OMG, I'm white! (racist)

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by sturmgeist

Does the fact that they're White have anything to do with it or is it mainly the money? Would you willingly trade places with a White man similar in looks and socioeconomic status as yourself?

I wouldn't wish that on anyone, not even a White guy.

[nimchimpsky]

Originally Posted by Lucario

I wouldn't wish that on anyone, not even a White guy.

I am white and I would never want to be a person of color and the reason I say that is because I am already tired of the horizontal oppression and internalization that happens within the other minority communities I'm a member of. I would never want to add another minority to my plate. I've seen the kind of self-policing that happens within the Black community and wouldn't want to get caught up in all that drama. I know it's not every Black person or person of color who buys into that drama, but enough do, and it's pervasive enough that it's something I wouldn't want to deal with. I'd venture to guess that most of the white people who say they wouldn't mind being black aren't aware of this kind of horizontal oppression that results in communities that have been vertically oppressed. Just today a white person I know well was listening to a story two women of color were having about their elementary school memories of this one girl being teased for being dark-skinned. He was genuinely shocked to find out there is racism within the Black community. IMO I think most white people are clueless about issues within the Black community and among other racial minorities, and hence, don't realize the implications of claiming "I wouldn't mind swapping places with a Black person."

[Ming Ming]

I would never want to be white, they age faster and get fat.

[City Data Guy]

Originally Posted by Ming Ming

I would never want to be white, they age faster and get fat.

Anyone with poor diet and exercising habits will get fat. There are fat blacks, Hispanics, and Asians too, you know.

[TNEC_Dad]

Originally Posted by SlimRider

Explore the concept of "manifest destiny" and what affect it had upon our spanish-speaking neighbors of the south.

Explore the concept of slavery and the million upon millions of lives destroyed and the aftermath, just might even be worse yet.

Explore the mutulations in Sudan.

[squarian]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Last i remember, the folks in Spain are white. Very white.

I suppose this must mean the folks (volk?) in Scandinavia are very, very, very, very white.

[squarian]

Originally Posted by SlimRider

Explore the concept of "manifest destiny" and what affect it had upon our spanish-speaking neighbors of the south.

Explore the concept that "affect" and "effect" mean different things.

[MIKEETC]

Originally Posted by HurricaneDC

I'm half white and half hispanic but people regularly assume I'm white because I don't "look" Hispanic. I wouldn't be surprised if that's given me some privilege in day-to-day life.

I'm mixed, too, with a "White-sounding" last name but I totally look like a minority. The last name has limited my encounters with the police during traffic stops to simple tickets and saved me from beatdowns and shakeups many times!!

[i'm kidding - maybe]

[Baldrick]

Originally Posted by PhoenixRisingAgain

I say, if you're white and you hate it, why not just kill yourself?

Because you can learn to live with pretty much everything except your own death?

[Cyborgt800]

The farther your effect goes over there the further you're affecting their ability to count to two too!