Why is it that only whites can be racists?

[Big Z]

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab mericans, Native Americans, etc.....And then there are just -Americans.

You pass whites on the street
and sneer in their direction.

You Call whites,'White boy," 'Cracker", ' 'Honkey", ''Whitey,"' '"Caveman,"

....And that's OK.

But when whites call you the "N" word, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink,

....You call whites racist.




You have the United Negro College Fund.

You have Hispanic History Month.

You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Asian History Month.

You have Black History Month.

You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have Yom Hashoah.

You have Kawanza.

You have the NAACP.

And you have BET.

If whites had "WET" (White Entertainment Television)

....whites would be racists.



If there was a white Pride Day

....You would call them racists.


If there was White History Month


....It would be racist.


If there was any organizationfor only whites to 'advance' OUR lives,

....It would be racists.


We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce,
and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.



If there was a college fund that only gave white students scholarships .

....You know it would be racists.


There are over 60 openly-proclaimed Black-only Colleges in the US,
yet if there were even one 'White-only College

....THAT would be a racist college.

In the Million-Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights.

If whites marched for their race and rights,

....You would call them racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and red, and you're not afraid to announce it.

But when whites announce their white pride

....You call them racists.


You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us.

But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer who is running from the LAW and posing a threat to ALL of society.

....You call him a racist.




Why is it that only whites can be racists?

[BigPoppa1411]

you make a valid point.

Racisim sux.

[DRTYFN]

[DennisAJC]

This topic preases me.

[BKLYNH2]

Is that poster for real? Do they really put that sh!t up in offices?

[h2co-pilot]

Originally Posted by Big Z

Why is it that only whites can be racists?

Because we can.

[MDimitri]

Originally Posted by Big Z

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab mericans, Native Americans, etc.....And then there are just -Americans.

You pass whites on the street
and sneer in their direction.

You Call whites,'White boy," 'Cracker", ' 'Honkey", ''Whitey,"' '"Caveman,"

....And that's OK.

But when whites call you the "N" word, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink,

....You call whites racist.




You have the United Negro College Fund.

You have Hispanic History Month.

You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Asian History Month.

You have Black History Month.

You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have Yom Hashoah.

You have Kawanza.

You have the NAACP.

And you have BET.

If whites had "WET" (White Entertainment Television)

....whites would be racists.



If there was a white Pride Day

....You would call them racists.


If there was White History Month


....It would be racist.


If there was any organizationfor only whites to 'advance' OUR lives,

....It would be racists.


We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce,
and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.



If there was a college fund that only gave white students scholarships .

....You know it would be racists.


There are over 60 openly-proclaimed Black-only Colleges in the US,
yet if there were even one 'White-only College

....THAT would be a racist college.

In the Million-Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights.

If whites marched for their race and rights,

....You would call them racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and red, and you're not afraid to announce it.

But when whites announce their white pride

....You call them racists.


You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us.

But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer who is running from the LAW and posing a threat to ALL of society.

....You call him a racist.




Why is it that only whites can be racists?

HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR! Whatever happened to basis of equality?

[Agriv8r]

all races an be racist.....they all just point out the whites doin it....

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

YOM HOSHOAH is a rememberence of ALL 61 million VICTIMS of WWII of which over 99% of them were white. It is not just a rememberence of the 6 million Jews or 20 million Russians or Catholic Priest and Nuns or the disabled.

Being RACIST is being ignorant, study a little more will you...

and by the way if you pay attention more then 99% of Jews in the United States say they are "American Jews"
the other 1% are young Jewish Girls who are JAPS (Jewish American Princesses)

World War Two Deaths
Total Deaths : 61 Million
Soviet Union : 25,568,000
China : 11,324,000
Germany : 7,060,000
Poland : 6,850,000
Japan : 1,806,000
Yugoslavia : 1,700,000
Rumania : 985,000
France : 810,000
Hungary : 750,000
Austria : 525,000
Greece : 520,000
Italy : 410,000
Czechoslovakia : 400,000
Great Britain : 388,000
USA : 295,000
Holland : 250,000
Belgium : 85,000
Finland : 79,000
Canada : 42,000
India : 36,000
Australia : 29,000
Spain : 22,000
Bulgaria : 21,000
New Zealand : 12,000
South Africa : 9,000
Norway : 5,000
Denmark : 4,000

[Adam in CO]

I just try to be open minded and hate everyone equally.

