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Racism!!!
- Thread starter *Lost Angel*
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polexia, it's ok.. I have often said that myself, a few time to their face if it wasn't from my husband stopping me mid cussing. So I take no offence don't worry. And it's sad to see something as outdated as racism spreading instead of going away. I know there are misconceptions about the muslims now, and it's a shame things are suppose to be better now, it just seems to me people have found a new race to hate, and have not really stopped the hate.
Woah, Faithy, I'm so sorry that you married into that! I was wondering though, how much Indian is in you? What all are you made up of? I have just noticed that we are a lot alike and I also have Native American in me....but I also have a ton of Irish and German in me as well as a little Spaniard...I'm a mut and proud of it...what about everyone else?
Frenchy Faith
WMMWM *poke* :)
I'm french french & hopelessly french 🙁
I'd like to have so much different roots as u guys.
And bout the Musilms it's so true, but if ppl took time to speak with some intelligent musilms ppl, they would discover that they r both same, with so interesting point of vue, even if it's different ones
I'd like to have so much different roots as u guys.
And bout the Musilms it's so true, but if ppl took time to speak with some intelligent musilms ppl, they would discover that they r both same, with so interesting point of vue, even if it's different ones
I add up to a little under a half, I am part Choctaw and part Cherokee, I am also German, Scottish, and a bunch of little slivers of things, but those are the main ones. I always say I am a Heinz 57, mix of everything, lol. I am also proud of what I am, I mean why be ashamed of what you can't change. And even though at time I think it would have be easier to lie about it to my husbands parents I am glad I didn't because their ridiculous preadjust against me over my being mixed only made my husband see how absurd the whole racism thing was, and for that I am proud and glad.
.:Fred+Spike:.
I LuV Josh
ana8
Missing you....
I'm in 1/8 German and some of my classmates didn't know bout that till this very day when we had Knowledge about Society and we talked bout rasism...I never knew that people I know can be so stupid- as I was leaving my class I heard one of them called me Nazi....
polexia
always been barely alive
ana8: that is so mean beyond words... god, i think that your classs mates needs an hour with me cos i canb tell them what a nazi is! man!
faithy: i'm glad your proud of yourself!! everyone should be proud of themselfs!
i don't know what i am. my mom tells me that her fathers mother was part gipsy, and my granma thinks she might be part gipsy from somewhere way back in the fam line, but that is like way back on bothides if there is any thing!.. (which could explain the dark colors that runs in my fam.. and why people keep thinking/asking if i'm norweigan or where else i'm from LOL this one thime this old drunk asked me if i where a gipsy and if he could marry me, he was like 60...)or else, i think we're just very norwegian, my fam is mostly form the lower part of norway!
faithy: i'm glad your proud of yourself!! everyone should be proud of themselfs!
i don't know what i am. my mom tells me that her fathers mother was part gipsy, and my granma thinks she might be part gipsy from somewhere way back in the fam line, but that is like way back on bothides if there is any thing!.. (which could explain the dark colors that runs in my fam.. and why people keep thinking/asking if i'm norweigan or where else i'm from LOL this one thime this old drunk asked me if i where a gipsy and if he could marry me, he was like 60...)or else, i think we're just very norwegian, my fam is mostly form the lower part of norway!
ana8
Missing you....
Faldor
Anarchist
Originally posted by *Lost Angel*
my dad has more money than that bitch and she has no right to be talking like that. Me and my brother grew up in private schools and my mom is a lawyer and my dad is a national representitave of his company.
LA, i take it your pretty pissed off when you made this post. but you can not claim to be a better moral person just because your born into a rich family. being open minded makes you a better person then this bitch but if you can't make out your a better person there her or me or anyone because your parents have more money.
going around clearly stating your a better person because you have more money makes you just as bad as her.
polexia
always been barely alive
Faldor: i think she ment that the woman who was speaking like that had no right to say that mixed people are junkies and poor! not that because she has money she is better than the bad bad woman! i think that LA ment it as: my dad is mixed he's not poor! not as a i'm better way...
Jacklyn
Now a Scapenerd too...
I agree...Faldor you misread, though I understand where the confusion was.
As for me, I HATE racism.
Picture going to an all-black (and unfortunately mostly prejudiced) school in the Bronx when you're a white kid and being told that all white people should be put on a boat and then that boat should be sunk....After going there for three years and getting hit with constant comments like that, I came out a little prejudiced myself. I was 14 years old and believed that people of any differing ethnicity would hate me because I was white.
When I got into high school, I met my future hubby and my two best friends (all Puerto Rican) as well as my future sister-in-law (black) and I realized that not everyone was all about race.
Looking back now, I realize how amazingly sad I was to think that race was so important!
Also, when you have a sister who is a lesbian and you are bisexual you face alot of discrimination-I've heard the argument that we are abominations and I've got an argument for all the people who use the Bible to perpetrate their own made-up beliefs. Yes, the Bible said that men should not lay down with men and women should not lay down with women, but on the other side of that coin, the bible also says that women shall be eternally subserviant to men-take that, all you female anti-gay activists in the world! 😀
Okay-I'm done with my rant 😉
As for me, I HATE racism.
