JimBowie1958
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These are six people I have known in my life who seem to represent a set of patterns that represent many arch-types of racist.
1. The Raised Racist; knew this guy back in the 60's who was raised in a family with strong ties to the KKK, as in I think all his parents and grandparents were in the KKK. The guy had no chance any more than a Baptist has of growing up and not being a Klansman. He couldnt defend his beliefs, and gave up trying to. In the end he came to believe his racist upbringing was wrong and he renounced it, but the damage had already been done and he had no friends and his own girlfriend broke up with him. Despite his remorse, no one trusted him. He wound up shooting himself, which is not typical, but a self destructive streak is strong with these folks. They feel trapped by their heritage into something that they feel they can no longer change.
2. The Educated Racist; knew this guy who could quote you any kind of statistic that showed blacks were more inclined to criminality than every other racial or ethnic group in the country. He was ready to debate at the drop of a hat. He never seemed to realize that the statistics were irrelevant since one cannot justify using a system of justice to discriminate against people by race, despite it being done today against whites. Last I heard he had married a mail order bride from the Phillipines and moved to Idaho. Seriously.
3. The Instinctive Racist; In the Army I met this Hispanic guy (Puerto Rican) who I had shared a barracks room with for a while. He was a sharp fellow and quick with his fists. He simply detested black people for what he called being 'Jungle bunnies'. He said that no ethnic community is safe from the 'Jungle Bunnies', no matter their race or religion. He thought that it was perfectly acceptable to do whatever one needed to do to protect oneself against blacks and the optics were irrelevant; only resulting safety mattered. He was known for getting into fights with blacks on and off post as he had a way of frequently using the 'N-Word'. I would consider him a mere bigot were it not for his attribution of the negatives stereotypes he held as applying to all blacks without exception. 'Some monkeys can act like people better than other monkeys,' he said.
He claimed to not hate blacks, but simply 'recognized them for the poorly evolved apes that they are.' He did not believe that the Iaw should be discriminating against blacks, but felt the biggest problem was the legal system shielding blacks from the consequences of their poorly evolved state. I converted to Catholicism about that time and asked him if he saw the differences between the Catholic churches teaching and his own views as troublesome in any way. He said only Anglo priests were nonracial and the Hispanic priests still could think clearly and didnt mimic the white nonsense like Anglo priests did. I have no idea if that is in fact true, but he saw no issue with the church on the matter.
4. The Race Baiter; This black guy I knew blamed everything bad that happened to him on the racism of whites. When the bad stuff happened to him from other blacks, well they were just being stooges for whites. I told him several times that it seemed to me that he was the cause of most of his problems since people dont want to be around people with his kind of negativity, which is an amazing thing coming from me, lol. But he couldnt accept that, like a socially awkward Evangelical who cannot accept that his social problem might have anything to do with them, it is all because of their Christianity. He was also very racist in his view of whites, but he would never try to explain it or defend it since I am white and I wouldnt understand. This guy later got dropped from the military, some kind of chapter whose numerical code I dont remember. The dude was just bad for morale, but that wasnt half as bad as he was for his own future.
5. The Race Manipulater; This Phillipino guy I knew was a very cunning and sly fellow who constantly played whites against blacks, and he wasnt always subtle about it either. Once he was getting dressed down by his white NCO and he got him in an argument with his black platoon sergeant with a couple of quotes of the white sergeants. Another time, some guys were calling him a 'Gook' and he said that that word is 'kind of like calling blacks N1ggers, wasnt it?' He said that just in time for about four black guys to hear it and that got them into the argument and as the whites and blacks got to yelling and shoving, the Phillipino guy snuck off, grinning. I asked him about it once, if that kind of thing always worked for him. After denying any such intent, he finally laughed and said 'It always works'.
6. The Condescending Racist; These are the whites who think blacks cannot help themselves, that they are genetically predetermined to be criminals, failures and idiots. These are the people who think that 'Law and Order' is code for anti-black racism since blacks are naturally criminals. They think that cuts to welfare is racist because blacks are lazy and dont want to work. They think that blacks are too stupid to be able to get their own ID cards, so any requirement to get IDs to vote is inherently racist. One of these guys, a Democratic activist in Arkansas I knew, said that the long term goal was to help blacks to survive and adapt to modern society until genetic engineering could bring them up to white standards, or be 'bred out'. He wouldnt explain what 'bred out' meant exactly.
Every racist I have ever met falls into one of these six categories, and I am leaving out the most common category, that of the Bigot, who doesnt have a reflective, systematic belief system that is built on racial identification. They just dont like people that are very different from them, whether it is race, culture, religion or whatever. They dont hate anyone, they just dont want to live around them, 'That is what tourism is for', one told me once.
So there you have it. If this helps in discussing racial issues, great. I think it most helps in identifying and bringing into focus what actual systematic racism is and what it is not.