[KenP]

Originally Posted by Adam in CO

I just try to be open minded and hate everyone equally.

[frenzy1]

Hey, but at least we got WHITE PRIDE WORLD WIDE !

[CO Hummer]

Why is it that only White guys start these type of threads?

[frenzy1]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

Why is it that only White guys start these type of threads?

because if a black guy would do it, he'd be called a RACIST !

[wpage]

Does Jesse know bout this...

Run Jesse Run!

[HummerHippy]

I think I'll just say, that
1) it's too bad that we treat each other like that. Yes, it seems other races can do/say thinkgs that whites, in this country , cannot or should not.

2) It was only about 50 years ago that we allowed balcks to attend our schools. (Was it 1954 in Little Rock?) We enslaved them, and basically treated them poorly. I dont think that we all live in a nice harmonius society where all races get along and are all judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin.

Again, it's too bad that we all just get along, but I think there's some history that explains why the non whites feel a little discriminated against. Perhaps they're tired of it and it is reflected in themsleves.

[h2co-pilot]

Okay well, anyone with time may continue on this post- I am drinking a cup of coffee on a Friday night relaxing from a long week of homemaking and am starved for adult thoughts and conversation.

I think blaming whites for slavery is just as racist as the mean old plantation owners that treated them badly. But note that some slaves were treated quite well under the circumstances. Blacks sold blacks in Africa. They sold them to spaniards and later the english. Africans were sitting on literal gold mines and diamonds and somehow they decided to sell their own people.

Even today, they treat eachother awfully in my opinion, and some still use poorer citizens for profit by force. Ever see "Blood Diamond"? Maybe it was the "obvious" class system that was abandoned by other civilizations far before that was in play over there. They took indentured servitude to a whole nother level. And it still baffles me that an area so close to the Tigris is so far behind other areas of the world in that regard. Maybe it's the Lions and Tigers. But I can tell you, there are no Lions in Georgia.

In selling them to the sailors from countries pioneering in seamanship- their travels brought blacks to areas of the world. Those areas of the world began to see blacks as slaves. That notion had to start from somewhere. But that's in the past and no one seems to look before 1654 AD nor at the other areas and races of the world.

In early America there were many different races designated as "slaves" but it was the farm regions in the south that caused slavery to be designated to just Africans for that purpose in the 17th century. Very racist, very racist indeed. Even some "free blacks" had slaves but only 1 in 4 households had them in the slave states and it was mostly for labor on the plantations. Kind of like illegal migrant workers now, but they are not slaves because of their color and they choose to be there.

Anyway, it was awful. But many other white Americans saw that and the majority of white Americans see it now. In fact, 360,000 members of the Union Army which was predominantly white died to free blacks in the Civil War. That's roughly 120 times the amount lost on 9/11. Over half of the total 654,000 black slaves (out of 12 million throughout the world- mostly to Brazil) that were brought to the United States.


So it is indeed very presumptious and outright ridiculous to think that all whites were responsible for slavery. Not to mention that millions of whites have immigrated here since as well as blacks. So Keyshaun could be blaming James, when in fact, James' great great great great grandfather was an indentured servant from Ireland and Keyshaun's great great great grandfather was a fresh market vendor from Jamaica.

I am a white woman, I live comfortably and grew up comfortably in Virginia. My father worked hard and went to OSU on a music scholarship. His father was an artist and his mother an organ player at a church. His grandfather was a president of an Ohio college and he grew up working on a farm of his father who came over from Welch England. My mother's side is from Missouri - farmers and native americans. So I have no familial ties to black slavery in the United States. Every black child I grew up with went to an unsegregated school as did their parents. Every black person has had every right I have had and more scholarship opportunities. And after college there are the racial quotas in the work force that need to be met etc. But I can assume that I have been looked at by a black person and judged an evil whitey.

It's not my fault that the government in place in this geographical area voted slaves to be African. I did not vote for it or the elected officials that established that ruling nor did the people I came from. Many white Americans can say that.

