Muscatine

I just got done reading on another message board. (HA)

 Scenerio: There is this white girl. She has 4 black friends. One black woman accuses the white woman of being racist. The white woman says "she does not see color". The black woman and some posters don't believe her.

Now! I ask you, what just does it take for a black (or any other race) person for them to believe that a certain white person is not racist?  This made me think about myself. I, personally, do not see color, but how the person is and their personality. I have black friends, white friends, asian friends, hispanic friends...etc. If you are a piece of crap, then I don't want to hang around you. It does not matter if you are white, black, asian, etc.. It seems to me that a lot of black people have more of an issue with race than whites, asians, hispanics, etc. Seems to me that black people hold a higher expectation for white peoples friendship and expect us to bend over backwards to proove our friendship. I think I tire of this attitude and tire of that stinkin race card. I think it is now a scapegoat.

Thank goodness my black friends are cool. They like to fun lovingly, make fun of whites and I poke fun at them using stereotypical black comments. All in fun and we love each other. My family is very diverse with hispanics, asians, etc.

I just don't understand why some black people set such high expectations on white people. Some people like me think: Uh, slavery was hundreds of years ago. Some of my ancestors fought and died to free slaves. I'm over the black/white thing, why aren't you. A lot of jobs qualify you to be black. Our president is black.

So, in my life, you are not allowed to lay out the race card. Ever. I love my friends and family and if you can't get over MY COLOR, then get on down the road.

P.S. I also don't think it is right that black people can call each other the n word and call us white people crackers, whitey, marshmallows, etc. but yet white people can never say any racial remarks like they do. Example: Chris Rock. (That guy is halarious, I'm just using him as an example.) It goes both ways......no racial slurs for anyone.

The colors of human nature certainly have their dilemmas to be sure.

In all my years on this earth, I can surely attest to your correct observations. I grew up in a southern pportion of this here United States, not deep south as such, but close enough. I always took note of how different things were, once arriving up here especially during those earlier visits we made to Iowa and Wisconsin occasionally. First of all , those who feel strongly about these issues please understand that I am only offering those of my observations here. I'm not espousing anything in particular. I wish to offend no one here or anywhere else, and have the deepest of respect for humanity. Though I see color, it only serves to show that I trust that folks are real and are who they are; skin color is irrelevant.  I saw first hand many of the undignified things that some black folks today seem to be emulating these continual racial tensions. I learned a good long time ago, that I will be judged by my own actions and heart, not by my ancestor's. What ever it was that any of my forefather's did or said, is not how I treat people nor hold my heart. This seems to be the trend as I have seen over these past forty or so years, since the racial revolution took hold. I watched little black girls get picked on and black boys get called some awful names and once in a while even get beaten up by several when alone, while white adults would just look away. I got to read with my own sad eyes those signs you only hear of that read- " Whites Only" I saw signs that read "No Coloreds" or "Colored Only" You rarely saw it written "Blacks" Even today that seems to be a slur within a slur. Then we saw kids get sent to schools outside their own areas. They were sore afraid and even left schools rather than face whites who generally seemed to hate that these "coloreds" were sent to dirty their schools and neighborhoods. So once in a while it behooves us all, to try and remember why so many seem to be closer to those feelings born out of that terrible time in our history, even though you nor I were a part of it. I never owned a slave, nor do I know anyone who ever did. It's not you or I, it ws others when our country was young and ill of dignity.

I watched the news reels of the black folks crying overtly after Obama/Biden won the election. It didn't surprise me in the slightest, those tears. And in some less than secret fashion, I too felt a sense of appreciation for this momentous chance to live long enough to see a man of African descent, walk the Red/White/and Blue carpet of presidential acclaim. If you give some thought to just how much that might mean to an entire race of people who's ancestors, just a few short generations ago, a mere 125 years, were actual slaves. Not that even after the Emancipation Proclamation, stood in the shadow of that shameful element of our very own history, were they truly free. That indignity lasted nearly another hundred years before the waves of true changes began to wash over the shores of an honest freedom. So with that, yes I do see that there seems to be this veiled racism still, not merely by some whites, but by some blacks that even though they were themselves not a slave, they have felt it's affects after all these years. I do not excuse it, but I do understand it to some degree.

So in agreement with you, it's time that all races dropped the history of shame and realize once and for all, that we live in a new age entirely, an age that we should finally be able to look at each other as human beings with the same goals of life, liberty, and persuit of happiness, color irrelevant. It only needs a chance and perhaps now after over four centuries, that shame can be forgiven by all.

God Bless.

You've posed some very interesting points.  I wonder if perhaps Mr. West will grace us with an explaination as to why it's okay for him to use such language here on a public forum.  He is, after all, the newly crowned king of the name-callers.

I think DF has some real concerns here. It is not easy to stay on top of what is politically correct when it seems like people are ready to pounce on every word that is uttered.

That said I don't think we can pretend that racism doesn't exist. It does.... I think the world that in which the victim of racism sees is very different than that of what others see. I would have never got anything out of the term "Hockey mom" or "six pack Joe" until it was pointed out how people of color view those comments. I don't think they were said with racism in mind..... However I can see where they'd take a step back and say "what they just say?".