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Racial Microagressions

#463
kohntarkosz said:
That would make sense. 'Reverse racism' as another phrase that, when I see it, usually drags all the legitimacy out of an argument.

"I couldn't get into university because they gave all the scholarships to minorities. Reverse racism!!!!". :rollno:

I think both phrases basically boil down to people not wanting other people to ever have a bite at the apple. When it comes to equal rights, I often see those at the top whining about when it will be their turn to get more rights. "You've given homosexuals and women more rights, when will you start caring about us straight men again?". Some people are just hard-wired with a whole chunk of privilege blindness. In fact just mentioning the word 'privilege' would get you branded as a member of the "PC brigade" in many quarters (including my Grandparents' house, but that is for another time)....
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Reverse discrimination may be due to someone being passed over because of a quota system, based on race or gender (or, both). As long as they reach the quota, a White person might not get the job, even though they're better-qualified. Happened to a friend of mine and the woman who got the job didn't last long because she was seriously unprepared for that position.

Also, I think more discussion about the definition of 'rights' and 'privilege' needs to happen, very soon. Some people talk about rights, but they think these rights apply only to those like them, not all. IMO, if there's no intention for it to apply to everyone, it's not a right.
 
#464
macaroni tony said:
It's times like this I wish Bill Burr were a bassist. I find his views of racism and race relations from a "white guy's" perspective equally insightful and hilarious

Man, I am a little envious. The fact that I am black, and that my father was adopted make it very difficult for me to find out much about my own lineage. And I think stuff like that is cool.

Again I say, I'm a little envious. Stop oppressing me! :(
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Well, someone in the family started compiling information in the late 1800s and, even though many of his conclusions and info were wrong, it laid a good foundation for those who came after. I had no idea of how extensive the info was, or even of its existence until the night my dad died. My brother and I kind of bumped around the house for a while that afternoon and we ended up at a table in the living room, where they kept their Bible. Inside, was a sheet of paper with info about someone and I remember reading it when I was in grade school, but I thought it had been lost. Turns out, my mom (it's her father's side that came here first) had created a folder full of other info in the file cabinet and with this paper, was a photo of my great-grandfather. I had googled the last name and found info about people in New England, back to the 1600s, but I remember only the ones in the Midwest and Plains states. That night, I found a link to ALL of the current info, from someone who turned out to be the family historian.

My brother was adopted and he eventually found out who his parents were. I never knew my dad's parents- my grandfather was gone 7 years before I was born and my grandmother had several strokes around the time I was born, so it wasn't like she was able to communicate well. My maternal grandmother died when my mom was 9 and because it was during the Depression, my grandfather couldn't see a way to care for the three kids who were at home, so he shipped them off to others. Knowing who he was didn't keep me from having bad feelings about the fact that he pinned a $5 to my uncle's sweater and put him on a train to California when he was only 3 years old. My mom was sent to live with her mom's half-sister and her family. To hear mom and her cousin talk about that period, it was the best time of their lives. It wasn't, but they made the best of a bad situation. Some of the stories were hilarious, though.

If you have ANY clues about where he came from and/or any relatives, use google, even if you only have a few hints. If you know that they were members of a particular church/parish, you may find something. Curious- how old are you?
 
#466
BawanaRik said:
Except for Micheal Jackson I doubt many people choose their skin color.

And with every possible respect here the number one decider of your life is possession of a Y chromosome.

With 90% of he people jailed being guilty of possession of a Y, which as you stated they didn't choose. It beyond me why anyone would look at anything else as a burden in this world. But this is just my observation.
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Michael Jackson didn't bleach his skin because he wanted to be White, or white. Did you know that he had a connective tissue disease than caused his skin to become blotchy, with light patches? He did that to make the color consistent. It's not specific to any "race", either. My friend has the same condition, to a lesser degree and he's White.
 
#468
1958Bassman said:
Michael Jackson didn't bleach his skin because he wanted to be White, or white. Did you know that he had a connective tissue disease than caused his skin to become blotchy, with light patches? He did that to make the color consistent. It's not specific to any "race", either. My friend has the same condition, to a lesser degree and he's White.
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It wasn't just skin tone. That person was undergoing the human equivalent of terraforming.
 
#469
1958Bassman said:
Last time I gave a ride, I was heading back to a job that needed to be finished and he came up to my van just after I got in. I said I was on the clock and needed to go, which was true, and he thanked me for my time. I started to leave and saw that he was having trouble walking and it looked to me that he was either in pain or has some old injury. I couldn't let him keep walking and when he offered money for my gas and time, I declined. I just didn't feel a need to be paid for that.
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Hitching rides used to be a workable form of transit.

I don't think it's even viable anymore.
 
#471
1958Bassman said:
Michael Jackson didn't bleach his skin because he wanted to be White, or white. Did you know that he had a connective tissue disease than caused his skin to become blotchy, with light patches? He did that to make the color consistent. It's not specific to any "race", either. My friend has the same condition, to a lesser degree and he's White.
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+1

A guy at my job has the same condition. He used to be brown skinned and slowly turned almost albino. He's really sensitive about it.
 
#473
1958Bassman said:
Michael Jackson didn't bleach his skin because he wanted to be White, or white. Did you know that he had a connective tissue disease than caused his skin to become blotchy, with light patches? He did that to make the color consistent. It's not specific to any "race", either. My friend has the same condition, to a lesser degree and he's White.
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That's all fine and dandy. Doesn't explain all the plastic surgery he had done though...
 

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