Venting: Am I a Racist??

[SoCal LS-L]

Originally Posted by SorelyVeXed

Man, I am truly sorry that you never had a chance to even know your dad. I can't imagine that. Hopefully, those who knew him told you the good stuff, not just the bad. After all, the man is not here to tell his side of the story.

Best of luck to you Chris. Maybe, if we Southern Californians can ever get it together enough to have an SVX event, we'll have a chance to meet each other.
Later.

I appreciate that man, thanks. It did suck at points, especially in the teen years when I needed the most advice on being a man, but the lack of support and finances helped me to become a lot more self-reliant, which I am extremely thankful for. Not the least of which is learning how to work on cars, since all I could afford in highschool was a POS that I learned to fix myself, and that has saved me money many times over since.

It would be nice to get us all hooked up somewhere down here, I think theres enough active southern cal members to arrange a small meet at least. Hopefully if we could plan it out far enough in advance we could all make it.

[ensteele]

Originally Posted by Hondasucks

I understand the deal with African-American, because you can be "black" without being from Africa.

Do you mean generations ago or they themselves are from Africa. Most are not from Africa, but were born here, so are from here.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by immortal_suby

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Louis always has an interesting point of view.

you beat me to it.



i prefer to be called a German/Austrian/Welsh/Irish/Scottish/Cherokee-American.




Noir gets angry and will pull the race card if you don't refer to him as a Donkey-American.

[Zandar]

I think we should have justice once and for all, and put to death every American who owned slaves!

Now that they're dead, you're free to return to your regularly scheduled democracy.

[TomsSVX]

Ok, I did study World History and American history deeply while I was in college and can add a little to this.

1. The term "cracker" was initially brought to be for a couple reasons. Likely the first you already mentioned. The more significantly remembered reason was "whip cracker" meant to denominate the white population by slaves pre-antebellum period. So it is just as much a derogatory term as nigger.

2. I agree that the Irish were exploited just as much if not more than blacks all over the world INCLUDING America. They were beneath blacks on the social structure in early America and in the early 1900's it got worse. Many people forget to teach in their classrooms that American cities were built on the backs of the Irish and Italians.

3. You bring up an interesting point, calling someone a racists if they say "I didn't vote for Obama because he is black." This statement could be persecuted to the HILLS!! But notice no one who said "I voted for Obama because he is black" was ever given a second glance.... Racial preference is just as evil as racial prejudice.

4. I taught African history, most of it was reliant upon the African slave trade to and from the middle east and the Indies. One thing I had to add was the grossly overlooked and under-published information of the African people trading slaves of any race. It was money, no one looked at it from a skin color aspect, just a monetary trade. Later in history lesser developed regions of the world were exploited for their people and resources as slaves because they were easily commandeered and controlled. Africa had lacked on social and technological developments due to social confines of communal beliefs and rituals.

5. Don't feel like you are a racist because someone may think you are. A racists knows deep down that they have an internal disgust and dislike for certain groups of people. If you can honestly tell yourself that you do not posses this than I doubt you really are a racist.

6. Race itself is a social construct. I typically put "race" or any other variation of the word in quotes because it is not REAL. Genetically speaking it has been proven that there is no real difference in DNA between any social constructed racial group from each other. I personally take the stance that we should do our best never to use the word(s) because of this and that continuing its use is detrimental to the abolition of racism.

None of this goes to say that blacks were not mistreated in this country. We know for a fact that they were and some still are today. But if you really wanted equal rights, then you would want to be treated equally, not better than anyone else. Which reparations contradict sharply. The world no matter how bright it may seem is a downright evil place to live. It is and always will be every man/woman for themselves, so do your best to get a leg up or else you will always feel the need to pull a pitty card whether it be based on race or class.

Tom

[LetItSnow]

Originally Posted by LetItSnow

Roots being roots, word is you can't be anybody without being "from" Africa.

Originally Posted by SorelyVeXed

That’s a whole ‘nother story my man.

I s'poze my quote can be construed in two very different fashions.

The one I meant involved "Out of Africa" - the concept that the primordial goo we've all come from was somewhere in said continent.

[TomsSVX]

Originally Posted by LetItSnow

I s'poze my quote can be construed in two very different fashions.

The one I meant involved "Out of Africa" - the concept that the primordial goo we've all come from was somewhere in said continent.

Truth... the human race in its earliest forms spawned from the African continent and moved outwards very slowly...

Tom

[Myxalplyx]

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No need to comment at the moment. Just watching!

[Myxalplyx]

Originally Posted by immortal_suby

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Louis always has an interesting point of view.

Funny stuff!

[sowise]

Ok this kind of goes along with the whole "racist" theme. Everytime I hear someone on the news or radio trying to justify why the right wingers and tea partiers are racist the same comments seem to keep coming up.
That the comment they are racist because they keep saying things like give us our country back.
I think that is one of the most ignorant stupidest reinforcements I have ever heard. That statement has nothing to do with white or black. That statement has to do with giving the government back to the PEOPLE white or black etc. The media and others keep perpetuating this as a racist demand of whites.
Now there is one negative thing to being on the side that disagrees with the current administration and their direction and policies.
Yes there is racism in the world it is all over the world white on white, black on black and white on black and YES Black on white, north vs south east vs west. There are neo nazi groups and KKK is still out and about but they are truly a minority and it sucks that their racist reasons against the president are also considered the same reasons of the people that truly do disagree and truly do want change just not the change this administration is offering.