Picture going to an all-black (and unfortunately mostly prejudiced) school in the Bronx when you're a white kid and being told that all white people should be put on a boat and then that boat should be sunk....After going there for three years and getting hit with constant comments like that, I came out a little prejudiced myself. I was 14 years old and believed that people of any differing ethnicity would hate me because I was white.
When I got into high school, I met my future hubby and my two best friends (all Puerto Rican) as well as my future sister-in-law (black) and I realized that not everyone was all about race.
Looking back now, I realize how amazingly sad I was to think that race was so important!
Also, when you have a sister who is a lesbian and you are bisexual you face alot of discrimination-I've heard the argument that we are abominations and I've got an argument for all the people who use the Bible to perpetrate their own made-up beliefs. Yes, the Bible said that men should not lay down with men and women should not lay down with women, but on the other side of that coin, the bible also says that women shall be eternally subserviant to men-take that, all you female anti-gay activists in the world! 😀
Okay-I'm done with my rant 😉
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Allycat
Guest
Face it, I'm a male, I'm tall, I'm christian (well I was baptised)I have blonde hair, blue eyes and an Arian background, Hitler coulda picked me as a perfect specimen. So I don't really know much about racism first hand.
Discrimination, yes, I've had a lot to deal with ppl rambling on my my (to them) unsure sexual orientation. Like whatever, I don't mind it, they're dumb, I'm not, so it kind of makes me feel superior, 'cause I'm not discriminating. (paradox much?)
Discrimination, yes, I've had a lot to deal with ppl rambling on my my (to them) unsure sexual orientation. Like whatever, I don't mind it, they're dumb, I'm not, so it kind of makes me feel superior, 'cause I'm not discriminating. (paradox much?)
Lorne The Host
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My point of view:
Racism is discrimination, using skin color or race as an excuse, that's the problem with it, they are basing judgement on someone else only based on one attribute, which is race. Isn't hating racist people the same?
Let them be racists, it doesn't bother me that people think in different ways, that's the whole point of having free will. Sure, now peole talk about violence acts and crap, but that is not 100% derived from racism, non-racist, non-whatever people can be guilty of the same.
It is as simple as this: people mocks you because X characteristic you have, if you get offended you are practically agreeing with them, by saying "I know x-charac is inferior, and I'm ashamed of it" If you get offended, you may need to check self-steem issues or anything.
If you don't get offended, it's only because you know that they are wrong, and are perfectly ok with yourself.
Racism is discrimination, using skin color or race as an excuse, that's the problem with it, they are basing judgement on someone else only based on one attribute, which is race. Isn't hating racist people the same?
Let them be racists, it doesn't bother me that people think in different ways, that's the whole point of having free will. Sure, now peole talk about violence acts and crap, but that is not 100% derived from racism, non-racist, non-whatever people can be guilty of the same.
It is as simple as this: people mocks you because X characteristic you have, if you get offended you are practically agreeing with them, by saying "I know x-charac is inferior, and I'm ashamed of it" If you get offended, you may need to check self-steem issues or anything.
If you don't get offended, it's only because you know that they are wrong, and are perfectly ok with yourself.
Originally posted by ana8
I'm in 1/8 German and some of my classmates didn't know bout that till this very day when we had Knowledge about Society and we talked bout rasism...I never knew that people I know can be so stupid- as I was leaving my class I heard one of them called me Nazi....
Like reading an exerpt from my own life...
In 8th grade we were studying the Holocaust and someone said something nasty about Germans in general and I said that that wasn't fair. That there were good Germans that risked their lives trying to help those that were being 'hunted'. They started getting all huffy and called me a freggin' Nazi and THIS girl that was once a shy wallflower came unglued. It was nasty...
My Great grandpa watched his father get murdered by Indians from another tribe I guess. And who knows why...
I guess hate doesn't bother splittlng hairs. It just consumes. It doesn't care if you hate other races, religions or sex...the only way to be above it is to be completely content with who you are. No one can take that away unless you let them by making you feel inferior or by hating back. Man this is depressing...
*Lost Angel*
NYA! NYA!
I didnt mean to brag or anything!!! I was just trying to get the point across that not all mixrd people are drugies or poor troublemakers. Im sorry if I said something wrong.
I somewhat get what you're saying Lorne the Host. Most violence originates from hate and the hate comes from different reasons. Its alright for people to have their own opinions, but it's not right when they affect others negatively whether its racism or not. Plus, people consumed with hate just hurt themselves.
About being offended only if you know yourself that something is wrong with your X-characteristic, I don't agree on. I'm perfectly proud of my mix background, but if some woman told me that I was polluting the white race and was a drug addict... I'm not gonna lie I'd be offended, though I wouldn't get down about it or dwell on it.
About being offended only if you know yourself that something is wrong with your X-characteristic, I don't agree on. I'm perfectly proud of my mix background, but if some woman told me that I was polluting the white race and was a drug addict... I'm not gonna lie I'd be offended, though I wouldn't get down about it or dwell on it.
*Lost Angel*
NYA! NYA!
I was thinking about what she said. "stick to your own race" I thought to my self. What is my race? the lady thought I was white butt still. I dont realy have a race, nor my brother....We are neather white nor full chinese so what are we exactly, what catagory do we fit in?? I mean i shouldnt realy care but now when I think about it its not making any sence.
Should I feel lost?
Should I feel lost?