Noose found at UC San Diego

dback816 · Feb 28, 2010

pouhe said:

To quote Patrice O'Neal, this is my favorite "white trick." Feigning support or faith in hypothetical minority advancement so one can attack the means by which we would practically achieve it.

I didn't say whites would take charge regardless of the number. But outside of professional sports rosters (since whites actually run the businesses), or a hippity-hop label, or maybe city government in a majority black community, there aren't a lot of majority-black organizations people non-blacks want to be part of.
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Your hypothesis is that stereotypes and broad generalizations should be continued, and even used as the basis of building our society?

Great.

And "talent and dedication," whatever the holy hell that is, generally gives way to confidence and assertiveness (seen in blacks as attitude) and sociability (black laziness), which is easier to pull off if you're part of the majority. So I still stand by my hypothesis.
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What?

I didn't mention American Jews because they are overwhemingly white, and richer (and therefore indirectly more empowered) on average than every other ethnic group. Asians are too assimilated and Native Americans are too few to be considered threats or burdens to white america. Blacks and Hispanics are the only minority groups we've fought wars, re-aligned our political parties, and completely re-distributed population and resources over (suburbs).
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Asians are too assimilated...huh? So an Asian goes to college, gets a office job and maybe votes Democrat...that counts as assimilation but if a black person does the same then it's not a..ssi..mi..la..tion? Do you have some exotic idea like all Asians are inherently less American than others to begin with?

Major said:

The history of this country suggests that minority groups (whether race or otherwise) tend to have to organize and get attention to get equal rights and equal treatment, or otherwise have their issues addressed. It shouldn't be surprising because it's human nature for people to focus on things that most directly affect them. So the majority (whether white or some other majority group in a specific situation) are going to focus on the things most relevant to them - which generally is not the rights or needs of some other group.
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Except many of those needs are the same across all races.

Just look at the student union stuff as example. What separates two normal(that means not grossly racist and stupid unlike the ones in the original post) student unions of different races so much that they need to be separate? Holiday planning? And?

Refman · Feb 28, 2010

bullardfan said:

many minorities struggle to find an identity. Michael Jackson is an extreme example but if he is still an example.
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It has been stated by people close to the Jackson family that Michael did not struggle with his race as much as he did with his feelings regarding his father.

I saw a documentary about this on A&E. Michael apparently started having plastic surgery etc, because he did not want to see his father when he looked in the mirror. Apparently his father was abusive when Michael was a child.

As for Michael's skin, it has been stated a million times over that Michael developed a skin disorder that caused his skin to lose pigment.

"According to J. Randy Taraborrelli's biography, in 1986, Jackson was diagnosed with vitiligo and lupus; the vitiligo partially lightened his skin, and the lupus was in remission; both illnesses made him sensitive to sunlight, which could have caused his lupus condition to recur.[1] To treat these conditions, Jackson used Solaquin, Tretinoin and Benoquin. He also had hydroxychloroquine injected directly into his scalp regularly.[1] The treatments he used for his condition further lightened his skin tone, and with the application of pancake makeup to even out his skin tone, he could appear very pale.[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michae...#Vitiligo_and_lupus.2C_treatments_and_effects

You might want to do a quick fact check before posting examples and attributing thoughts and opinions to deceased celebrities for which there is no evidence that they held such thoughts or opinions.

VanityHalfBlack · Mar 3, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_black_history_mock_party

LOS ANGELES – A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found on campus and students in Los Angeles and Irvine demonstrated against intolerance. "What kind of campus promotes an environment that allows people to think it's acceptable to target people for their ethnicity, gender or sexuality?" said Corey Matthews, one of about 200 mostly minority UCLA students who held a lunchtime rally. "It's something about the tone of the environment that allows this." At UC Irvine, about 250 people gathered for a "student solidarity speakout" to condemn the recent spate of racist incidents at UC San Diego that targeted black students and another incident last month at UC Davis, which targeted a Jewish student with a swastika carved on her door, said Marya Bangee, an event organizer. The protests came on the same day UC San Diego announced the discovery of a white pillowcase fashioned into a KKK-style hood — the third racist incident around the campus in as many weeks — and a day after UC Santa Cruz officials found an image of a noose scribbled on the inside of a bathroom door. Officials found the hood, which bore a hand-drawn circle and cross, on a statue of children's book author Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, outside the main campus library late Monday. A rose had been inserted between the statue's fingers.

Detectives were analyzing the pillowcase for fingerprints and DNA evidence, a university statement said. UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox vowed to punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law. "We will not tolerate these despicable actions," she said in the statement. The hood came on the heels two other UC San Diego incidents: a February off-campus, student-organized "Compton Cookout" party that mocked Black History Month with ghetto stereotypes; and a noose found hanging from a library bookshelf last week. UC San Diego campus police said they had completed their investigation into the noose incident and turned their results over to the city attorney on Tuesday for possible hate crime charges. One of the students responsible for the noose apologized to the university community in an anonymous letter published Monday in the campus newspaper. She said the noose was formed while she and friends were playing around with a piece of rope and had no meaning as a lynching symbol. The student said she is not black, but is a minority.

The incident also is under investigation by law enforcement agencies, campus spokeswoman Judy Piercey said. Although UCLA students said no racial incidents had occurred recently on their campus, in 2007, a fraternity held a "Tijuana Sunrise" party that mocked Mexican-Americans with stereotyped images, they said. The incidents are disturbing and most likely the work of "outliers" using offensive and outrageous behavior to gain notoriety, said Brian Levin, director of California State University's Center for Study of Hate and Extremism in San Bernardino. He said surveys show young people are less prejudiced than ever, but "these things touch a nerve, and these folks know it." UCLA demonstrators called on administrators to institute a required ethnic studies course that would teach students about other cultures. "It would be a very strong and powerful statement for diversity," said Kent Wong, a speaker at the rally and director of UCLA's Center for Labor Research and Education. At UC San Diego, officials were already moving to create a more tolerant environment after meeting with black student leaders, Piercey said. Initiatives include recruiting more minority faculty, instituting a mentoring program, creating an African American Resource Center, and ensuring funding for the diversity office, Piercey said.
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Tenchi · Mar 3, 2010

bullardfan said:

yes, people are racist and need to be called out for it. doing nothing will just tell people that it's okay to be racist. and being openly racist is just appalling.

and to those who talk about "white parties" or "white trash parties". the white parties don't really count now do they? because who is the majority in this country? esp. comparing a party racist against blacks to an office party where you just dress up like normal office workers.

to all those thinking this isn't a big deal. this really is a case of, "you wouldn't understand" because you really wouldnt unless you lived as a minority somewhere else. e.g. white people in hawaii africa or asia.

universities are breeding grounds for racial segregation. and if there were any asians involved in this (which im sure there were) then they need to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror. most of them are just trying to become "white". "he aint talkin about me" means that you're just being discriminated against atm. google "glass ceiling" or check racial profiling for asians to top universities.
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You're pretty sure there were asians involved in this? Where did it say in the article? Do you go to UCLA? Universities are breeding grounds for racial segregation?

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