As a white person I am tired of being made to feel guilty for that crap. I'm tired and weary of being afraid to step on a black persons toes. As a woman, I must gloat that my kind hasn't been as bitter even though we were granted our rights as citizens 50 years later.

That's all.

[HummerHippy]

Interesting points CP. This topic can probably be more heated than abortion

Anyway, if my statement above is taken as though I blame whites for slavery, that was not what I meant. I only meant to say that whites enslaved blacks. That is fact. Im not saying why they did it, if they were right or wrong in doing it, just that it happened. And I intended to use that historical fact as a possib;e reason to the original question of this thread. I dont mean to make the blanket statment about allwhites doing this or all blacks doing that. I only wanted to state that whites enslaved blacks. No other qualification.

Union soldiers died to free blacks. Could be true. I wasnt there. But it makes more sense to me that union soldiers died because their president sent them to war against the southern states who wanted to secede from the union. It was my understanding that a main reson Pres Lincoln issued emmancipation proclimation was to have a way to get another group of men fighting for the north. In this case, slaves. Now, again, Im not a history scholar so I could be wrong. I just think the freeing of the slaves was more of a consequence of the war and not a cause of it to begin.

Back to the original question of this thread, I was responding to the USA racism issue. Blacks sold blacks in africa, but I dont know if the countries where that took place, has issues with blacks being somewhat "allowed' to make racist statements, while their white counterparts cant.

anyway, I do not feel guilty for slavery. I will try to help people if they are in need. it's not our fault, and it is certainly not a black persons fault either. So is it right to have racistist remarks come from one race and not allow it from another? No, but the question was why is this the case. And I attempted to offer an explanationas to why it is the case. No opinion as to whether it is right or not. Thats all.

Enjoy the coffee. And imagine a world where everyone spoke intelligently, acted with kindness, and were generally nice to one another. Wouldnt that be nice. )

Peace.

[h2co-pilot]

Hey Hippers

I wasn't really aiming that at your post, just thinking out loud on the overall subject. I think that most whites or at least some do feel guilty. I have felt guilty most of my life because that is what I was taught in school. Whites chained up blacks, threw them in boats and we whipped them to do work in the fields.

So I think that in some way that guilt has allowed whites to be very passive in racial pride, tolerant to criticism and somewhat submissive in politics and socially. You know?

Interesting point about the Union Troops. I guess the same could be said of all troops of any war. But I always understood it to be very passionate and our deadliest war- but I also learned that in school.

I did enjoy the coffee a little too much, I have been trying to sleep for hours.

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

Originally Posted by HummerHippy

Interesting points CP. This topic can probably be more heated than abortion

Anyway, if my statement above is taken as though I blame whites for slavery, that was not what I meant. I only meant to say that whites enslaved blacks. That is fact. Im not saying why they did it, if they were right or wrong in doing it, just that it happened. And I intended to use that historical fact as a possib;e reason to the original question of this thread. I dont mean to make the blanket statment about allwhites doing this or all blacks doing that. I only wanted to state that whites enslaved blacks. No other qualification.

Union soldiers died to free blacks. Could be true. I wasnt there. But it makes more sense to me that union soldiers died because their president sent them to war against the southern states who wanted to secede from the union. It was my understanding that a main reson Pres Lincoln issued emmancipation proclimation was to have a way to get another group of men fighting for the north. In this case, slaves. Now, again, Im not a history scholar so I could be wrong. I just think the freeing of the slaves was more of a consequence of the war and not a cause of it to begin.

Back to the original question of this thread, I was responding to the USA racism issue. Blacks sold blacks in africa, but I dont know if the countries where that took place, has issues with blacks being somewhat "allowed' to make racist statements, while their white counterparts cant.

anyway, I do not feel guilty for slavery. I will try to help people if they are in need. it's not our fault, and it is certainly not a black persons fault either. So is it right to have racistist remarks come from one race and not allow it from another? No, but the question was why is this the case. And I attempted to offer an explanationas to why it is the case. No opinion as to whether it is right or not. Thats all.

Enjoy the coffee. And imagine a world where everyone spoke intelligently, acted with kindness, and were generally nice to one another. Wouldnt that be nice. )

Peace.

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