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Yeah, and alot more bring up race just due to inability to move on with their lives and stop thinking the rest of the US owes them something. As far as i'm concerned, black people have had it alot easier than several other races/groups throughout history. Stop whining.
You mean its been one or two generations at best and we are supposed to forget already!
You obviously don't have much interaction with black people because I do not know a single person that feels this country "owes" them anything...if u met a couple odd balls good for you.
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And the whole "what are these negro's doing in my neighborhood" mentality goes both ways. Try walking around harlem or the bronx if you're not black.
And its just as stupid for them to act that way as it is this guy.
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A person's first impression of another is made by how that person looks. That's the way it works. If you walk into a rich neighborhood, whether white/black or both, dressed like a fuggin' cryp - Then expect to get looked at funny. The same thing happens to people with physical deformations, retardations, fat people, crazy people, etc. But when it's a black person getting looked at funny, it's racism.
A black guy with a durag on riding around in his car bumpin rap music could be a "thug" to you. To me, thats just a regular old black person. Why should they have to change who they are just because a few uppity people think they are bad based on looks alone. And no, its not funny...
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Now the question is, is it really a stereotype/racism, or an image that alot of black people have made for themselves? Look around you man...the most famous black people in the world portray themselves as "gangsta's." Rapping about who they've shot or how many times they've been shot, how much drugs they used to sell and how rich they are now. Hell there's a shootout outside hot97 every other week here in NY! You mean to tell me Fifty Cent is a model black citizen?
And alot of black people have not made this image for themselves. The ones that do, well that is just their environment...and the famous ones exploit the image because its what White America wants and it sells. That does not reflect black society as a whole.
Should I pick out a bunch of drugged out rock guys and blame them for a bad image of white america? They certainly do not reflect whites as a whole...
The bottom line of this thread is that what he said was wrong, period and it damn sure is not my fault or anyone elses fault he thinks that way.
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Last edited by ZetecNinja; 03/22/05 07:53 PM.
