's a good idea.
And just like dear ole mom you probably think Apartheid is something that should be imported here. I've read a lot of fucked up things here...but that one I think gets first prize. Fucked up enough to believe any of your own bullshit?
No, I don't believe that at all. All I'm saying is that maybe people should stop pointing fingers at the "white man" and start looking at themselves to blame. Or rather, not so much blame, but responsibility. The history of this country is gruesome and awful. Between the massive abuses to the then African Americans and to the American Indians, our history is a dark one. I won't deny that. I won't even try because I'd be a fool if I did.
When my father was in high school, he would call one of his best friends nego or nigga. It was acceptable, at least in high school, for white men to call blacks nigga, negro, brother, etc. Nowadays, the term nigger, nigga, negro, etc. is used in a very different way by blacks, but when a white person says it, it's racist. The lines of acceptance are skewed. People/persons of color is taken as offensive by others, and to others, it's racist to call blacks anything other than person/people of color. As a white person, I am constantly in fear of offending someone of a minority group because the terms I use are incorrect or construed as racist when I know in my heart that I am very much NOT racist.
Maybe you think I am because I don't cowtow to what you feel is acceptable. Maybe you think I am because I expect that the rude, disrespectful behavior or an organization that should stand for black empowerment and NOT racism, should be held responsible. I'll have to hunt down those links I posted on the other thread if need be. Maybe you think I am simply because I am white and I have to be racist because I am white. I don't know what to tell you.
I dont think anything about you. I don't care one way or another you have to live with who you are and what your think. If you don't believe all of it why did you say any of it? What are you really saying?
All I am trying to point out to you is words matter. You know they matter, boijen knows they matter. You can holler all you want to that they are just words. Bullshit. Words cut just as much as knives do. There are plenty of women who are abused simply with the use of words by a man. If they matter that much don't you think we should watch how we use them?
You can tell me that things are equal all you want. Two facts. The Unemployment rate for Black/Lation men are 3x what it is for White men. There are a hell of a lot more men in incarceration with brown and black skin than white.......If you can prove to me that there is no preference or racial choice in those numbers then I will listen. But, we both know there is racial preference to those numbers...
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