Originally posted by CityIndian
reply to post by phoebeflakes
What you don't understand is blacks have gone through years of physical, economic, abuse. Being racist to a black person has years of this abuse
associated with it, a history of slavery and lynch mobs etc. Racism goes very deep for them, and any sign of racism, however slight, is going to
bring all that history into sharp focus.
Now look at you, whitey, you come from the privileged race that CREATED the situation that made blacks slaves, and put them in a situation of poverty
and oppression? Your race created the racism.
So if a black calls you whitey, or whatever, and upsets you then I have no sympathy. You want things to be equal when it's turned on you, but what
happened to equality when it came to all the other stuff blacks have had to go through?
(btw I'm a whitey before you assume otherwise)
[edit on 18-4-2009 by CityIndian]
Interesting observations, yet with no true validity in my opinion.
As an acknowledged 'whitey'(your term) isnt your first paragraph a bit presumptious? Or is it conditioned and socially acceptable white collective
guilt speaking? "Goes very deep for them"..I see. Thank you, white person, for speaking for an entire race.
And your second paragraph? "whitey CREATED the situation"...
Contributed greatly to it, no doubt, but no more so than tribal leaders casting off the undesirables on the west African shores hundreds of years
ago.
And your third paragraph is merely indicative of social pandering.
(btw, Im a black American before you assume otherwise.)
Anyway, on topic, yes, we are all equally racist.
