You know if you even tried to read up about why the player took offense to being called an ape maybe this post would not come off as stinking of ignorance. Ape and monkey have long since been negative words to describe black people so yes some black people do take offense at being called them. As for people being to sensitive that is not the case if you look at the time before the civil rights movement early 1960s black people could not even look white people in the eyes or even use the same facilities as whites. So it is not that black people are more sensitive now, it is that they can voice their unhappiness now without fear of being beat, raped, or killed.
As for letting the past go think of it this way most people on here are only one or two generations away from Jim Crow south and A Time to Kill. My parents were products of Jim Crow south, sit ins, marches, riding in the back of the bus and it colored how they raised me. So yes, I will find being called an ape or monkey offensive because I was taught that it is an offensive term that has, can, and will be used to describe me in a negative light. It is not that I am sensitive but that I find it disrespectful, like calling a gay person fag or a Mexican wetback.
Current Demographics
79% European White
12% African American
15% Latino/Spanish Origins
With a majority of the country being white, no wonder they believe that racism has been overplayed. Its the 12 -15% we dont see that defines if our country is predominantly racist or not.
There is Racism, that is a fact. It is just not as omni-present since we generally are not living in those neighborhoods that are racially diverse. That is hidden from us, from the general population.
Racism exists, will always exist...so will yummy exchanges of bodily fluids between two racially different peoples, and with the world growing ever smaller, well...you get the picture.
Saw this thread and thought about a story I'd read earlier about Oprah Winfrey. She (apparently) claimed she had recently been a victim of racism because a store assistant in Switzerland told her a handbag was too expensive for her. I mean... really? This is racism? The assistant was just a snob, not a racist.
I think the racism card gets overplayed alot but then when you are used to being discriminated against it's easy to see it everywhere when perhaps it doesnt exist. I kinda wish we could all just take the piss out of each other and ourselves and not have to worry about the PC brigade being offended. So yes, people are too sensitive but it's not just limited to racism.
When you see someone in a thread making the same canned responses over and over, click their name, click view forum posts, and see if they are a troll. Then don't feed them."Gamer" is not a bad word. I identify as a gamer. When calling out those who persecute and harass, the word you're looking for is "asshole." @_DonAdams
Well the cool thing is that store assistants in switzerland judge your wealth and education probably by the choice of your clothes and not by the color of you skin
Either he was a racists or her fashion sense is questionable.
Btw -Asian American population, comprising 13.4 million in 2008, or 4.4%
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Because since the Romantisization of the "Others" as being animalistic, lustfull, and generally placed in negative conotations, Imperialistic ideals of self defined being white as superior, ordered, etc.
This defined us (whiteys) according to what the "others" were, and gave permission to European whites to do whatsoever to other racially distinct populations.
A wound from our imperialistic ancestors, but a wound present in nearly every culture on the planet.
Everyone is racist.
The only difference is, is that the "white" race has instigated the industrial revolution, and propelled globalization. We were there at the right place ...at the right time...to be racist assholes.
American immigrant here. From my perspective, I'm just baffled they still think it's about skin color.
Listen, I don't care who you are. If you sing your amatuer rap songs in public, show your boxers out in public, yelling and cursing in between every word you use, and refuse to give up your seat to an old lady in the subway, along with many other people I won't like you. If you're African American, wear normal clothing, support your family if you got one, are hard working, I'll like you. Seriously, it's not that hard to understand.
I am opposed to the discrimnation based on skin color. But if you act like an idiot, don't be surprised if people prejudge that you're an idiot. It's people like that who claim discrimination for being a fool is the same as being racist that make me call out "boy who cried wolf" every time it happens now. I'm pretty jaded at this point and I've pretty much lost sympathy.
Last edited by NewOrleansTrolley; 2013-08-09 at 11:35 PM.
Drama bitch
Sorry taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra..._and_ethnicity.