Thoughts on racism

Originally Posted by Wesker

As to you're "a bit telling" comment...I guess you're insinuating that I'm racist. well, honestly I am..a bit. Most people are to some degree. I am very prejudiced against the thug culture of many inner city blacks, but I', equally appalled by the meth monkey trailer trash culture of many whites..so is that racism..or is it just a natural aversion to certain people.

I think Christopher Kincade said it best, "I'm not racist. I just don't like punks. PUNKS." I don't like the thug/gangsta culture that some African Americans embrace, but that doesn't mean I'm racist. Heck, some of the sweetest people I've met on campus were very dark-skinned people from Sudan and the Carribbean Islands. I also dispise the trailer trash culture of a bunch of hillbillies who make meth in their kitchens while slapping their underage pregnant wives for not makin' em dinner. Does this mean I'm racist toward Caucasians?

If it's ok for preppy cheerleaders to hate punk culture and vice versa without being harrassed and/or abused profusely for being "anti-spirited" or "anti-punk" then why is it not ok to dislike a culture that many people think relates to a certain race?

I haven't been able to read all of the posts in this thread, so my thoughts on racism are within the spoil so I won't have to hear about it being addressed already. I apologize if it offends anyone, but I seriously believe that there are more oppressed races than African American or Caucasian Americans and I'm sick and tired of many of the African Americans within my region and college region that think they are more oppressed than anyone else in the world.

Spoiler:

Frankly, I think that racism still exists and that some blacks are about as racist if not more than some whites. I have personally seen African American women play the "race card" in order to stop receiving CSV's b/c they were screaming "OH NO YOU DIDN'T!!!" at 2 a.m. almost every night (if you get 3 or more at my college then you could get suspended on first offense). I have seen African Americans call one another "Ni**er" and then go off on a Caucasian person for calling another Caucasian a "Wi**er". I have seen store clerks keep focus on non-Caucasian people more often than Caucasian people in stores (I was a victim of this along with my Asian buddy). I have even seen Caucasian students say in class, "I want to be a police Sheriff and the president of the KKK when I graduate" and, "dem ni**ers don't know nothin' but how to rap and rape our women."

My problem is mostly with some of the African Americans who believe they are more oppressed (even in current society) than any other race/group of people in existence. A former roommate of mine received a scholarship given only to African American students who excel in their field of study but she looked Caucasian b/c her mother was African American but her father was Caucasian American. However, I also know full-blooded American Indians who were not given scholarships b/c they were not registered to a specific tribe (ex. not just Cherokee, but you had to have papers proving you belong to the Deer Clan of the Cherokee). Why doesn't she have papers? Because her ancestors--like some of mine--hid in the Appalachians during the "Trail of Tears" and were separated from their main tribe...so their tribes are considered to be "extinct", and it's hard to be part of a group that's listed as extinct. My roommate didn't have to have papers to prove her mother was from the Zulu tribe or anything. I once heard an African American in class claim that slavery was worse than what the Jews went through during World War II.

From what I have seen and heard, African Americans (and many Caucasians) are given more benefits than Hispanics, American Indians, and Asian Americans. I believe that racism still exists on both sides and that they are too busy fighting one another to realize that there are other races that have even fewer rights than they do.

Jam it back in, in the dark.