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i'm not looking for anything, what are ya'll looking for? i posted a few pics of some racists and that was it. the deflecting and feelings came from everyone else.
WOW! Do we have a breakthrough?
i'm not looking for anything, what are ya'll looking for? i posted a few pics of some racists and that was it. the deflecting and feelings came from everyone else.
Black vs. white is not the only form of racism that can or does exist. Why are you this stupid?
nothing racist about that. try again.
lol omitting the word oppression
lol thinking rwandan genocide not the result of black racism
lol frost king
why do you keep posting in this stupid thread?
Because you should be made aware of your ignorant stupidity.
I'm not defending their actions, they are morons.... that being said, Trill asked how black people can be racist, and I gave two specific examples (black/Asian racism and the intraracial color line).... how is that deflecting? I answered his question, wouldn't that be the opposite of deflecting?
No, I saw e Lee trying to sell that a few years back.
It's trying to change the definition of racism. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now.
^ this is the response I've been waiting for..and it's the primary difference between blacks and whites...see for the most part we are a peace loving people....we only respond to what's dished out to us. You would never see a black person walking around a Halloween party dressed up as OJ with a white womans head in his hand...and blade on on his hip...it would draw the ire of every one around and no one would think it's funny...it's the very reason I don't participate in Halloween..it's a pretty ty holiday....
that being said I have to admit I was once in cahoots with such degradation...in full disclosure...one year I let my white friends dress me up as a slave for a private halloween party...it was more like a sex party...so in this context it was OK...they put me and another black guy on stage and sold us to the crowd...for like .75 cents each...the white male's pretended to make me do chores around the house...and then they left to another room...that's when the white wives (girls playing the role) came out and started to strip us naked..(remove jean cut shorts) and us as they called us all kinds of s...it was an epic party...I thoroughly enjoyed it...had no problems whipping my out on stage....you can do that when you're blessed...and that's what made it all the more enjoyable...recorded it and all...but those where my wild and young young days...
Just because I haven't been to jail don't mean I ain't real
Blacks just like any can be prejudiced but they cannot be racist...if even they tried it wouldn't mean a dam thing..why? Because they hold no ins utional powers in this country... they don't even own BET anymore...so by default we cannot be racist because we cannot affect anyone's financial freedom..unless we murder them of course but then even that cuts both ways...so there's your answer if you're intelligent enough to comprehend it....if there were no KKK you think we'd have black panthers... no...we're a reactive culture...react to what's dished out to or given to us...if white evil doesn't exist...then evil doesn't exists plain and simple....
e Lee's failed argument in a nuts .
crying over a little paint for halloween... s.
The definition of racism:
Sorry, don't see anything about "ins utional powers" there.... sounds like an excuse to me, tbh....- poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race
- the belief that some races of people are better than others
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
not surprising as 0 sound like 5 to you as well
^snitch crying murder over racism ^ that is rich^
^Racist snitch crying murder over snitching. That is rich.
Trill trolling fools harder than Avante tbh..
Nah, Trill's a good poster, he just had a ty take in this thread, it happens...
A new poll suggests that Americans, including black Americans, tend to think blacks are more racist than whites or Hispanics. I don't think we are. We only sound like it sometimes.
The poll by the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports finds a larger minority of Americans, 37 percent, think most black Americans are racist compared with the 15 percent of the respondents who think most white Americans are racist and the 18 percent who think that about Hispanic-Americans.
I expected the numbers to fall heavily along racial and partisan lines, and they do. For example, 49 percent of conservatives consider most blacks to be racist compared with21 percent of liberals. Considering how many of today's conservatives tend to hear any racial grievance as "playing the race card," I'm not surprised.
What defies the usual stereotypes is the sizable minority of blacks, 31 percent, who agreed with the 38 percent of whites in the poll who think most blacks are racist. That's higher than the 24 percent of blacks (and 10 percent of whites) who think most whites are racist.
That stereotype-shattering result might suggest that we black folks have some work to do in cleaning up our own prejudices. Understood. But what? The poll offers not a clue.
For starters, it doesn't define "racist," even though there is hardly a more abused, misused and overused word in the English language than the R-word.
Two major misunderstandings make a mess of today's race debates. One, our racial at udes are based on our personal experiences and all of our experiences are very different. Two, everybody carries different definitions in their heads of what racism is.
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary lists two definitions. One is "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race." The other is simply "racial prejudice or discrimination."
But there's at least one other definition, widely believed among black folks, that touched off an uproar after filmmaker e Lee expressed it in a July 1991 Playboy magazine interview: "Black people can't be racist, he said. "Racism is an ins ution."
Although "black people can be prejudiced," Lee allowed, we "don't have the power" to enforce the sweeping ins utional racism that perpetuates social, economic and political inequality. Maybe not, I say, but we're moving up.
Lee's argument was easier to make before African-Americans gained as much ins utional power and influence as some of us are beginning to achieve, all the way up to the White House.
As we aspire to full equality, I believe we need to hold ourselves as accountable as we hold Paula Deen, Don Imus, Michael "Kramer" Richards and every other racial gaffe-maker.
But that's not always easy. What we say can be quite culturally different from what other people want to hear.
Remember, for example, the blowback last year after President Barack Obama framed the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in personal terms by saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
"Disgraceful," fumed Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. "We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background." Of course. Obviously the president didn't mean to say otherwise.
But, when even Obama gets slammed for an innocent tribute after all of his years of diligently playing by the rules of today's racial etiquette, it is no wonder so many people think black folks are racist.
Yet, as the poll results hint, it is no secret that the black community has to contend with its own internal racism too. I recall, for example, how one of my son's black high school classmates responded when I asked whether he detected any racism in today's youths. Yes, he said, "The blacks girls get mad when they see you dancing with a white girl." Ah, yes. Race, like sex, is complicated, children.
Considering today's tragic shortage of marriageable black males, I can't help but sympathize with those girls. They didn't create this world. They're probably just imitating us, their elders.
Clarence Page, a member of the Tribune's editorial board, blogs at chicagotribune.com/pagespage.
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