[quote]beebuddy wrote:
austin_bicep wrote:
Any orginization, school, company, that doesn’t allow/benefit every race is racist. My favorite are scholorships for only black and hispanic studnets. Tell me those aren’t racist. All this financial aid because your black is fucking unfair, and the funniest part is if there was an orginization that only helped white people, it would be completely dissed by the Sharptons and Jackson, and would absolutely be considered racist. Again white people can be racist, but everyone else is just standing up to the white man and in fact are just as racist if not more.
Well you can kiss the days of sharpton & jackson goodbye. And to your last point, white people aren’t hurt by racism the way blacks are. White’s need to wake up to this fact. I don’t care if you’re a white immigrant with no ties to slavery or what. It’s still a fact for our black brothers and sisters that they are made to feel like niggers at some points in their lives. All those generations of government sanctioned mistreatment toward blacks just ended. And the real hillbilly racists are still fighting for the cause! Did you ever stop and think that the last slaves died in the 1950’s? That means some people here and probably everyone here’s parents were old enough to know an actual slave… It’s gonna take time for blacks to really trust society. I hope it’s doesn’t take long though…
If anything good comes from Obama’s election it will he every single little black kid seeing a president on TV that looks like them and knowing that their skin color isn’t holding them back. Obama may be many things I don’t like. But he really is a symbol of hope for black kids IMO. He could do more in eight years as president than I could do as a teacher for 30 years.[/quote]
You are living in a dream world if you don’t think everyone is affected by racism. My dad lost his first career job out of college to affirmative action. His boss actually told him that they were getting a tax break by replacing him with a less qualified minority. Not only is there no legal reprise for that, it’s the law that instigated it and the same goes for school admittance.
I lived in Mississippi the past 3 years in a town that is majority African American. It was unsafe for me to leave some the “designated white” areas. I actually had kids run out in front of me, force me to stop, and yell at me to go back where I came from with my terrified girlfriend in the car. Only to go home to see guys on TV like David Chapel mocking my race.
In that town you would see minorities at all the local hangouts (not saying I have any problem with this, some where my good friends) but there were several places where whites weren’t allowed in.
Does this compare in some way to the hardships of slavery, and the racist widespread of opinions of rednecks everywhere? Probably not. But it is ignorant to think everyone isn’t affected, or that it all goes one way.
My problem With groups like the NAACP is that their end goal should be to no longer be needed. They also use racism to fight racism.
I also don’t think Obama getting to where he is has really proved anything. Race, whether voting for or against him, is still too large an issue. I think that if a minority were to succeed in politics without anyone noticing, it would go a long way to proving something.
