What Constitutes Racism To You?

[BuckToothMoron]

No you arrogant prick, I don’t live a totally white existence. There are 23 houses on my block, 4 black families, 3 lesbian couples, 2 Greeks, 2 Jews. It’s probably more diverse than your neighborhood. I give up. You are not interested in having a discussion, you are only interested in race baiting and shaming. I’m done with you.

Some people learn the lesson of racism, and so are not racist.

Some are incapable, and so double down on the whole process. Especially since the race card gives him an advantage over others and removes responsibility for his actions, it's really just about having power over others.

It's a crutch. When blacks abandon the need for their crutch and start accepting responsibility for their actions, racism will be a thing of the past. As long as they act like a child always pointing fingers at the other kid in order to escape responsibility for their actions and attitudes, it will continue.

You mean like the OP.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

There is zero evidence of that and her boss per her husband is not like that at all. She is just paranoid.

Hello, ADT. Unfortunately your Asian buddy's wife is not alone.



Peace.

Of course not. I am just giving personal examples. As I said many times racism is a self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

He didn't keep his mouth shut for several shootings in which different races were involved and he took sides right off. Ferguson, MO burned because of his rhetoric. He made a point of supporting Beyonce and her songs about shooting police. He supported the BLM movement and their rhetoric. All of this lead to his 'inciting' the masses.

*****SMILE*****

Trump has injected himself in EVERY. SINGLE. controversial issue to date.

By your definition, he's ultra racist.

AmIRight?

Are metropolitan areas being demolished/burned or police being assassinated because he's involved in those issues?

Which of those issues Trump has spoken up on are race related and in exactly what matter did he respond makes him a racist?

*****SMILE*****

 

[AveryJarhman]

I listened to this classic album a few days after it was released.

Sitting on a bud's living couch, wetting the tips of my fore and middle fingers before dipping them into a plastic sandwich baggie half filled with strawberry mescaline...all while my bud's older brother and his GF were above us unabashedly 'frogging' away.

Good times! Damaged Eagle, thanks for bringing back some fun memories.

I wonder if today I can listen to this LP without someone accusing me of being a pdeo-admirer!

Peace.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Give me an example of a real life policy that effects every black person on the planet.

Where did we determine that we were discussing every black person on the planet?

Who set that bar? And why?

Did I really have to specify, in America?

When else are you concerned about what happens anywhere in/everywhere on in the planet?

Rwanda - 1994

Sudan - ongoing

Kenya - ongoing

Retired vet... Need I go on? Do you need me to show concern for other parts of the world also?

Why aren't you concerned about issues in other countries that might affect the United States?

*****SMILE*****

 

[MarcATL]

This question is directed, mostly, to the self-professed conservatives, Republicans and other assorted rightwingers.

The truth might sting, Marc. Are you sure you want the answer?

Go for it...

 

[Geaux4it]

This question is directed, mostly, to the self-professed conservatives, Republicans and other assorted rightwingers.

Racism is a direct byproduct of our environment. Considering blacks per capita commit crime at an accelerated rate, one would be foolish to assume that when passing a young black man in a dark alley it is just another night.

Not all spiders are poisonous but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be afraid of spiders right?

-Geaux

 

[Damaged Eagle]

I need some name suggestion for my Fake Negro Sock Account.

Maybe some obscure African King?

Shaka Zulu? Shaft? Superfly?

Etehcam Utuh..

*****SMILE*****

 

[PredFan]

This question is directed, mostly, to the self-professed conservatives, Republicans and other assorted rightwingers.

Basically, Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another, or that a race of people are inferior to others.

 

[Geaux4it]

With Obama continuing to incite people to violence that caused the destruction of several metropolitan areas and the assassination of many good police officers.

*****SMILE*****

I can't access YouTube from my current location.

Can you explain, in your own words, how President Barrack Hussein Obama, "encited" people to violence, other than him being black white being President?

Uh oh... you're not in the big house are you?

-Geaux

 

[Dogmaphobe]

No you arrogant prick, I don’t live a totally white existence. There are 23 houses on my block, 4 black families, 3 lesbian couples, 2 Greeks, 2 Jews. It’s probably more diverse than your neighborhood. I give up. You are not interested in having a discussion, you are only interested in race baiting and shaming. I’m done with you.

Some people learn the lesson of racism, and so are not racist.

Some are incapable, and so double down on the whole process. Especially since the race card gives him an advantage over others and removes responsibility for his actions, it's really just about having power over others.

It's a crutch. When blacks abandon the need for their crutch and start accepting responsibility for their actions, racism will be a thing of the past. As long as they act like a child always pointing fingers at the other kid in order to escape responsibility for their actions and attitudes, it will continue.

