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Originally posted by flyingfish
reply to post by cluckerspud
Hey Cluck can I join your religion?
Originally posted by Heike
If I commit a violent act against a person of another race because they are of that race, or materially discriminate against a person based on race (such as not giving them a job, loan, apartment, etc.) then I am a racist.
but if I get mad at a black person for being a jerk I'm a racist?
All I'm saying is that I SHOULD be able to "judge" every person on their own merits regardless of race
Originally posted by The Scarecrow If he's a jerk then anyone with common sense could understand why you'd get mad at him.
Originally posted by AKINOFTHEFIRSSTARS
Its is because black pride consist of everyone being free and enlightened. It deals with the circle of life, and how we (all living things) are connected. White pride deals with supremacy and making others inferior. It deals with capturing innocent people and throwing them into wells, or making people bite curbs.
Originally posted by Heike
Therefore, I find myself NOT responding appropriately to non-white people who act badly because I'm afraid that someone will play the race card and make ME seem to be the jerk.
Originally posted by Heike
reply to post by The Scarecrow
Am I afraid of a group of young black men who look like they might be gang members? Heck, yeah!
Am I afraid of a group of young white men who look like they might be gang members (or street toughs, etc.) You bet!
Am I afraid of a group of young Mexican men loitering on a street corner and looking tough or gang like? Yes again!
Originally posted by Heike
Jewish people who dislike Germans because they believe that we think we are a superior race who still harbor secret desires to exterminate them may be prejudiced (and certainly irrational), but they are not racists.
Originally posted by Heike
I'm inclined to be wary of (afraid of, if you like) a certain type of black person, but it's only common sense and experience
Originally posted by MilitieTempliSalmo
Originally posted by redled
I reckon it's because white man made the gun, got immense power and wealth through it and had to morally justify it. Fortunately the bible was at hand and Kane of the Abel fame was a baddie and was made black for it (I'm sure this was really biblical politics for some war or other) and White man said, yup that will do and set out to associate black with anything convenient. Dunno, was White Man racist before the gun??
If a cannon can be considered a gun, the chinese were the first to introduce it in the battlefield.
Akin,
What "secrets" of the moon by using "musical instruments". I'm talking about science not religious or supersticious mumbojumbo. You talk about rituals while I talk about copernicus or galileo... I talk about telescopes and sextants and you answer with "musical instruments"? What black tribe used mathemathics before? Still... if they were so advanced why they could barely engineer their own huts? Lets look at the romans for instanc... Public sewers, health care, aquaducts, hell they didnt actually NEED the freakin 0 to be more advanced in anything... so after they added a number with no value, well, great I guess... so much for engineering a hut with sticks and musical instruments and tribal dances while the rest of the world was sailing across the oceans, discovering uncharted territory - they never left their place...
The evolution rate is not the same.
[edit on 7-12-2008 by MilitieTempliSalmo]
Originally posted by Heike
In other words, if a "person of color" is being really obnoxious or rude, I try to ignore it instead of responding as I would if a white person were acting the same way. That's "reverse discrimination," and as a white person I feel forced into it sometimes because the consequences of being labeled a racist (particularly where I work) can be very unpleasant.
Originally posted by blupblup
reply to post by Stormdancer777
We do, but George bush is off soon, so we need somebody else now