Wait are people seriously arguing there isn't race discrimination in our justice system?
Wait are people seriously arguing there isn't race discrimination in our justice system?
I think we are moving away from that quite rapidly. There are more and more non-whites in places of power, and the best example to be given is Obama. But the mentality regarding racism and the fact that having something against whites is acceptable both because their past and the fact that there's so few who find it offensive pretty much remains the same.
Reading some of these responses makes you feel bad for not being white
My point exactly. Being regarded as racist just because you're white and at some point in history white people thought themselves as above all other races is an act of racism in itself. People living today are in no way responsable for what happened centuries ago. Believing otherwise and hating certain individuals just because they share the same race with someone that did something wrong in a rather distant past is racism, and if you don't agree with racism you should at least be fair about it.
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System? What system? I was talking about the world in general, not a certain part of the world.
So why did white people get a derogatory name while those black slave traders who sold ALL those slaves for profit aren't called anything? Can we call those natively Ethiopian and Nigerian crackers too or are they mysteriously bunched up with all the other "Niggahs" because they are black and the word Niggah should remind them of all the bad things white people did to them, like showering them in wealth as they sold their brothers and sisters?
I bet my ancestors were once involuntary service people as well, or as you call it slaves. Should I also call myself Niggah to remind myself of the difficult past my ancestors had because of their social status even though I'm white?
I mean it wouldn't be offensive if I called a natively Nigerian person a cracker, right? It's the truth after all and they've done this entire slave business much longer than the white man(still doing it today).
I never said there wasn't. The problem is this "It's racism!" conclusion is being jumped at waaaay too fast, without checking any logical explanation that might come before it. That's the problem. You're not being better than the ones being genuinely racist, you're just at the other spectrum of it. You're the same.
If you can explain racial disparity in sentencing and prison population without using racism I'd love to hear it.
Yeah, I bet some of them look at Africa now and say "Dayum, those centuries of slavery my ancestors endured didn't turn so bad after all".
Don't get me wrong, slavery is downright unacceptable, but after regaining their freedom they didn't quite return to their homelands either. Almost akin to the Stockolm Syndrome.
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No, I was talking in general, about people who do that.
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I already did.
Stockholm syndrome? This is that most stupid thing I have read today.
Hey we kidnapped these people destroyed their culture for HUNDREDS OF YEARS, and took over their home continent to boot. Exactly what country did they have to return to?! There wasn't one, what culture what home was there in Africa? There wasn't one, it was taken. Holy shit....
Africa isn't some giant homogenous continent on top of that the slave trade ruined all identify blacks from those lines had.
No you really didn't.I already did.
This is some really delicious subtle racism.Don't get me wrong, slavery is downright unacceptable, but after regaining their freedom they didn't quite return to their homelands either. Almost akin to the Stockolm Syndrome.
You're kidding, right? Look upon Africa and see that despite 2000 years of technological evolution there are many people there who still retain their cultural ways, up till this day. Ways that are older than year 0. If what you say is true, then that should not have been possible.
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Nah dude, you see they're black so they can just show up in Africa and fit right into the nearest tribe.It's almost as though they were born in America where they have lived there for generations!
Uh huh... what you're saying is akin to this:
Okay so we kidnapped most of the french population and took over their country for the past 500 years, France is absolutely nothing how it was and the culture that was once there is now destroyed.
Okay French slavery is over why won't they just go back to France. Oh right... we kind of destroyed that country, oh well they can like go to Germany or Ireland right? It's all the same...
You've made assertions, that's for sure.