You mean like the OP.

Yep ..

 

[Rocko]

No you arrogant prick, I don’t live a totally white existence. There are 23 houses on my block, 4 black families, 3 lesbian couples, 2 Greeks, 2 Jews. It’s probably more diverse than your neighborhood. I give up. You are not interested in having a discussion, you are only interested in race baiting and shaming. I’m done with you.

Some people learn the lesson of racism, and so are not racist.

Some are incapable, and so double down on the whole process. Especially since the race card gives him an advantage over others and removes responsibility for his actions, it's really just about having power over others.

It's a crutch. When blacks abandon the need for their crutch and start accepting responsibility for their actions, racism will be a thing of the past. As long as they act like a child always pointing fingers at the other kid in order to escape responsibility for their actions and attitudes, it will continue.

You mean like the OP.

Yep ..

Racism will never go away imo. It’s an ugly part of human nature that applies to all groups. The question is is do we do more harm to ourselves and others by paying it so much attention? I think the answer is yes

 

[MarcATL]

I will give you personal examples so that you can easily comprehend.

Let's see...

#1) My friend who is black was supposed to meet me at our CC pool with his kids. I was running late with my kids and just said walk in, tell them you're with me and I'll meet you late. He said, its an all white pool and he felt funny. I told him to just GO! He went and it was fine. He perceived something that was not there.

I would have done the same thing. And most blacks would too. For one thing, it's a fairly rare thing that blacks and whites socialize together in such an environment, even today. Especially when it's just 1 black (family) interjected into a sea of whites. That could have easily gone a different way. I'm sure your friend has experienced bad things in similar situations. Hence his response to that one.

#2) Another time, a different friend, also black was driving in his Mercedes SUV with me next to him. A cop pulls him over. He sighs and says, its because I am black. The cop came over and stated that his registration had expired. He was super nice and also black.

Ask your friend how many times he's been pulled over in that Mercedes, and ask him to list the many reasons. You'll be surprised...actually, in your case, shocked. As in your mind completely blown. Let me know what he says whenever you get around to it.

#3) I was coaching my child's 7th grade hoops team. There was a black lady ref and a white old man ref. The other coach (same person as in example 1) questioned a call and a spectator, who turned out to be the lady's boyfriend hopped out of his seat and in front of my team of 7th grade girls started yelling at him. He was a black male and yelled at him to not disrespect "his woman" and that he was that kind of "Ni$$er". In front of the girls. How do you think my daughter felt about him then? The lady ref came over and apologized after the man was escorted out. He used the "N" word, no one else. I don't go out publicly yelling I am that JEW I am that JEW. How is that racism you ask? Simple. It forms an opinion that blacks can yell what they want even if it is racist because they are on a different level.

You're describing regular American rudeness that's more and more prevalent at kid's games. There's many instances of brawls breaking out. This one seems rather tame in that light.

#4) My wife had a young black male and recent college graduate apply for a job at her company. He asked her if white people would be OK working with him. She was taken aback. The applicant perceived racism just because she works in the financial sector. Odd.

What's the ratio of non whites in the financial sector? The results of that should inform you on this matter.

#5) We were at a party and I told a new person I met that I actually voted for Trump. He said, oh...racist? I was like "huh"? He said well Trump voters are racists. I shrugged. Then my friend came over and made a Jewish joke. I am a Jew and we always have that sort off banter. We both laughed. That same person said. I knew it. Racist and antisemitic. I again shrugged. People, especially on the LEFT make analogies based on stupid data that is both unreliable and simply not true.

One thing about Trump supporters that's a certainty. They weren't as bothered w/Trump's racist rhetoric. Because they heard him espousing it for a year and they voted for him. And that's at a minimum. So yeah, understandable.

#6) I have a friend with an ethnic Asian last name. His wife did not take that name because when applying for jobs she did not want people to know she was definitely Asian based on her name. She perceived that people would be racist because of the aforementioned last name. That same persons believes she needs to outperform her white peers in order to get the same bonuses/raises/promotions. There is zero evidence of that and her boss per her husband is not like that at all. She is just paranoid.

You think she would take such a drastic move for just a whim? You honestly think she doesn't have years of experience that informed her decision? Again, ask her to expound, if you can. Let me know what she says.

Here are your sexy six examples. Enjoy. Knowing you, there will be a smiley and then this will be utterly ignored.

You have an idea of me that's based in fantasy, based on your biases and based on your ideaology.

See an example of someone just like you getting schooled here...