1. The Raised Racist; knew this guy back in the 60's who was raised in a family with strong ties to the KKK, as in I think all his parents and grandparents were in the KKK. The guy had no chance any more than a Baptist has of growing up and not being a Klansman. He couldnt defend his beliefs, and gave up trying to. In the end he came to believe his racist upbringing was wrong and he renounced it, but the damage had already been done and he had no friends and his own girlfriend broke up with him. Despite his remorse, no one trusted him. He wound up shooting himself, which is not typical, but a self destructive streak is strong with these folks. They feel trapped by their heritage into something that they feel they can no longer change.
2. The Educated Racist; knew this guy who could quote you any kind of statistic that showed blacks were more inclined to criminality than every other racial or ethnic group in the country. He was ready to debate at the drop of a hat. He never seemed to realize that the statistics were irrelevant since one cannot justify using a system of justice to discriminate against people by race, despite it being done today against whites. Last I heard he had married a mail order bride from the Phillipines and moved to Idaho. Seriously.
3. The Instinctive Racist; In the Army I met this Hispanic guy (Puerto Rican) who I had shared a barracks room with for a while. He was a sharp fellow and quick with his fists. He simply detested black people for what he called being 'Jungle bunnies'. He said that no ethnic community is safe from the 'Jungle Bunnies', no matter their race or religion. He thought that it was perfectly acceptable to do whatever one needed to do to protect oneself against blacks and the optics were irrelevant; only resulting safety mattered. He was known for getting into fights with blacks on and off post as he had a way of frequently using the 'N-Word'. I would consider him a mere bigot were it not for his attribution of the negatives stereotypes he held as applying to all blacks without exception. 'Some monkeys can act like people better than other monkeys,' he said.
He claimed to not hate blacks, but simply 'recognized them for the poorly evolved apes that they are.' He did not believe that the Iaw should be discriminating against blacks, but felt the biggest problem was the legal system shielding blacks from the consequences of their poorly evolved state. I converted to Catholicism about that time and asked him if he saw the differences between the Catholic churches teaching and his own views as troublesome in any way. He said only Anglo priests were nonracial and the Hispanic priests still could think clearly and didnt mimic the white nonsense like Anglo priests did. I have no idea if that is in fact true, but he saw no issue with the church on the matter.
4. The Race Baiter; This black guy I knew blamed everything bad that happened to him on the racism of whites. When the bad stuff happened to him from other blacks, well they were just being stooges for whites. I told him several times that it seemed to me that he was the cause of most of his problems since people dont want to be around people with his kind of negativity, which is an amazing thing coming from me, lol. But he couldnt accept that, like a socially awkward Evangelical who cannot accept that his social problem might have anything to do with them, it is all because of their Christianity. He was also very racist in his view of whites, but he would never try to explain it or defend it since I am white and I wouldnt understand. This guy later got dropped from the military, some kind of chapter whose numerical code I dont remember. The dude was just bad for morale, but that wasnt half as bad as he was for his own future.
5. The Race Manipulater; This Phillipino guy I knew was a very cunning and sly fellow who constantly played whites against blacks, and he wasnt always subtle about it either. Once he was getting dressed down by his white NCO and he got him in an argument with his black platoon sergeant with a couple of quotes of the white sergeants. Another time, some guys were calling him a 'Gook' and he said that that word is 'kind of like calling blacks N1ggers, wasnt it?' He said that just in time for about four black guys to hear it and that got them into the argument and as the whites and blacks got to yelling and shoving, the Phillipino guy snuck off, grinning. I asked him about it once, if that kind of thing always worked for him. After denying any such intent, he finally laughed and said 'It always works'.
6. The Condescending Racist; These are the whites who think blacks cannot help themselves, that they are genetically predetermined to be criminals, failures and idiots. These are the people who think that 'Law and Order' is code for anti-black racism since blacks are naturally criminals. They think that cuts to welfare is racist because blacks are lazy and dont want to work. They think that blacks are too stupid to be able to get their own ID cards, so any requirement to get IDs to vote is inherently racist. One of these guys, a Democratic activist in Arkansas I knew, said that the long term goal was to help blacks to survive and adapt to modern society until genetic engineering could bring them up to white standards, or be 'bred out'. He wouldnt explain what 'bred out' meant exactly.
Every racist I have ever met falls into one of these six categories, and I am leaving out the most common category, that of the Bigot, who doesnt have a reflective, systematic belief system that is built on racial identification. They just dont like people that are very different from them, whether it is race, culture, religion or whatever. They dont hate anyone, they just dont want to live around them, 'That is what tourism is for', one told me once.
So there you have it. If this helps in discussing racial issues, great. I think it most helps in identifying and bringing into focus what actual systematic racism is and what it is not.
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