Racism (is it still acceptible?)

[saranicole]

After years of struggling with civil rights, it would seem that American (and some other countries') culture has learned to better accept the differences among people of varying backgrounds, race, sex, etc. Television depicts people of all backgrounds interacting together and while you still have examples of horrible racism and stereotypes, studies have shown that a majority of people believe that the civil rights movement did what it was meant to do and today people are generally more tolerant and accepting.
My question is do you believe this? Do you think that we live in a more accepting world today than we did tomorrow or has racism simply gone 'underground,' only to be brought up in secret or in jest among friends who accept it? Also, do you think joking about racism perpetuates stereotypes or just allows people the opportunity to laugh at themselves and how ridiculous those stereotypes are?

Discuss

[HKK]

People who think others are more tolerant and accepting are generally white and don't know what the fuck they're talking about because they rarely have to deal with racism in the first place. Yes, people *are* more tolerant and accepting, but not all, racism is still here.

Racism is still out there, but they primarily conceal it and act like it's not racism. Often times if you're a minority, you know that there's a difference in behavior simply through every day tasks, such as walking on a street or in a building. Being black, many people think of me as a thug probably, but whatever it is, I get certain looks at the places I go. Many of these people get these observations and biases through tv (which to me is indirect racism since it creates false stereotypes on certain groups - see minstrelsy). This creates false beliefs on certain individuals. I am not good at come backs, I'm not *that* athletic, I'm not loud, and I can honestly admit that I am not funny. If I'm not acting like a dumbass ignorant nigger with a do-rag, then I'm not black. If I say that the current state of Black America is ridiculous, and that we need to stop worrying what crackers think and do things our own way, I'm not Black. Little dumb ass niggers act like they hate how they're always stereotyped against, and how white people hate them and such but always act like hoodlums, fucking BET doesn't play conscious/intellectual hip hop because it doesn't sell, generating a stereotype. So yes, there is racism, but there's even more racism and discrimination in our own groups.

But beyond that, there are other forms of discrimination in the form of aid and (especially) the education system. I have inner city friends who went to 75-80 years old High Schools, in a location where they never build new schools, but over here in the suburbs just 30 miles away they continously build schools/planning to build schools for the sole excuse of "overcrowded schools". Most of these people are 10-20 years behind comepared to the education I was able to get, and while this will happen at times (as in, certain schools being better than others), I find it no coincidence that this same precedure happens at pretty much every major city in America, especially places like New York or LA.

Crackers want to get rid of affirmative action, lol, those crafty crackers. They know that the funding to inner city schools is low as hell, that the students that attend them are behind in education, but they say that affirmative action isn't fair. lol The purpose of affirmative action is to undo previous acts of discrimination. Even though affirmative action makes one wary of things such as race or sex, it also helps these people 10 x, because you know those cracker males wouldn't want to hire/accept women, niggers, or wetbacks. California's ban on affirmative action is an example of this, because minorities aren't accepted as much as before.

Oh noes, those niggers are tryin' to be smurt. Ban affirmative action, it's not fair! We crackers haven't had enough chances yet!

I hate people who act like racism is gone, as if the people who were still alive and hatin' 30-40 years ago are dead. They pass their behavior to their kids and the cycle continues. lol @ the civil rights movement ending discrimination. Only white people say that, and the minorities that do are cracker wannabes.

Notice: if you think that my use of racial terms is offending, fuck off. Don't take it seriously. It's people like you who give those words their power in the first place. Also take notice the occasional use of sarcasm.

[Doom]

i think every nig should strive to be like clarence thomas

[HKK]

The real nig is Bill Cosby. Everyone knows this.

[Renge Ishyo]

Things have come a long way in mainstream business and politics in this regard. No matter how talented, do you think a black woman would EVER have had a chance to work directly under the president as Secretary of State in say the 1800s? No way.

Having said that, racism still exists of course (especially socially in lower class groups). Saying it's gone is like saying fear is gone (since being racist is usually a way for people to bond together by attacking differences in others, hence...this behavior of "us vs. the enemy" is a popular theme for many "group things" for the "masses" in society besides racism, things like religions attacking other religions, sports with fans of one team attacking other fans, etc.). However, politically we've come along way (as well the country should, it isn't like America has a dearth of people willing to study, cooperate, behave well, and work for her succes; if you find those types of people, it shouldn't matter what race they are; sign them up ).

[HKK]

I especially like it when people say racism is gone when during the 9/11 days, people attack and harass people of middle eastern decent. Pitiful.

See?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1173100

"But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," said Bennett, author of "The Book of Virtues."

[Questionmarktarius]

The real nig is Bill Cosby. Everyone knows this.

Well, I was going to chew down your longer post, but it appears you do have some sense after all.

[HKK]

oic, chew it down if you must, but it's certainly not that far from the truth as much as it is my life experience.

[Damien]

I could go on forever about this but for now I'll just make one point: America seems quite far behind Britain in terms of racism and equality.