I hope you really listen to this debate. Let me know your thoughts afterwards.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

As I said racism is a self fulfilling prophecy. The family was welcome, my friend was never pulled over before or since and his wife is white, people don’t yell the “N” word unless they are black and feel like they want to throw it in your face, by your own admission you believe that Trump is racist and by the transitive property I am too, there are many blacks, Asians, women in the financial sector my wife was taken aback. Her own husband said she was paranoid.

I ll Watch the video. Dinesh generally kills it in debates. But I ll have an open mind. Here is your biggest issue, Marc. Even if this country were super racist, what exactly would or could you do about it? I am a Jew. I know Many hate Jews. Idc. I just live my life. I cannot stop someone from hating Jews.

 

[Crepitus]

This question is directed, mostly, to the self-professed conservatives, Republicans and other assorted rightwingers.

Aww shit... You pushed the "stupid" button.

Aww shit... Did somebody page tigerred59 ? Just what we needed!

Are you trying to accuse me of being someone's sock puppet?

Jesus on a bloody crutch! You're dreaming again. Wake up!

No, I'm.just trying to figure out what you meant by your comment.

 

[Hossfly]

This question is directed, mostly, to the self-professed conservatives, Republicans and other assorted rightwingers.

Aww shit... You pushed the "stupid" button.

Aww shit... Did somebody page tigerred59 ? Just what we needed!

Are you trying to accuse me of being someone's sock puppet?

Jesus on a bloody crutch! You're dreaming again. Wake up!

No, I'm.just trying to figure out what you meant by your comment.

I was paging tigerred59 She's pretty outspoken about her opinion of the white race. That was it.

 

[MarcATL]

Uh oh... you're not in the big house are you?

-Geaux

This legit made me laugh.

Funny guy.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Give me an example of a real life policy that effects every black person on the planet.

No one has jurisdiction over the entire planet therefore no one can create or enforce a policy for the whole world. Generally they're formulated and enforced by individual nations and lower level governments.

Since the nationality of the African American members here on U.S. Message that I am familiar with are all American citizens (to the best of my knowledge) I always take their references to racism and race relations to be within the parameters of here in the United States and U.S. law.

There are plenty of laws, policies and procedures on the books that explicitedly and intentionally negatively impacted people of African descent based on the erroneous belief of the superiority of the white race and allegedl inferiority of the black race.

If you're an American citizen and you don't know this then I can ony assume that you are woefully ignorant of U.S. history or simply being disingenuous.

There are tons of people who think that just because something doesn't affect them personally then it's simply not an issue for anyone. More ignorance.

At first glance the action of white school bus driver Delores Davis in Coushatta, Louisiana seemed so preposterous that many took it as a sick joke. Davis made national news when she ordered a dozen black children to the back of her school bus. That ignited a firestorm of parent protest and rage. A shamed and embarrassed Red River Parish school board backpedaled fast and suspended Davis, promised an investigation, and ordered retraining for all bus drivers. Most chalked Davis’s silly, mindless act up to a bad case of one person’s insensitivity or just plain stupidity, and that it could only happen in a small, backwash town as Coushatta. That’s hardly a sign that Jim Crow segregation is alive again.

The bitter truth is that it never totally died. The popular myth is that the 1964 civil rights bill, and the torrent of voting rights laws, affirmative action rulings, state and federal court decisions, and anti-discrimination lawsuits, over the years swept all segregation laws into history’s dustbin. They didn’t. Three years after the 1964 civil rights bill ostensibly made legal segregation illegal, Southern cities tried to sneak laws onto the books upholding segregation. Sarasota, Florida, for instance, passed a city ordinance that authorized the police to arrest interracial bathers from the city’s beaches. Though the Supreme Court outlawed miscegenation laws in dozens of states, some states kept the laws on the books for decades after. It took a voter referendum in Alabama in 2000 to repeal the state’s anti-interracial marriage law. And even then, 40 percent of the voters backed the law.

Six years later, Alabama, and nearly ten other states keep Jim Crow laws on their books. Not all the states are in the South, and despite public embarrassment, and repeated demands to cleanse the books of them, state legislators, and even voters have resisted taking any action. While the laws are unenforceable, they aren’t laughable, antique relics of a long buried racial past. They insult and degrade, and have had and still have a corrosive affect on law and public policy. In Georgia teachers that taught at once segregated private schools are eligible to collect state pensions, and as far as we know many of them are.

Continued here​

 

[Defiant1]

So all you have is some people who retired from a private school still receive the pensions they earned.

Laws against private segregation violate our inherent rights.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

When I see thread after thread at this forum, started by people like the OP of this one....I can't help but wonder where all the intelligent people have gone.
It's also painfully evident these lost souls have absolutely no life. So sad.

Just angry, bitter, hateful people.