Why do white folks always get angry when minorities play the race card (cost, carry)
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The NAACP threw a fit down in Georgia that schools wanted to have class on MLK Day to help make up for missed school days duing the storm.
That's not what I was asking... I meant how do you know "they" wouldn't complain if President's Day were suggested instead? Methinks you were just ASSuming.
I don't give a rat's ass about the historic struggles of black folks, honestly, b/c they have no bearing on today. The past is the past and most of us have moved on now. I suggest you do the same.
Wow... and I thought I couldn't disagree with you MORE, but you have now trumped all of your other comments on C-D. History has a bearing on the present, because that which is forgotten is doomed to repeat itself. As we say on Yom HaShoah - never forget. That doesn't mean we can't move forward, but to erase & negate the civil rights struggle is ignorant, insulting and dangerous.
P.S. If you don't think racism exists anymore, just because you didn't SEE people being harassed, again that is an ignorant and dangerous POV.
Actually, the reason I didn't respond to this OP is because I felt she wasn't able to get a coherent thought out. Do you even understand what she's talking about? Does she not realize that "playing the race card" is a bad thing? Apparently she is using it in place of "accuses one of racism," but that is not the same thing at all. Then I had to wonder if it was a white poster posing as an illiterate black person just to get a rise out of people. Since I couldn't be sure, I just didn't respond.
You know what's funny? I didn't even ponder or assume the OP's race, and had to go back & see if I missed where she said "I'm Black, btw" - because I didn't know either way. I also had little trouble understanding the post, and I'm the most anal person EVER when it comes to spelling/grammar.
Well in my district a few years ago they proposed starting a week earlier (labor day) and nary a peep from the NAACP.
Not the same thing, unless they proposed school ON Labor Day... and did people of any color complain about that? I wouldn't be surprised if they did, especially since you said they only proposed that start date. Regardless, her (Mrs Skeffington's) comment and assumption was very telling.
This may be true for you, but if it were true across the board then by default there would be no racism nowadays. Ever. At all. This is just an ignorant statement from that point of view.
Did you ever consider the fact that people base their prejudices on personal experience? The same way that blacks go around saying every white person is racist, there are some whites who have been truly hurt in some way by a black person, so they hold that stereotype to ALL blacks. Not saying it's right, but I would not just base today's racism on the actions of a few white folks 150 years ago. THAT is ignorant.
I don't give a rat's ass about the historic struggles of black folks, honestly, b/c they have no bearing on today. The past is the past and most of us have moved on now. I suggest you do the same.
Would you please explain how they have no "bearing" on today, and I'm sure I'll refute that.
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Originally Posted by Dollymixture
This may be true for you, but if it were true across the board then by default there would be no racism nowadays. Ever. At all. This is just an ignorant statement from that point of view.
Had a white conservative used the same erroneous punctuation and grammar you did in this post, liberals would have eaten him or her alive. As is, you seem to have gotten a pass from all sides. Are we seeing a double standard in action? As a known white male, I'm certain I would have been called out by a literate leftist were I the writer of a similarly written post. Does your status as an African-American - I'm assuming you're black - mean no white person may criticize your use of the English language for fear of being called a bigot? More to the point, will I be labeled a racist for pointing out what everyone has seen but no one appears to have mentioned?
Yes princessdanika99, double standards abound. And while you wondered "why most white people try to disguise it like it is not happening", I expect you'll be a little disappointed that I failed to turn the customary whites-only "blind side" to this particular double standard.
Firstly, we are writing posts on an internet forum, not post-graduate biomedical research papers. Secondly, there are posters on here from all races and backgrounds who use poor grammar. I'm not going to start listing names, but there are several "conservative" posters on here who consistently spell words incorrectly, use commas in the wrong spots, etc. So here we have a double-standard within a double-standard. Will it be fair to assume that you'll be critiquing the grammar of every other poster from now on?
Wow... and I thought I couldn't disagree with you MORE, but you have now trumped all of your other comments on C-D. History has a bearing on the present, because that which is forgotten is doomed to repeat itself. As we say on Yom HaShoah - never forget. That doesn't mean we can't move forward, but to erase & negate the civil rights struggle is ignorant, insulting and dangerous.
P.S. If you don't think racism exists anymore, just because you didn't SEE people being harassed, again that is an ignorant and dangerous POV.
It's not ignorant, insulting or dangerous. What IS ignorant, insulting and dangerous is to say that all blacks have a right to play the race card anytime they don't get their way. Ya know what, you can add ridiculous to our little list of adjectives as well. No one is saying we need to forget, I am saying we need to move on and stop holding the actions of a few truly racist people 150 years ago, or heck, even 50 years ago, against the entire population of whites in 2011.
And no, I never once said racism doesn't exist, I said I have never seen it and therefore I do not believe it happens on as large a scale as blacks would like to have us believe.
Please go back and reread my post since you obviously would rather take things out of context than actually consider that my words have validity.
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History has a bearing on the present, because that which is forgotten is doomed to repeat itself. As we say on Yom HaShoah - never forget. That doesn't mean we can't move forward, but to erase & negate the civil rights struggle is ignorant, insulting and dangerous.
