Why is accpetable for Black's to slander White's, but not the other way round?
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Jeff A, take off your pointed hood and open your eyes.\nLet's look at it from a bigger picture and ask ourselves a couple of questions.\nWhat percentage of the Global population living under the poverty line is black, asian, colored?\nNo matter how you look at it, there is a corelation between the color of skin and prevalence of poverty.\nNow, slavery and colonialism have various debilitating effects. These effects take a lot of time to heal. Every civilization in the past has at one time or the other had slaves from other conquered cultures e.g Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Nevetheless, in none of these cases has the proportion of slaves to citizens come close to the prevalence of the United States. At the height of slavery in the US, there was 1 african slave for every 4 citizen.\nIn the case of previous civilizations, the negative effects of slavery have been greatly healed by the passage of time. It has been barely a century since slavery was abolished in the US, and just a copule of decades since civil right reforms were implemented in the south. It is over optimistic, to the point of naivette, to assume that societal and racial relations in the US would be normalized after only a copule of decades.\nThis brings to mind a skit in an episode of "Family Guy" where a colonial white man removes the shackles from his african slave and says "Okay, its over now. We're cool, right?".\nIt is understandable that minorities unconsciously feel slighted about the past and wish to strike back. In roman history, an army of escaped and former slaves led the Thracean Spartacus led a bloody revolt against the Roman populace.\nIn modern US society, It is sometimes taken as a subconscious mental victory that it is politically incorrect for a white person to say "Ni99er" while black people can refer to each other that way. These irrelevant mental victories help to heal racial problems in the society.\nBeing born and raised for the first 20 years of my life in a West African country, I have the advantage of being able to look at the US society from an outsiders perspective.\nFor anyone who says that the current US society is racially fair, I ask them to research the average family income for a black, hispanic, asian then caucasian family. Numbers dont lie, but ultimately, time heals all wounds (hopefully).
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This is one of those I'll answer, hoping it's an honest question and not a goofy rant.\nWhite people can be discriminated against and it happens all the time, but can't be discriminated against in modern America for racial reasons.\nDiscrimination is NOT disliking another race...\nIt isn't even behaving badly toward those of another race...\nDiscrimination in modern America is institutionalized and has a component of POWER.  History has given whites a 'power' advantage over blacks in this country.  Whether we (as whites) choose to use that advantage or not, IT CONTINUES TO WORK TOWARD OUR FAVOR and gives us institutional and cultural edges.\nDiscrimination is the combination of the racial bias with the use (purposeful or inadvertent) of that cultural power.  Because whites HAVE that cultural power edge, they can't be discriminated AGAINST.\nWhat is frequently referred to as 'reverse discrimination' is -- if we're honest with ourselves -- sour grapes when someone else gets a break that we wish we'd gotten, whether we deserved it or not.\nNo, whites can't be racially discriminated against in modern America.
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It is the other way around. I think black people are racists to white people. They exclude themselves. B.E.T televsion for example. White people dont have W.E.T.
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In this day of age, white people can be made fun in the public eye but black people can't be made fun of because they claim prejudce. Poking fun is harmless in most circumstances. Like on the Kings of Comedy, they make fun of white all the time, but if the Kings were white men making jokes about blacks, they'd be sued. It's not fair. \nTo your question: it all depends on the person. I don't know who's more racist and I don't care. Other white ppl may not care, blacks may not care either or Hispanics or anyone. It depends on the person and maturity level.
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Let's see, a black person is seen committing a crime. Is it rational to stop white or Mexican people for questioning?\nOf course there is some rationale!!
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I am from Africa and I think the answer goes back to the old colonial days where the white man was always the dominant colour.Black africans still seem to equate the white skin with authority and submission.In the case of the States (I lived there for many years ) I would assume the same principle applies due to the slavery angle
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There is no reason for that except society's insecurities. I am talking about all around, because while I totally agree with you, I get called a cracker way too much... Would be nice for all stereotypes to dissapear because an upstanding black guy and an upstanding white guy, are both good enough to have the respect of others.
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I agree with you but for some reason some ppl believe they are above the law because of their "situation" and they use that situation as an excuse and when ppl complain about them they throw in the race card. Plllllllllzzzzzzzz
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I know I see this everywhere. Blacks can make racist comments on whites and not be considered racist, but if some white kid says something to a black kid, it would be considered racist. It's horrible. I see this often on Nick Cannon's Wild N' Out.
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Never been called for it.  But if I do I will say that no black man is guilty and all white men are.  That should get me out of it.  Even though I don't believe it, it should work.
