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Rasmussen Poll Says Blacks Are More Racist Than Whites
Just as they don't get to tell me that I as a white American am at fault for their plight, not I, nor my father, grand father, great grandfather, and so on all the way back to when my family immigrated here in 1683, not one of them owned a slave.
Perfect example:
I'm coming home the other day from hiking with my dog, and decide to swing by zaxbys and grab a salad. To get there I have to drive through the parking lot to get there. An African American couple is walking across the crosswalk at a fairly brisk pace and are looking ahead, about halfway across they look dead at me and then for the other half walk as slow as humanly possible for the rest of the way.
I'd say this "I'm not going to hurry for a white man" attitude happens to me several times a week, upon speaking to friends about it they say it happens to them as we'll. I have never been rude or given or impatient with them.
Its not just a perception thing because they actively slow their pace when they know you are waiting on them, like they derive some type of pleasure from this.
Now I live in a predominately African American middle class neighborhood. None of them ever act like this and have been nothing but friendly neighbors. It is predominately the poor African Americans (at least from my experience) that behave in this manner.
Here's the problem with your argument. It boils down to "black people need to hurry up and get over the past at the pace that I approve of." That's ridiculous. Historically, groups who have been seriously oppressed hold on to resentment for generations, particularly when the people in their own generation try to shame them for feeling such resentment. The fact is, you don't get to tell black people that slavery doesn't mean much because it was a long time ago. You don't get to tell black people how they should perceive racism. That you and others think you have a better handle on how black people should feel about how racism - current and historical - impacts them is a huge part of the problem in race relations today. People have been questioning black people's feelings on racism forever. To continue to do that and not simply say, "I get it" and stop there continues the problem.
Just as they don't get to tell me that I as a white American am at fault for their plight, not I, nor my father, grand father, great grandfather, and so on all the way back to when my family immigrated here in 1683, not one of them owned a slave.
Perfect example:
I'm coming home the other day from hiking with my dog, and decide to swing by zaxbys and grab a salad. To get there I have to drive through the parking lot to get there. An African American couple is walking across the crosswalk at a fairly brisk pace and are looking ahead, about halfway across they look dead at me and then for the other half walk as slow as humanly possible for the rest of the way.
I'd say this "I'm not going to hurry for a white man" attitude happens to me several times a week, upon speaking to friends about it they say it happens to them as we'll. I have never been rude or given or impatient with them.
Its not just a perception thing because they actively slow their pace when they know you are waiting on them, like they derive some type of pleasure from this.
Now I live in a predominately African American middle class neighborhood. None of them ever act like this and have been nothing but friendly neighbors. It is predominately the poor African Americans (at least from my experience) that behave in this manner.