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your sentiments. What you have said was what I was trying to say in my comment. Good
posted by
Tanga
on September 21, 2006 at 11:45 AM
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the truth is
people are still racist - just not in public. we all say things in our houses to each other - everyone does. i had a black guy at the grocery store ask me "what do you people do with those little red potatoes". i said i bake them and why are you asking. i know that he probably meant white people but i just walked away. it's everywhere. i have 3 kids - i would "prefer" them to be heterosexual and marry within their race. but that is my preference. whomever they chose is their business - i will love them just the same.
posted by
ladychardonnay
on September 21, 2006 at 5:58 AM
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Hi
Thanks for the post.
I agree with your statement.
I am so sick and tired of not just the racist people, but also those that are so trying to be political correct that they are starting to be a pain in the ass.
My view...if you are white you are white, if you are black you are black.
I am not going to think more or less of you, because of your skin color. But if I do detect that you are sensitive about these issues I will automatically double-think my words to you and at the end of the day doesn't that make me really racist because I am now treating you as different than what I would treat people from my own race group.
posted by
NewSevenStars
on September 21, 2006 at 2:28 AM
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Pondering on Racism
I don't know what it's like over in the US, but here in the UK we often seem to go from one extreme to the other. My dad is embarassingly, offensively racist - he makes Alf Garnett seem like a tolerant person. I know he takes a kind of perverse pleasure in spouting his racist views to his grandchildren - he does it to my young niece and nephew, right in front of my sister, and when she berates him for it he just laughs at her. It's enough to make me seriously worry about the effect it might have in the future on my baby son Calum - where I live the culture is very diverse, so it's highly likely that a lot of the horrible things my dad says are going to be indirectly encompassing Calum's schoolfriends and neighbours, which will certainly upset him and me.
On the other hand, we have so many Politically Correct 'guidelines' floating around that even mentioning a person's racial origin at all can seem like a minefield. If I have to describe a friend to someone it seems the potential for 'getting it wrong' and causing offence is huge. Do I describe her as 'Asian' (which is a bit broad-spectrum and therefore possibly offensive for a start)? It can also cause offence if you call someone of Indian origin a Pakistani and vice versa - although none of the above are relevant to my friend geographically speaking anyway as she was born and raised in Essex. But if I think "Well, hey, maybe it's not relevant anyway," don't say anything at all and just tell someone she has dark hair and brown eyes and is about medium height, etc., when they come back to me later they invariably say "Why didn't you tell me she was Pakistani/Indian/Asian? Do you have some sort of PROBLEM with it or something?" <Sigh> No, I don't...but it sure seems like a lot of those politically-correct folks have....
posted by
Maerahn
on September 21, 2006 at 2:19 AM
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