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When minorities post on the board saying that they want to relocate and would like to find a neighborhood with their culture, nobody says a word about racism.
If a white person makes that same post, people will come out of the woodwork to call them a racist.
Why aren't white people allowed to criticize other cultures for the same things they're criticized for?
Because we have given up the right to do so. Whites are so guilt ridden by real and perceived wrongs of the past that they have become afraid to criticize because you will be termed a racist. And everyone knows that being called a racist is the absolute worse thing you can be labeled these days.
Just thought I'd put my 2 cents in. There was a post put in by rusty56, that qouted Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Bill Cosby. This members post was deleted and given a demerit infraction for what was called racism. Would somebody please explain to me in little simple words how qouting three of America's influential black americans, in response to a question, is racism?
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered." Archibald Macleish - (1892-1982)
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Reason: added qoute
"When even one "American" -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril." -- Harry S. Truman - (1884-1972)
[SIZE=4]"The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own." -Margaret Chase Smith[/SIZE]
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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Originally Posted by kharing
Yawn. I turn on the television and the topic: Racism.
Reverse racism? Sure it happens, but doesn't prevent the victim from moving ahead in their careers as much.
Public_Newsense - is there something specific that has happened in your situation - or is this another thread created to bring out the trolls?
The topic may bore you but it seems things are taking a turn for the worst in a lot of ways. And I never said reverse racism is holding anyone back from anything but getting along with people most of us have nothing against. I know I'm an idealist but I wish there was a way we could come together and talk about it to stop it but the topic seems to be taboo. I know of at least one Black man who would have advocated talking about it. MLK. But, if he's half the man I and others of his race say he was, he wouldn't stand for reverse racism either. Like I said, my problem isn't with someones skin color, it's with attitudes of those with self-fulfilled racism that's perpetuating reverse racism. And no, I am not saying racism doesn't exist, I'm speaking solely of the sector of it that is created in ones mind in order to inflict racism in return upon everyone of a certain race to satisfy ones hate for past crimes of other racist idiots. Where is it ever going to end? Someone needs to be big enough to step up and say let's all ban together--all races--to end the racism/reverse racism here and now. I know, I'm a dork but I'd rather be a dork who gets along with everyone than a supposed cool person who hates other races.
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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If you want to see true racism call a japanese korean ....
I don't want to see racism, period. But one's degree of racism experienced doesn't deminish the racism another experiences. Because of my own mixed race I grew up a target of it myself but it seems to be--at least for me--harder to see others go through it than to think of my own experiences, especially when the targets did nothing to provoke it.
In the end it comes down to political corerectness in not being able to assign racism to thosethat do it ;no matter what race. But that is changing inthsi country as we see more reverse discrimination sits and people speaking out liike in this election. Thihngs have cahnged since black leaders stated that blacks can be called racist nio matter what they do.They can and have been.Even Obama ackn0wledged this in the Rev Wright controversy.
The topic may bore you but it seems things are taking a turn for the worst in a lot of ways. And I never said reverse racism is holding anyone back from anything but getting along with people most of us have nothing against. I know I'm an idealist but I wish there was a way we could come together and talk about it to stop it but the topic seems to be taboo.
Taboo? Think the issue has been beaten to the ground - even more so after the election results.
Still unclear why this topic is so close to your heart right now. Did something happen?
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