Originally posted by InvisibleHeroes
Tell me, What makes whites racist?
I find that statement racist.
But to answer it.Anyone can be racist.
Skin color is irrelevant.
The color of ones skin is so extremely unimportant it would lead me to believe that racists in general are just plain dumb.
So what makes people in general be racist?I believe its there low iq.
[edit on 20-12-2008 by InvisibleHeroes]
I agree, the logic that whites are racists because they are 65% of the population is in its own way a fallacy. Back when racism was institutionalized I would agree, but that was decades ago.
We do not live on a national level, for we live in states and then counties, and then communities etc. When you look at a state like Texas where the white population is 3rd behind the blacks and Mexicans, can a white person be racist there?
Where we still have racism is on a more individual level with whites that were adults in the 60s and before, but they are literary a dying group with them well in their retirement years.
We also see the same with much of the older black population that still have deep anger festering in them from what they experienced many decades ago.
These two groups are rapidly disappearing and so what we have are new cultures that every decade since the 60s have been much more tolerant with each other. Those older generations have had influence on younger generations for both blacks and whites, but that influence has been less and less with each generation.
Today when I see a racist white person I see an ignorant person who is blaming their inability to have a good life on others and not themselves. Also, when I see a young angry black man the situation is the same in they are blaming others for something that they have only themselves to blame.
Racism from decades ago has become a crutch for many to use today to blame their personal problems on. But what makes a person valuable in the working force? To start you need to be reliable as in an honest day of work for an honest day of pay. You then need to have a skill or education that makes you desirable to employers. You need to foster a professional attitude and appearance, for if you are always antiestablishment why would anyone want to hire you? Also if you want your dress and style to be completely out of the norm for the work you are trying to get you will have a hard time once again. Lastly, you need to want to continually improve your life, and that could mean further education, moving to another state, working long hours to get ahead, all for a better future.
If you are not doing this above you have no one to blame but yourself. I spent 28 years in the military because I could not afford an education as a white male. I saw many minorities getting basically free education at top universities, and I couldn’t afford one semester. Joining the military gave me a great avenue to achieve, and now I’m well educated and highly skilled with a great paying job, but it took me a good chunk of my life to reach this point.
What was interesting is in the Air Force we have people from all walks of life and all colors but we only see each other as Air Force blue. We were all the same because we had the same desires and dreams of a better life as I explain above even though we all came from completely different backgrounds.
With the big issues we see today within the young black and white communities the blame rests with the self destructive cultures that these groups have fostered. So to place blame you need to look no farther than the community, family and the individual.
