It sounds like a modern Apartheid designed to keep European Americans out of a certain area.
Everyone should be free to have access to any public areas. That just fair. No one should be intimidated.
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Racial Microagressions
- Thread starter Joe Nerve
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It sounds like a modern Apartheid designed to keep European Americans out of a certain area.
Everyone should be free to have access to any public areas. That just fair. No one should be intimidated.
I've noticed lately more than ever how much the news media shapes opinions...there was a period where every third story was about a hot blonde teacher who had relations with a middle school student. Then every third story was a husband who killed his wife. After the new pope was appointed, every third story was a positive religious one. Soon after the Trayvon Martin case was over, every third story is about black kids being violent
Tony, it's racist statements like this that create a separation between peoples.
While you are entitled to your opinions I am entitled to be offended by such comments.
People are individuals Tony. Start looking at them in this manner and I suspect you'll have a more fulfilling life.
It sounds nothing like Apartheid, get your head out your ass. When these intimidating black guys require all white people in the area to carry a pass book with photo ID, and pull over and arrest you every couple of weeks purely to mess with you, then you might be able to use that word.
This kind of stuff sells newspaper and other media.
This doesn't mean you have to buy.
Look around for a better grade of media. May I suggest BBC from Britain or Al Jazeera. And there are better papers available.
your posts certainly suggest that you feel threatened by (a) specific group(s). your reply to the "parking lot" post was ambiguous at best,.. but was also tinged with race and sexism left to the viewer to decide. i simply referenced afew of your earlier postings and found myself "lol-ing" and then feeling compassion as an after taste.
also,.. i never said you advocated hatred of any group! this, as well as my other response concerning you only implied that i believe you are paranoid.
sorry if i mis-interpreted!
You can be frightened then while I'm embarrassed to admit that I have no clue what Stormfront is, unless it's in the context of a weather forecast.
This is wise advice. May I suggest taking this advice into consideration next time you feel the need to assert how grateful Mexican Americans and African Americans (groups) should be for all that European Americans (group) have done for them.
Or to not-so-subtly suggest that there is a rash of racially motivated violence perpetuated by African-Americans (group) against European-Americans (group)
your posts certainly suggest that you feel threatened by (a) specific group(s). your reply to the "parking lot" post was ambiguous at best,.. but was also tinged with race and sexism left to the viewer to decide. i simply referenced afew of your earlier postings and found myself "lol-ing" and then feeling compassion as an after taste.
also,.. i never said you advocated hatred of any group! this, as well as my other response concerning you only implied that i believe you are paranoid.
sorry if i mis-interpreted!
No problem. Let's move forward in peace and harmony.
You'll be surprised at the variety of websites available for the more esoteric tastes.
I have to admit an absolute lack of knowledge about Stromfront. But the interweb is a lot like Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything you want.
Try to find something prettier than this sounds like.
maybe it's just me,.. but as a black man from a mixed heritage (ain't we all), i have little to no problem with the "Storm Front" format. i believe in "pride of oneself" as well as national, ethnic, and religious pride. sure, there are extreme white pride individuals on this particular sight. yet,.. as i browsed the different threads, people seems generally well grounded in their stance enough to be critical in response to ridiculous behavior. there were people "proud to be white" scolding people who "were proud to be racist". BIG DIFFERENCE, IMHO.
Haha...I can't promise... I must admit I only "wikipedia'd" it. I tried going to the actual site, but it's blocked here at work.
maybe it's just me,.. but as a black man from a mixed heritage (ain't we all), i have little to no problem with the "Storm Front" format. i believe in "pride of oneself" as well as national, ethnic, and religious pride. sure, there are extreme white pride individuals on this particular sight. yet,.. as i browsed the different threads, people seems generally well grounded in their stance enough to be critical in response to ridiculous behavior. there were people "proud to be white" scolding people who "were proud to be racist". BIG DIFFERENCE, IMHO.
Perhaps. As a Scot (as in, born here, Scottish parents, spent all my life here) I find it funny when the white pride crowd claim Celtic heritage. Good luck with that over here.
What bugs me about Stormfront, and white pride, is the belief that somehow it is being eroded away. Sorry, but white culture has had complete cultural hegemony in America, and Europe. A little erosion here or there will cause no damage. The whole premise is "we must hold on to our culture, because minorities want their voices to be heard too!!!!".
Your post would be clearer if you filled out your profile to say where "here" actually is. Just a suggestion.
oooh,.. i see what you're saying! i can understand that over the decades of us having pro-black groups to support advancements of our youth and elders in the wake of slavery, sites like "SF" may indeed restore pride where it maybe lacking. so often the phrase, "white pride" is automatically associated with racism, IME.
i have heard my white discuss guilt for their ancestor's transgressions, which i think is bad. i feel or share no guilt when a black person behaves badly! it's embarrassing sometimes, though, lol.
i have heard my white discuss guilt for their ancestor's transgressions, which i think is bad. i feel or share no guilt when a black person behaves badly! it's embarrassing sometimes, though, lol.
Same here
White guilt seems like a silly attitude, because it changes nothing. It may say "look, we're suffering for our previous actions" to minorities, but I doubt the minorities care! it doesn't change anything. "Father, I have confessed my sins, see ya next week!". Much like Feminists don't want to hear about the guys that stopped watching porn to try and kill off the porn industry (and demand we all hear about it on their stupid Ted Talks videos). Incidentally, Ted Talks is something white people should feel guilty for....
White guilt is one thing, but the privileged that comes with being white is another. Just by being white you will be treated in a certain way, purely because you are the epicenter of a society that just happened to be built off the back of aggressive imperialism and slavery by white people. There is an element of 'serving your own' endemic to every culture I'm sure. However I feel that western culture has taken this to the most ridiculous, insidious degree, and pretended that everybody benefited in the process. The only reason the British went and made a mess of India was to keep a manufacturing industry ticking over back home; invent a market if there isn't one!!! White guilt would consist of me sending money to Indians and not caring what they did with it because I did "the right thing". White privilege would be me realizing that a 24 year old guy in India has to work three times as hard at whatever they do to be in with a chance of being in the positions I may (or may not) have coasted into over the years.
Two sides of a fairly similar coin I feel.
White guilt is one thing, but the privileged that comes with being white is another. Just by being white you will be treated in a certain way, purely because you are the epicenter of a society that just happened to be built off the back of aggressive imperialism and slavery by white people. There is an element of 'serving your own' endemic to every culture I'm sure. However I feel that western culture has taken this to the most ridiculous, insidious degree, and pretended that everybody benefited in the process. The only reason the British went and made a mess of India was to keep a manufacturing industry ticking over back home; invent a market if there isn't one!!! White guilt would consist of me sending money to Indians and not caring what they did with it because I did "the right thing". White privilege would be me realizing that a 24 year old guy in India has to work three times as hard at whatever they do to be in with a chance of being in the positions I may (or may not) have coasted into over the years.
Two sides of a fairly similar coin I feel.
I don't see any of that. But that's just my take.
I have to wonder about the "here" thing. It really isn't sounding like the US. Could you clear things up a little bit there?
