Comments on: Some Thoughts on Race

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:45:06 +0000

Yeah, one of the important things to remember about racism is that it does cut across all groups. I’ve known people of all colors who automatically despised people of different colors, and it’s very sad. I seem to remember Malcolm X said, and later recanted, that black people can’t be racist. He was mistaken.

But I would like to emphasize again that I think class is far more important. What we really need to do is find a way to help the poor of all races and help bring them up beyond the poverty line. That will give them more opprotiunities and benefit our nation as a whole.

By: Eva

Eva — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:16:35 +0000

I agree that it was very niceley put… there are issues in the world that will always be just another issue. No matter what it is, or who does it, at some point of time or another, there will be people who thinks that “it was a racist issue” when the issue are with 2 different races (primarily, white and black). I am a black woman and I get along with all races. You know, growing up in Detroit (an inner city) I have found myself having more problem with people of the same color as mine opposed to other races. There have been times where I have been in situations where I believe the other person was racist. Just because I have been in a few incidents where I believe the person was racist, that doesn’t make me think different to all the other people of that race. I early look at racism as ignorance. I do not blame all people for how they believe, because they were raised that way. However, I do have a problem with people that thinks that if they have a problem with 1 person of a different race, they blame that race as a whole. I tell people all the time, yeah black people were in slavery (years and years ago) how in the hell you expect me to think that the white people in the world today is still the blame for the way the world was years ago. I also have friends (black) that don’t belive that they are prejudice or racist, but I think they are (only to a certain extent). For example, I have a friend, that has “road rage” all the time. If the road problem is with another “black” person, she would simply say something like “Stupid bitch” or “dumb ass” to the person. But if the road problem was with another race (like white) she would automatically say “Stupid white bitch or Dumb prejudice white ass”. To me that is racist/ prejudice. No matter how its put.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:40:02 +0000

Yeah, I mean, I understand sticking up for the home team, but there’s a limit.

The best example I can think of with this is the so-called Gena 6, a group of six kids who beat another kid so severely he had a concussion and required hospitalization. The six kids who beat up the one were black and the victim was white. So clearly when the six were prosecuted it was a racist act.

At the time I kept thinking to myself, “What if this had been six white boys and a black girl?” People would’ve been after their heads for that. Or even six white boys and a black boy. But since it was six black boys and a white boy, well, clearly them being prosecuted was a racist act, I guess.

The real problem with nonsense like that and the stuff from Sharpton and Jackson is that when real racist stuff surfaces, people just roll their eyes and claim folk like them are just “crying wolf” yet again. It’s sad, really.

By: no1infidel

no1infidel — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:25:31 +0000

Nicely put. While you touched on it a little, one of the things that frustrates me the most is when a given race (or organization) stands behind their group “absolutely” with no regard for whether the person they are supporting is wrong or not. Jesse and Sharpton are famous for this. Regardless of how heinous the crime or how crooked the politician, they stand behind them (their black constituents anyway) with all their might and somehow have the gal to blame it on racism. They defend the indefensible!

Whether you’re caught with 90K in your freezer or gunning down people on a subway, you’re worthy of a hearty and loud support. Support that should be reserved for actual victims of racism.

If these so-called leaders, communities and advocates would even occasionally come out and say, “hell no, I can’t defend that”, than their credibility would skyrocket. Regardless of race, some people are just losers and that fact should be recognized by EVERYONE.