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When I was 3 months old, a 15-year-old black girl saved my life. I am white, and I was choking on some milk in a bottle my mother had given me; the young girl was hired by my family to sweep the porch and do other odd jobs, after school. She heard me make some noise, saw my distress, and picked me up. I immediately proceeded to throw up sour milk all over her shirt. That's the way my mother found the 2 of us, about 5 minutes later. So I owe my life to a 15-year old black girl.
I hadn't lived even 10 years after that, when I began to have negative experiences with some black kids. I won't go into detail; most of you have had the same experiences, growing up. As I matured, I came to one inescapable conclusion: there are good and bad in every race. You can often tell just by looking at them, or listening to them. "Prejudice" means "pre-judging", and I am guilty of it.
No that would be your ASSumption! I will say this though.... when I DJ'd in the local clubs it was generally the saggy jeans wearin'... white tee wearin'.... idiots that were causing a bunch of the riff raft! Ever wonder why most clubs have dress codes restricting those things along with dew rags, and hoodies, and flat billed ball caps? Is everyone who wears baggy pants or listens to rap a shady person? No. Of course not. And you and I know it goes deeper than that. But you know what they say about first impressions. All that aside, I'm a pretty good judge of character, and tend to treat people on an individual level. But I can generally tell if I want to associate with a particular individual or not.
It's not an assumption, that's what was stated in that poster's post. Perhaps you should have read it in it's entirety before rushing to defend it.
When I was 3 months old, a 15-year-old black girl saved my life. I am white, and I was choking on some milk in a bottle my mother had given me; the young girl was hired by my family to sweep the porch and do other odd jobs, after school. She heard me make some noise, saw my distress, and picked me up. I immediately proceeded to throw up sour milk all over her shirt. That's the way my mother found the 2 of us, about 5 minutes later. So I owe my life to a 15-year old black girl.
I hadn't lived even 10 years after that, when I began to have negative experiences with some black kids. I won't go into detail; most of you have had the same experiences, growing up. As I matured, I came to one inescapable conclusion: there are good and bad in every race. You can often tell just by looking at them, or listening to them. "Prejudice" means "pre-judging", and I am guilty of it.
Thanks for sharing and I appreciate your honesty.
In early elementary school I went to an all white school (only 2 black families). I experienced racism. Got into fights. Got called names. But there were also a ton of white kids who were my friends. So while I grew up knowing about racism, I knew it wasn't all white people and my best friend at the time was white.
I didn't experience that much racism, and there's definitely a lot more that are not racist, than are.
It's frustrating now to be judged based upon my race when I've done so much to overcome the negative stereotypes. I went to college, graduated with honors, have never lost a job and now run 3 businesses. I don't go out (work ALL the time), don't do anything crazy, but am still being harassed, profiled and setup (yes, won't go into detail) all because some cop who doesn't know me thinks I'm a drug dealer.
I can't help it if I'm a physically big guy who has a beard and dresses down. I was a college fullback, don't have to shave for my jobs, and I don't like to dress up.
Sue me.
I really do hate racism. I think people should be proud of their accomplishments, not something they were born into and had no control over.
In Ameirica, Class and Race are just about one and the same. It is not possible to be "class-ist" and not also racist. Get out of town with that. Own your racism. Its ok. It's just an anonymous online interaction.
You are wrong. My adopted kids' birth family are all 100% Caucasian (as far as I know anyway), and they are as low class as you can imagine -- drug addicts, on welfare for generations, felons, etc. On the other hand, I have many black and Hispanic acquaintances whom I greatly respect.
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I'm a culturalist... I would rather not be around people who blast rap music, have their pants down to their knees.. I find these people have a tendency towards violence and also drug use (not that I support the war on drugs) compared to people who don't do these things. Whether their skin color is black or white doesn't really matter much to me... their behavior does...
Im a culturalist as well. And have no problem with rap music. Its an art form. Just as Impressionalism and Abstract, Landscape, Portrait painting. One must get an understanding of these forms of art and may choose a favorite they appreciate the most. A culturalist, or rather a culturalist in the truest sense, whom appreciates all cultures and sub-cultures intimately and from afar by at least getting an understanding of culturalisms, would not have stated what you did. I don't think you are a culturalist at all. I think you like what you like. And to educate you on the audience of rap, its majority white miidle to upper class kids. Your'e welcome.
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