If someone hates Blacks!

I read in the Times that people against racism don't so much love all races as hate whites. The same goes for animal rights activists, they don't love animals, they just hate humans.

 

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The problem with your thinking here is that you are generalizing; why do you hate all whites?

You should judge people on an individual basis based on mutual respect. Judging someone for a reason like skin or hair color indicates irrationality as there is no valid basis for your dislike.

 

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what if phobic-like behavior is introduced? say a person is traumatized by someone of color. would it be irrational for that person to fear others of that race?

 

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Is there any evidence of such?

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So if I hate everybody that makes me a defacto racist?
Guess I'd be sexist, ageist and down on the disabled to boot.

Sounds silly to me.
Dee Cee

 

No but you would be lonely, I think

 

Everyone's racist.

This argument is pretty stupid because everyone does it. It doesn't matter what they say (or are made to say), everyone is inherently racist.

Adolf Hitler was racist.

Nelson Mandela is racist.

Martin Luther King was racist.

Your grandmother is racist.

Now let's talk about something else.

 

'cmon you really dont know? they would be a miserable bastard. too rapped up in labels (racist) clouds judgement.

 

White monopoly on racism is a lie handed down through generations, fostered by those with the mentality of cub scouts sitting around a campfire.

Schleeberhooorst is right though, to some degree the beast lives inside all of us.

As far as animal rights activists i would say there is much truth to that satement.

 

Alex,
You are white.
Do you hate yourself?

 

back to the questio i asked earlier...
is it racist if one group of people can call each other what began as a racial slur but others can't? and why if a black person calls a white person a cracker does nothing happen but if a white person calls a black person a nigger is it bad?

 

Calling a black person "Nigger" was always seen as a derogatory term meant solely to demean, oppress and control blacks.
To take that power away from whites, blacks claimed ownership of the term.
If your master beats you with a whip, take his whip away from him, and he can no longer beat you, therefore he can no longer be your master.

Furthermore, “Nigger” is based on the Latin word “Niger”, meaning black.
Since there is nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about in being black, someone calling you black should not be offensive.
In fact, it can very well be a term of camaraderie - especially when people have a common ground of being oppressed.
Oppression breeds strength through perseverance. Common oppression breeds camaraderie.
You are brothers in arms fighting against a common oppressor.

However, when used by whites with the intention of it being an insult or derogatory term, then it is, of course, wrong because the point was for it to be offensive, so why should they not take offense?
It all comes down to intention.

Does that help clear it up?

 

By the way, nubianconcubine...
I am curious.
Are you a black woman?

 

i am mulatto. do you know what that means?

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and i understand that using any insult with the intent to insult is bad. but what if you have that one token white guy? why can't he say it without risk of trouble? that's what i meant.

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Blacks have earned ownership of the term.
They have paid for it with their suffering.
Whites, on the other hand, have no right to it.

 

so in essence that one token white guy will never be able to share in the relationship as much as the other black guys because he's white? what i mean is, if only the black guys are allowed to say it to each other it seems it would somehow strengthen the bond between them. prohibiting the white guy from saying it would seem like an exclusion.

 

Yes.

You mean the white guy that hangs out with a group of black guys and wants to be part of the group and have all its privelages, such as referring to the other members of the group as "my nigga"?

That is a privelage that he has to earn and has to be granted by the group, and often times it is.
I am white and spent most of my time growing up with blacks.
They used to always refer to me as "my nigga" but I would never call them that, because I saw it as a sign of disrespect, even though it would have been OK with them.
I felt I hadn't earned it (see above post) and it would be disrespectful for me to use without having earned the right.
I considered them brothers, but we were not brothers in arms with regard to that struggle.

 

...i must say i like you and i very much like the way you put that. i have to agree.
my brother and i grew up as opposite as two siblings can get. i went more toward the retro, outcast, white group while he drifted off toward the thugs and gangstas. however, more times than not, his group of friends accepted me as i was than my friends would accept him. when i look back on it, i find that i think of them with more fondness than i do my own group.
it was strange at first because there were rules that i had to learn and i railed against them at first. but as time went on i learned them and the structure of the relationships. it's not exactly having to "earn the right". it's learning the rules of engagement.