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originally posted by: imwilliam
I'm a racist. I can't help it. But I don't like it. And I fight it.
Fighting it isn't always easy, sweeping generalizations seems sort of automatic, sometimes it would be easier to just surrender to them. But they're ugly and stupid, and that helps me to fight.
So I walk to work every morning, you can tell what homes belong to blacks in this area. They're the homes that are poorly kept, the eye sores. Of course they're all rentals, sometimes that doesn't seem significant, but of course it is. And it's a small world, not representative. I know that.
So I remind myself of other walks. I remind myself of walks through neighborhoods in Chicago, black neighborhoods, neighborhoods where most people worked, neighborhoods with edged and watered lawns. Walks in Kentucky, 'white neighborhoods," livestock, pigs even, living in the same dilapidated homes as the people. White people waiting for us to tear their home down so Habitat for Humanity could build them a new one. A New one that wouldn't be used any differently.
Whatever it's about, it's not about color.
I'm old school. If you irritate me, make me mad, I'm going after your race/nationality, whatever is most apparent to me. Italian? I'm going to go after that. Irish? I got loads on you people. Black? Oh yeah, I've got pre loaded insults and stereotypes galore.
Who do you think about? Who helps you squash the ugly?
People like you who acknowledge that everyone is racist to some degree and that you have overcome that by judging a person on the content of their character, which is a much more accurate gauge because name a skin color and therein be assholes, I tells ya!
Ah donno know about you JinMi boy, but I am pure in ma race...D Human race..
originally posted by: imwilliam
a reply to: eletheia
For example, for me, when thoughts I believe to be "ugly" enter my mind, certain faces enter my mind. Maybe for you it's different? Different faces of course, maybe different ways of "catching" yourself is racist thoughts, different ways of self correcting?
Don't sweat it bud. I'm an Islamaphobe because Islam scares me.
originally posted by: imwilliam
a reply to: eletheia
YES, and I agree with all you've said. But what do you and I; as conservatives, do to combat, to compensate for, what you and I, as conservatives, would acknowledge as racism?
Maybe you don't have any issues with this.
I however do, but maybe I'm not representative?
I am 'older' and maybe that matters
I'll be glad to meet with you for that conversation, or anything else, if you pay the airfare mate.