It is not about defending "white" people. It is about opposing racism, which is causing great strife and harm to our country and our society. It is time to stop this crap.
I don't think so. Kids don't judge color or race. They are taught it. The only biological evolution things I know of that you might want to consider "racists" is they we 'like' symmetry vs non-symmetry. People with symmetric facial balance. But I'm quite sure that feature or not have that feature doesn't belong to any race.
People with very dark brown skin pigmentation are frequently referred to as "black". They are not a different race, as there is only one race, the human race. And as far as complaining about privileges, I have not done that, so I am not sure why you are directing that comment to me.
"Kids don't judge color or race" citations needed for that one. Categorizing and stereotyping based on features, color, height etc. is not taught, it comes natural to a lot of people
Good post. I remember as a child having to do a report on someone famous for elementary school that we had to dress up as. I dressed up in a baseball uniform and did my report on Willie Mays. Someone saw me later and said, "why don't you do a report on a white person?" I remember very vividly thinking that it had never occurred to me to consider that when making my selection. Your post brought that experience back to mind for me.
Your response to bigtexxx affirmed his premise that "blacks" are getting a pass from society for being racist. Of course, it was well understood by you what he meant. Similarly, when a "black" man complains about privileges "white" men get in society, it should similarly be understood what is meant there. We don't need to pretend these statements are nonsensical because "race doesn't exist".
Sorry mojo bro - somebody has been there and done that with this schtick a lot better than you can ever hope to:
OK, being sensitive to differences of race may be taught. You could be right. But we do appear to have a need to group people into "us" vs "them" categories, which often manifests itself as racism, but it could be along other lines as well. I suspect there is an evolutionary driver for this tendency.
Actually, what I said that they are only being given a pass by people who also are racists. I did not say (or mean) they had to be racists of any particular skin color, as any person who gave such conduct a pass, even if just in their minds, would be a racist. So, your understanding is obviously wrong.
Sounds like the American Freedom Party is undergoing a resurgence and making their subtle move to capture the hearts and minds of America's disenfranchised whites.
So you simply meant that only the racists give racist conduct a pass. Very well, nothing disagreeable there. Sorry for the misunderstanding. What is your take on the claim that "Blacks are more racist than whites"? A nonsensical statement?
These are the types of generalizations that I consider more dangerous than a "race motivated mob". You types ignore any sort of humanity that goes along with such a verdict, then you effectively quarantine and illuminate the worst of the black opinion and use it as the counter platform to support your racial analytics. It's so not fair. Those mobs didn't represent the majority of black America, not all cops are bad, not all white people are bad. Why is it that when discussions come up about race only the extreme examples of African American behavior are referenced? To minimally defend a racial position as a black man makes me automatically a racist, apparently. To disagree with a white person about the aforementioned verdicts makes me somehow "part of the problem". Just because I don't agree with you does not make you a racist. Just because you don't agree with me shouldn't make me one either.
Black people are still getting lynched and or murdered by white folks in this country. So it has been happening in your lifetime... You just haven't been paying attention. Now of course everyone hates everyone and that's just how it is. But in this country it has been mainly white people who have acted on their hate with violence.
If you look back at the post I was responding to, the poster was making assertions about "white" lynch mobs which are factually untrue. Certainly I cannot recall having heard of a lynch mob led by "white" people during my lifetime. I was not trying to characterize all "black" people by this discussion. In was just responding to a rather extreme assertion by the previous poster. It was not a response that was intended to apply any more broadly than the specific topic we were discussing.
It certainly has not been publicized very effectively, if it has happened. Which is not what one would expect, especially in light of the massive publicity given to incidents like the George Zimmerman trial or Darren Wilson investigation. It certainly appears that our media has a lot of interest in this type of story. So you say that there has been an actual lynching of a black person by a white mob over say, the last 50 years, and the media chose not to report it? Really?
Understood, but the term "lynch mob" is literally synonomous with the behavior of white people, whether it was in your lifetime or not. You can't conviently ignore history when it doesn't support your argument. Thanks for responding.
