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To Be White is to Be Racist

haymarket said:
It is also very stupid to deny that racism exists and is a present force in the lives of many African Americans.
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I'm sure some African Americans experience racism.

But I had a guy I work with, well, not actually directly with, but we work for the same company, recently tell me that I couldn't understand the "soft racism" many African Americans deal with in America today because as a white man I've probably never been mistaken for a custodian or an administrative assistant at our place of employment because of the color of my skin.

And I'm sure that this guy isn't the only African American who perceives such and asinine and completely irrelevant thing are a significant slight and a substantial obstacle to "true equality".

If someone accidentally mistaking you for a janitor is as bad as it gets then you're an idiot, not a victim of "racism".
 
TheGoverness said:
High schooler records teacher’s racism lecture: ‘To be white is to be racist, period’ | EAGnews.org




I guess we're all just inherently racist. Every single last one of us.

But seriously, why is it that we have to answer for the sins of our ancestors?
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If true, this teacher should be fired immediately. What an idiot.

But as to your question: well, it rather depends on how close we are to the damage left by our answers, regardless of guilt. At this point, I think anything like affirmative action needs to stop looking at race and look instead at socio-economic status.

However, it wasn't always the case. I imagine our elders have a better perspective. To us, legal segregation was the law of the land in half the country, but only a couple generations back. To an 80 year old, it was real in their youth. It's really not that long of a time. AA made sense for quite a while because regardless of whether you were a racist in 1970, you would be incredibly dishonest were you to pretend that in 1970, the black community did not face very serious disadvantages after a few hundred years of slavery followed by another hundred years of virtual slavery, in half the country.

Maybe things are better in 2016, but, that question you asked wasn't always valid.
 
Jack Fabulous said:
Oklahoma is an "at will" state. I'm not sure if the teachers union has carved out some sort of exemption to that but in most cases the employer can fire you at any time.
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Oh... my comment was more an attempt to bash the Union than to be a valid argument.
 
OrphanSlug said:
This was a predictable conclusion of using racism as a means to talk about racism.

Saying "to be white is to be racist" is racist and it solves absolutely nothing. BLM itself started to go down that route before backing off and clarifying the intention of the statement.

The answer to the OP's question is of course no, people today should not be apologizing to others today where none of us were around for all of these injustices. We are continuing the divide for no other reason than to say divided today using yesterday as the reason.
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BLM is a racist organization that also supports race terrorism. The very name declares black racial superiority over all other races. Their actions are very much in line with terrorist acts.
 
TheGoverness said:
I'm white. That is why I said 'us', meaning us white people. Not everyone on the face of the Earth.
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That is what us means... it means everybody. You were not clear. That is acceptable.
 
Note the absence of Liberal to Very Liberal posters in this thread.

Somebody's guilty. :lol:
 
11Bravo said:
I've been joking around a lot on this forum since I returned home from my deployment. When you're overseas for a while your humor gets darker and it's not as funny to civilians when you return home, so I'm going to answer with my true opinions and stop the "racist" wisecracking.

-Slavery in the United States was an abomination. It was one of the darkest times in our history and African Americans, even to this day, should understand that they were not treated fairly, or even human (4/5th's a human according to our government back then). I truly feel bad for their ancestors. The issue I have with "white guilt" or "reparations" is that millions of white Americans are not decedents of slave owners, or decedents of 1800's Americans at all. My family legally migrated here from Italy and Ireland in 1919. My family had no play in slavery, and in fact, my great grandfather was recruited to help build railroads when he moved here from Ireland, with the promise of a small plot of land and a paying job. He didn't receive that. How is my family responsible for any guilt, or especially any reparations for the wrong doings of people that lived thousands of miles from them?

I feel no guilt for my race or my ancestors. It's 2016 and we should all be responsible for our actions as Americans, and not use blame as an excuse for a handout. My family came here to be hard working Americans in the early 1900's to build a better future for our family. That's what the United States was build upon. There's no reason to feel guilty for that.
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Greetings, 11Bravo. :2wave:

Well said! :thumbs: I believe that a lot of us had grandparents, or even great-grandparents, who arrived here through Ellis Island in the early to mid-1900s from not only Europe, but all over the world. We never had slaves - most immigrants were escaping serfdom back then by coming to America!
 
DVSentinel said:
BLM is a racist organization that also supports race terrorism. The very name declares black racial superiority over all other races. Their actions are very much in line with terrorist acts.
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Not quite where I was going with this but... okay.
 
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