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I'll answer. People who have bigoted mindsets will often do bigoted things. If I see people calling other people racial slurs and using abusive language towards others, that tells me that those persons might do even worse things.
If someone got murdered (key word "murdered" as in non-negligent homicide, as in, premeditated homicide), the last thing you should be asking is "what did he do"? It does not matter. Murder is murder. To me, you asking that question just tells me the kind of mentality you have.
I judge based on what the individual presents. I don't go by best or worst. I go by what the individual does.
Good for you. Say I'm in a strange neighborhood and can approach a bunch of white guys or black guys for directions. I don't know any of those guys, they haven't 'presented' or done anything to differentiate between them, except color. I go to the white guys. I do know the white guys won't be hostile based on my race. I don't know that about the black guys. If that makes me racist, so be it.
Edited to add: otoh, if asked to choose between living in a nearby mainly black middle class neighborhood or a decrept white one, I'd go black.
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A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.
A snippet of the documentary “Rosedale: The Way It Is” has ricocheted across the internet, upending for another generation New York City’s narrative as a bastion of tolerance.
Racial tensions soared as the Spencers, a middle-class black family moved into Rosedale, a Queens white working-class neighborhood. Bill Moyers examines the fear, hatred and courage generated as the have-nots of our society battle for a tiny piece of the good life.
Anything Bill Moyers is talking about, it's nothing new to me. I've known New York City was never the bastion of tolerance many people try to make it out to be. It wasn't just Rosedale. Howard Beach had some problems. Bensonhurst was imfamous for racial tensions during the late 1980s/early 1990s. Crown Heights had alot of racial tensions which culminated into a riot in 1991.
One thing that has made me wonder for a long time is this. Some of the worst racial tensions I keep hearing about having to do with working class areas. Part of me has wondered why.
Good for you. Say I'm in a strange neighborhood and can approach a bunch of white guys or black guys for directions. I don't know any of those guys, they haven't 'presented' or done anything to differentiate between them, except color. I go to the white guys. I do know the white guys won't be hostile based on my race. I don't know that about the black guys. If that makes me racist, so be it.
Edited to add: otoh, if asked to choose between living in a nearby mainly black middle class neighborhood or a decrept white one, I'd go black.
I've dealt with racial hostility from some non-Black individuals, as a Black man. And I still keep to the "judge by how the person presents themselves" principle. There are just some places I don't go based on their reputation, regardless of what the demographics are.
Just because you disagree with my views, it doesn't make it 'snark.'
I'm just having fun. I hope you are, too.
I'm not having fun. When you claimed that I wasn't a man, that was snark right there. What you did is something an underclass thug would do. That is something someone with arrested development would do.
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