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firstly, not all black people alienate those who "act white". There are just some people who believe that there is a certain way to act and when they think that ur not acting like how they think u should act, u will be ridiculed. our society likes to label and categorize people, and we tend to just follow right along, and I think that its time that we develop our own opinions and stop allowing society to tell us how to define others and ourselves.
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It is because other races have tried to make white people feel guilty about who they are, which is bullshit...especially trying to link the white race to the holofake.\n\nAccording to them, if you say you are proud to be white you are a racist or automatically pro-white power or even a Nazi.\n\nMy response is usually....Thanks ;)\n\nIt's strange when they call a white person "racist" but they are the ones making the judgement....i have one word for that..Hypocrites.\n\nThing is though i have found, Not ALL black people, asian people are like that, just a few fuckin wankers.\n\nI guess you just have fuckwits in every race.
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many times it is not the individual that goes by the rule, but rather society does it for them. They tend to not have a say in how they are viewed by others. As wealthy & famous as they may be, at the end of the day they are still considered a n*****! \n\nJust look at OJ & the 2 MJs (Jordan & Jackson). All of them were loved by all races. Jordan was rudely reminded of what he was when he was abruptly dismissed by Abe Pollin. No explanation, no reason, just "make sure you use the back door". \n\nMichael Jackson is quite an oddity in this. Besides him just being an oddity, he defies this whole system because it is whites who are welcoming him with open arms, & blacks who are distancing from him & chastising him. Blacks are saying "you are strange & need to change what you are doing & the way you behave". & whites are saying, "its ok to sleep with young white children that are not yours." Regardless of the intent, language and/or symantics about this case, had he been anyone else of color than who he is, they would have been in jail long before! They would have been arrested on the roumor of it. Take R Kelly for example. Would you let your under age child sleep with him? Male or female? No, you wouldnt. Not only just because it would just simply not be appropriate for a grown man to be in bed with a child, but because he does not market himself to the white community, so whites rightfully want him in jail now & blacks dont, even though they saw the video & know that it is him. (check out the eppisode on the Chappell show that highlights that). \n\nIt must be something about getting one guilty person off the hook, to justify all those who are wrongly on it. Like OJ. Everyone knows that he either did it himself or has direct knowlege of who did. But blacks like an underdog. He left the black community long ago, and was wrapped up in the white world. That came to a halt when he went against them. The probably were not too happy he got in as far as he did, by marrying in. Now he is coming out with a book & interview that the publisher is calling a confession. Whites are outraged! Blacks are like, "wow, thats interesting". Not too much noise about it on the Afro-American side of things.\n\nMichael Jacksons kids will always be treated white, so long as they know who thier daddy is. OJs kids will always be considered black for the same reason. Even though thier mothers are white.\n\nSo I feel that it is others who make mixed children choose who they are. Lets not forget what happened to Tigger Woods when he won the masters (the whitest game on earth!) & got to choose the menue for the next year. The white players were worried about fried chicken & collards being served. They did not let him forget he was part black & not part anything else.
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I totally agree.  I always say this but you have to be careful who you say it too because they'll think ur racist.  im not racist in the least. in fact, i took a black women's histor class last year at the university level and the whole year was devoted to talking about how bad the 'white man' is and i had to sit there and take it.  i think we should stop being persicuted for what happened to their ancestors.  Noone alive today was either a slave OR a slave owner so the sympathy card should stop being played.  white people can't blame their downfalls on anyone but in the opposite case, its always okay to blame white people for anything that goes wrong. I think its about time to give it a rest because the sooner we get rid of the double standard, the sooner we can get rid of racism too.
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I agree with all of you. People around the world are claiming races, people belonging to a particular religion or culture to be responsible of one-person's (or a group of very few people's) act. Why should any one blame someone else for someones misdeed. There shouldn't be even consideration of the person's race/religion/country/language. Not all the people of a particular group have same thoughts or ways to think. Not everyone acts in the same way in a similar situation.
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Finally I'm not alone! I think it is kind of racist, actually it is racist. Just think about it. A whole television network worshiping white people? It would be an outrage! Many black people would call it white supremacy. Am I right? Its ok for blacks to go around shouting "Black Power!" but a white person would be in trouble if they said "White Power!". I think its wrong that another race gets special rights because they've been done extreamly wrong. Don't get it twisted I feel really angry about slavery and segregation. But I think its wrong that Black people get off with some stuff that obviously they shouldn't. Thats just what I think.
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RUBBISH!\nJEALOUS OVER WHAT MAY I ASK?\nWhile whites do thave their pride, blacks have their pride also. Both races have earn a lot of achievements, so there is nothing of this sort.