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Originally Posted by KickAssArmyChick
I don't think you get the OP's point.
If I say I want to live around White (Caucasian) people (I am Caucasian), I am labeled racist.
If a Black person says he wants to live around Black people, it is not racist. He is just expressing himself and wants to be around "his people".
There is always a double standard. Whites cannot be proud of being White. But Latinos, Asians, Blacks can say they are proud of being XYZ and it is perfectly fine.
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I like this post...cause it gives me a chance to explain the following...
I was raised in Eastern WA...can't really get much more 'white' than that...from K-12...that's pretty much all I was around...except I'm not 'white'...
But that's been years ago...
But here's what I've learned...
With 'whites'...(and that's an umbrella term)...it's more about 'culture' or 'firmilurarity' than it is 'color'....
It's about 'Americana' more so than color...
And when whites say they 'want to live around other whites'...what I've learned they really mean is 'people with my
percieved generic principles'...
In other words apple pie, baseball, hot rods, rock-n-roll, ect ect...
A certain percieved 'standard', 'model'...normality....which brings comfort.
And like a fello poster said...
'by default' whites percieve other whites as providing that value system...
As well as everyone else...even blacks...why do you think so many blacks feel they have 'made it', when they can finally move into a predominatly 'white' community?
Cause they to seek that
percieved 'standard'...
(when in truth the people in those homes, communities, could be having wild orgies and smoking weed, cocaine, meth, mob bosses, crooks ect ect)....
But the
perception of normality, provides a level of protection...steers suspicion away...
(sorry don't mean to sound like a college Proffesior)
I befriended many whites growing up from K-12...was invited into their homes, spent the night...the whole shabang....
One thing I learned is once the kids, my peers, got over the color or shade thing...I was 'one of them'....I talked like them, had the same interest as they did, hung out in the same spots, ect ect...
They would invite me to their homes...and their parents would accept me, as one of their own...cause I behaved like them...
Color never mattered...it was all behavior and or culture, firmiluarity...
To them I 'was white'...but simply had dark skin....
But again...it was a small college community...so they didn't have a lot of bad 'references' in which to build or associate 'negitave' behavior too....
No crime, no homeless, no druggies (accept for their own weed smoking kids)....
You will find unique relationships like that exist all over America, in small rural communities...at least back in the day they did when communities were more isolated.
The biggest problem facing 'blacks' today is
perception...
Negative perception...expecially do to mass media and internet and talk radio...where drama sells...
A black person today, going into a small ski town in Utah, unless already well known, will have to over come a lot of negitave perception...
And other local blacks living in such areas will be harder on you than the whites, more cold, and more distant...
Why?...cause 'they don't want you ruining a good thing for them'....
In other words...more than likely they've been there for a while...have already assimulated in the all white area...have won over hearts and minds...the last thing they want is a 'negro' from Detroit spoiling it for them by show casing stereotypical behavior and thus setting them back in the eyes of their peers...
They've spent years prooving 'hey, I'm white like you...'
So when an outsider black shows up...it's like them looking in the mirror...and they don't always like what they see...it's a reminder that regardless of their behavior...physically they're still 'black'....
And they don't want to see that....
Anyways...it's like I'm writing a thesis...let me stop....good heavens I didn't mean to go on this long...