Racism Dialogue

[RSK]

Perhaps, but I'd just as soon see them slither back under their rocks. Then again, I feel I am entitled to my anger - three children I know personally were victims of a racist man who went and shot them in a community center because they are Jewish.

i'm sorry to hear that. i can understand your anger. sometimes, as hard as we try, things just don't make sense...

...and perhaps, they just arn't meant to.

[Rosebud]

I agree with the posts above, racism is wrong and it bothers me tremendously. I grew up with soem family members being very racist and it still to this day sadens me.

I also had a situation that was reversed though. I used to work for a major publishing company awhile back and I was in charge of the customer service Dept. I had an employee that I had to let go because of her attendance and her language to the customers. After she left, she filed a suit against myself and the company saying she was fired because she wasn't white. I have no idea how she got that considering we hired a wide range of people. But in any case she was using the racism card to get what she wanted and that wasn't the case. Needless to say, nothing ever came of that!

[Late_vamp]

My dear LV Friends, what I’d like to ask you is whether you see the world around you acting this way? And how do you respond to that? Have you been guilty of a general statement like that and why? What happen to make you realize you have to change?

1st Q ; yes i do , actually , most ppl like that are "white" and come from the US ( no effence but its true)

2nd Q : i ignore it because i wont go as low as they are to insult based on color or what they eat ( beaner , chink ) , and if they do push it (start physically doing something or yelling in front of my face ) , then i release all of it and if theyr in front of me , i just let my fists do the talking .

3nd Q: no , if i do its because i only do it as a defence thing i dont go up to ex: white ppl and call them "damn cracka , go back to yo trailer , ya white trash cabron de mierda "

[bluesummer]

Having grown up in a very multicultural city, and in a racially tolerant family, I have a tough time understanding racist people. I do meet them from time to time. For instance, my bf's family, before they met me, didn't like white people because they thought they were all stupid, lazy, and hated anyone who wasn't white. Yet, they'd never interacted with a white person. So I couldn't understand where they were getting this from.

I think a lot of people become racist because they hear someone else make ridiculous comments about a specific group of people that they know nothing about, so they just assume that that's how they are. I can't believe how mindless some people are!

[whaywardj]

...NOW, when they see an African for the first time, they don't know how to react - some people NEVER see black people there. And when they DO, they take out there Anger on them..IT IS TERRIBLE!

Well, first RSK, your racist acculturation is coming through. Since when are all Africans black?

Second, though difficult to believe, you're right. There are still some people in the world who have never seen a real-live (fill in the ethnic blank) in their lives. My first wife told me she was 19 years old before she ever saw a black person in real life. She was born and raised in Linz. As in Austria.

[misombra]

Hm. I pretty sure, rather than abstracting the incident into a generalized question of racism out there in The Great Wide Open, I'd personalize the hell out of it and ask myself why I would subject someone I loved to such a friendship.

i agree with this post. if i were sergio i would be so offended. you need to dump this friend. or keep her around so when i go visit i can have a little talk with her.

[Kiechi]

"Racists don't cause racism. multiculturalism does"

[indigosoul]

Space aliens. Thats what we need. Nothing like a good planetary invasion to make us realize that we, HUMANS, are essentially the same.

Seriously, with globalization, these issues are becoming fewer. Think how many of you are products of "mixed race/ethnic" partnerships. Though whether the concurrent loss of ethnic diversity is a good thing, I'm not sure. It would be nice to have both: tolerance AND diversity.

Case in point: my 6 year old son goes to an "ethnically diverse" school (god, I hate being PC). Anyway, we think its important for a number of reasons. So far, he doesn't seem to even realize the concept of racism. He does recognize irrational behaviour, but hasn't really connected that w/skin colour, difference in faith, etc. The other children just ARE and we are content to have him think like this. We happen to think the fact that we don't watch television has helped a lot in this, BTW.

[Only-virgins]

Mexicans need to stop having so many babies.

[artyemi]

i agree with this post. if i were sergio i would be so offended. you need to dump this friend. or keep her around so when i go visit i can have a little talk with her.

after that incident, i have stopped asking her to hang out with us. the dynamic of the friendship just became weird.

we both still felt that maybe she wasn't exposed enough. she is puerto rican, and made a similar remark about dating a puerto rican. "i know, i stooped that low."

?? and then, what about those of us who engage in making fun of our own culture with our friends for joke?

[artyemi]

Having grown up in a very multicultural city, and in a racially tolerant family, I have a tough time understanding racist people. I do meet them from time to time. For instance, my bf's family, before they met me, didn't like white people because they thought they were all stupid, lazy, and hated anyone who wasn't white. Yet, they'd never interacted with a white person. So I couldn't understand where they were getting this from.

I think a lot of people become racist because they hear someone else make ridiculous comments about a specific group of people that they know nothing about, so they just assume that that's how they are. I can't believe how mindless some people are!

I think these mindless people who become racist are a little better than people who are mindful of their racism because there's hope that once they become mindful, they'll realize the need to change. However, the people who know for certain about how mindless they are and yet still choose to make that same statement, that's unforgivable.

I said this because when i was a kid in elementary school, I was very sheltered in an asian culture. I hated that black kid or that spanish kid or that white kid. Anyway, it was ignorance. I didn't really know many out of the culture and those I knew always, always made fun of us and thought we were Chinese and always got into fight and they were constantly taunting us and asking us if we knew karate. Of course, what I'd realize later was that they weren't just what their race was. Education.

[Tone]

Mexicans need to stop having so many babies.

And more white people need their asses beat.

[artyemi]

Mexicans need to stop having so many babies.

OV needs to start having sex. Or have you already?

[Junsui]

And more white people need their asses beat.

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[Lloyd95]

P.S. - All of my siblings and myself ended up marrying racial or religious minorities. Our family now looks like a rainbow, and this generation is WAY cool, and our children are gorgeous and smarter than the prior generations!

:-)

Anyone marry an Oriental (yet)?

Hard to believe everyone here hates racism; either this is the most politically correct forum ever, or y'all are lying!

I, personally, am not racist; I hate all minorities equally.