Double-standard Racism, lets discuss it. :D

[salem_wikkat]

When someone says "I'm not racist, but..." does it still mean the same if they are black, as it would if they are white and southern? I think it's an interesting debate since it's exactly how Jeezy starts his collaberation with Jay-Z with the track My President is Black. "I'm not racist, but I'm glad my President is Black." What's the difference of

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[shademalek]

Honestly, it is. I've seen both sides of this. I'm white, and i happened to grow up in a urban neighborhood the was very racially mixed. Being one of the few white kids in the neighborhood, I got to experience this firsthand, when the cops came to raid our neighborhood park, who were the people that didn't get bothered much at all and was the first to be let go? Me and the other white kids. Who was cuffed and searched and maybe let go after a half hour? The black and Latino kids. God forbid if any real crime happened in the area. I've seen friends get arrested because they "fit the description" of a criminal, and it never seemed to happen to me, or any of the white kids. Strange, that.

Honestly, one black man gaining the highest office, while it is a step in the right direction, does not mean that racism is over and all races have equality and that this magically gives black people the same opportunities as whites. It's a step, a small step towards true equality. Let me know when there are 43 black presidents, or Latino, or Asian, or Jewish, and then you can say we may have attained equality. Until then, we as white people have nothing racial to complain about.

[socktree]

Let me tell you internets, how hard it is to be white...

[salem_wikkat]

... And I've experienced the "arrested due to a stereotype." Sad truth is I was ostracized because I was white. Because I was a loner, I was depressed, and assumed mentally disturbed. I had my Locker rifled through by state police for weeks, forced into therapy and almost locked away. Why? Because I fit the description of the quote-unquote "Columbine Kids." I was treated as a Criminal, falsely accused because two girls were bored in class one day and thought it'd be a good sport. I still get flags when I try to apply for jobs because people have heard about what happen and they automatically go with the stereotype instead of talking to me and listening to the fact that I was cleared and proven as only a depressed white kid.

I may not be a African Man in a business suit, but I've lived a very short period of hell that comes when people go by stereotypes and that is why I do not allow them to sway my judgments on people.

I'll tell you exactly what I see, when I see a white supremecist I see a scared, sad individual. Someone whose been raised in hate and doesn't know enough to know any better. Some of these groups exist in little more than tight-nit covens on compounds and they don't even associate with whites like myself who are friends, and collegues of proud Africans, Chinese and other American groups, or non-American groups. They consider us Race Traders and you know what? They'd kill me just as soon as they'd kill any black man. They are scared people, and the only way we can reach them is through hope and love.

That's the only way we're going to defeat racism. By showing them that it isn't the status quo, and by replacing it with mutual respect. Now all this "poor white priviledge man" bullshit, yeah. Totally not mutual respect, or love. I didn't vote for Obama, but I respect him, as I would any President or Leader. Why? Because I was raised to believe America is a president who worries about all of us, not just his political party. Obama seems to be the first to really embrace that.

[shademalek]

ah, don't EVEN get me started on Columbine. There have been shootings, stabbings, etc in inner city schools for YEARS, but when it happens to be some white, suburban school the whole country freaks out and goes into panic mode.

[sixfiftysix]

Sad truth is I was ostracized because I was white.

No.

Because I was a loner, I was depressed, and assumed mentally disturbed.

Ding ding ding!

You being white had nothing to do with it. You, however, showing signs of being at-risk for violent behavior because of social withdrawal, had EVERYTHING to do with it.

It didn't happen to you because you were white. It happened to you because of your behavior and personality. People don't get pulled over by cops because they're depressed and they don't get watched extra closely in retail stores because they're a bit mopey. Persons of color, however, routinely get pulled over by cops and watched extra closely in retail stores BECAUSE of the color of their skin.

[salem_wikkat]

As stated by the Trooper who stood over me with his gun ready to be drawn, but now is a close friend, "We believed you were at risk because you fit the profile of a "WHITE, depressed Loner."

[tomecatti]

That's a rampant problem for sad white people.

[sixfiftysix]

Oh, and I believe the phrase you are looking for is "race traitor."

I mean, you're not in the business of buying and selling races, right?

[tomecatti]

Oh, man, thanks for clearing that up. I just could not figure it out.