I could comment in so many ways I will just leave it at one word AMAZING!
Yeah I agree. I honestly am starting to feel as though that the majority of the white population has moved on from racism but the blacks are the ones holding tight to it.
for example, the ONLY time I ever think about racism or think about the color of peoples skins are when blacks drop the race card.
And as someone mentioned in another thread, something else that has always bothered me is you have all these black specific TV shows, talk shows, cable channels.
You have BET "Black Entertainment Television"
Totally accepted and it "empowers" black people I guess or something like that.
So what if some were to create a WET "White Entertainment Television"
First thing that would happen is everyone would start screaming racism, saying it is probably run by the KKK.
And I have brought this argument up before and I have heard blacks say "well all TV is "WHITE TV" blacks need their own cable channel and their own programming"
Fricken B.S.!! I am soooo tired of this crap.
Seriously, if this country and this world is ever going to get past the race issue it needs to be dropped on both fricken sides.
So blacks got dealt a bad hand in the past, get over it. seriously, there are laws that protect people now, if someone feels they are being discriminated against prove it and fight it.
Yes this country has had major issues in the past with racism. But this is nothing new, not accepting someone who is different goes back to the beginning of time.
Slavery in the United States was nothing new, that too goes back to the beginning of time.
before Christ people were selling themselves into slavery.
One tribe would fight another tribe and turned the conquered tribe into slaves (the ones that survived). And when I say tribe I am referring to all persons on this planet regardless of skin color or location.
When black slaves were brought over here they were not conquered by people from this country, they were sold to people from this country by warring tribes who took the tribes they conquered and sold the ones who survived into slavery.
Was it right? there was no right or wrong back then it was just the way things had been since the beginning of time.
Would it be right now? he11 no. You don’t do that or act that way in a civilized society.
So seriously, to all the black people who always see skin color and are the first to scream racism, drop it. I honestly don’t see skin color until you point it out.
And with this Obama thing. WTH!! Now it is in the news that “Black” people are going to be upset if Obama doesn’t win?
Does that mean all blacks are expected to vote for Obama!!
What kind of crap is that?
Seriously, to all the black people out there, put yourselves in the other shoe (and don’t you dare say you have been in the other shoe because unless you are over 45 years old I doubt it).
How would black people react and respond if it was in the news that
“White voters are concerned that McCain might not win”
“If McCain does not win some whites might be so upset that they are going to throw a tantrum like a little baby and start destroying things and burning up their neighbor hoods.”
And yes, I add the word Tantrum because that is EXACTLY what it is, a fricken tantrum, to quote the article:
“"My audience is upset," she said in an interview. "Some people said they would be so angry it would be reminiscent of the [1960s] riots -- that is how despondent they would be."”
So what? It is ok for grown people to riot in the streets and destroy things because they didn’t get there way? Is this blackmail? I mean is this meant to be as a threat that if Obama doesn’t win blacks are going to rise up and start destroying things?
WTH!! How stupid is that!! Seriously!!
So all the blacks out there, please, I am asking you to help me to stop seeing color, stop dropping the race card. Seriously, all you are doing is keeping a festering wound from healing in this country. You just keep jabbing at it and making the wound worse. Let it heal.. give it a rest. Lets all raise our children so they don’t see color.
That is the BEST way to combat racism, stop it here and now, and don’t pass it on to our children.
If ANY of you, black or white has EVER made a comment to your children or in the presence of your children that hints at any type of racism YOU are the problem and all you are doing is keeping the wound open. Don’t be the problem, be the solution, if you really want to stop racism, stop it, no seriously, stop it, stop it in your home, stop it at your work, stop it in all aspects of your life.
As the bible says, it is not went enters a mans mouth that defiles him it is what comes out.
In other words to all you parents out there, you cant help the thoughts that come into your head, and you cant help the prejudice that has been put there from past and probably put there from YOUR parents, but you can break the chain, you can take those thoughts and choose to NOT pass them on to your children, you can choose NOT to pass that burden on to them as some of our parents passed it on to us.
Yes, there was without a doubt a time when blacks needed to stand up for themselves, and whites needed to stand up for them also. And laws NEEDED to be passed and we as a country NEEDED to get away from slavery and segregation.
But I think for the most part mission accomplished, now I think we need to continue the process by letting the racism die within each of us that hold on to it and letting our children grow up without us poisoning their minds. And I think if we can accomplish that then everything will be fine.
Seriously, in closing, I am 46 years old, I have never “owned” another human being, I never used to see color when I was a kid, if it had not been for black people keeping the thought of racism alive and complaining constantly about racism, I might have grown up never knowing what racism was. When I was a young boy I wanted to play with other kids, their skin color was never an issue to me, and my skin color was never an issue to them. It is only when we grow up and the adults poison our mind is when it becomes an issue.
I see all three of my sons, and they have friends spend the night sometimes, they have all kinds of friends of different heritages and colors. It doesn’t matter to them, they are their friends, my sons will have sometimes 7 or more friends over at one time (mainly my 16 year old and the kids are usually from his football team. And within the 7 friends a few might be black, a few might be brown, a few might be white. But that doesn’t matter, they are all my sons friends.
I see my 10 year old, if we go some where (like we went to my 15 year olds first football game last night) my 10 year old was on the track and met up with some other kids, all different colors, different races, it didn’t matter to ANY OF THEM!! They were kids playing!!
The only way my sons are going to know anything about racism is what they are taught in school or if they start to experience what I have experienced and that is black people constantly telling them they are racist all their lives just because they are white. That is how my boys will EVER know anything about racism
So I reiterate, it is us ADULTS who have the power to stop the racism so stop it.