[HKK]

Don't forget Canada.

[Mitsurugi CP]

The real nig is Bill Cosby. Everyone knows this.

Well, I was going to chew down your longer post, but it appears you do have some sense after all.

While you may think HKK's arguments don't make much sense, he's not that far from the truth.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1173100

"But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," said Bennett, author of "The Book of Virtues."

Wow. What a stupid argument. Even though statistically, the majority of crime in the US is committed by blacks, this in and of itself is a consequence of racism and the subcultures that have developed from it. He might as well have said that we should kill babies in families who are at or below the poverty line, and you'd have the same result; being black has nothing to do with it.

As far as racism in the US, I think that there are two major factors that contribute to it: The first are people who maintain racial bias through simple ignorance and those in power who make it difficult to allow a more even distribution of race among different levels of society. The second are black demagogues like Jesse Jackson who do not look to promote racial equality as the Civil Rights movement did, but instead create further division between races by crying racism everytime something bad happens to someone who just happens to be black or by calling for preferential treatment. (the paradoxical "Stop treating us differently, stop treating us the same" stance so many demagogues seem to have adopted)

The ultimate cause for this is just faulty cause and effect logic. In the first case, let's use the former Sec. of Education: Saying that being black makes you prone to committing crimes is like saying that wearing huge pants makes you fat. In the second, there is a tendency to rely on the same faulty logic too much before researching what happened. In Louisville, it seems like everytime a black criminal is killed in a shoot-out, the 'civil rights' demagogues say it's because the police were racist, not because the police were returning fire or acting in self defense, which actually turns out to be the case.

There are thousands of different reasons why racism exists, but if you take everything and break it down to their most basic levels, it's a result of people who have power who don't use their heads on both sides of the spectrum. In this case, I use the most obvious example of racism towards blacks, but this model can be used to explain just about every other situation where racism is a prevailing problem.

[HKK]

Turns out the media pretty much warped what he said. But still, coming *Bush's* DIRECTOR OF DRUG CONTROL, I wouldn't really trust a thing he says anyways.

Here:

First, our top story tonight is the controversy surrounding radio talk show host Bill Bennett. Yesterday on his radio show, Mr. Bennett -- Dr. Bennett was quoted as saying. I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you cold abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down...that would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

The comments have drawn criticism today from Senate minority leader Harry Reid who said he was appalled. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy who called them racist and from House minority leader Nancy Pelosi who said they were shameful. Bill Bennett joins us now in an exclusive interview to talk about these comments.

Dr. Bennett, we appreciate you coming on tonight.

DR. BILL BENNETT, MORNING IN AMERICA HOST: Thank you.

COLMES: Might give you an opportune to put them in context and explain.

BENNETT: Sure. Well, the context was a radio show that I was doing yesterday, and the topic was abortion and we were talking about bad arguments in regard to abortion. A caller suggested he was opposed to abortion because he said if there were more babies there would be, eventually, more tax payers and a larger GNP, a smaller deficit. I said you want to be careful with that kind of argument because someone could postulate a situation where child's not likely to be a productive taxpayer. I said, arguments in which you take something that's far out, like the GNP and try to connect it up with abortion are tricky. I said make the case of abortion on the basis of life and protecting life. I said abortion is invoked in another way; you could make an argument that if you wanted to lower the crime rate, you saw the quote; you could practice abortion in very large numbers. You could do it in the black community; you could do it in other places. This is, by the way, the subject of a book for economics by a professor at Yale.

I said, however, if you were to practice that, widespread abortion in the black community or any other community, it would be ridiculous, impossible, and I appreciate you putting it on the screen, morally reprehensible. So I think morally reprehensible, when that is included in the quote makes it perfectly clear what my position is. A number of the people whom you have cited as condemning me have not made the inclusion of that remark, and so they make it seem, Alan, as if I am supporting such a monstrous idea, which of course I don't.

COLMES: Here's my concern. The root cause of crime, one would debate, it seems to be poverty. And from your remarks, I wonder if people might interpret it as saying the root cause of crime is race. And that debate about is it race is it poverty? What really is the root cause? And race affects people of all races and creeds and I think that's why...

BENNETT: Poverty. Poverty affects people of all races. Let me tell you what bothers me first, because I'm always candid with you. What bothers me is that last night on your radio show, you were all over me, Alan. And, you know, I was really surprised. You know me, you've known me for a long time and the fact that you would give credence to the notion that I would believe such a thing is very disturbing. I've had 1,000 opportunities when people have said to me what about that Alan Colmes, isn't he a jerk or a liberal this -- I've always said he's always a gentleman, he's nice to me. I run a radio show in which we don't yell at people, we don't make fun of them. We have liberals and conservatives and we deal with sensitive and important public policies issues and we do it in a responsible way. But people need to follow the argument and the argument I was making here is entirely plausible. The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. And we've been talking about all these things lately in the context of New Orleans and other things.

COMES: Let me talk to you...

BENNETT: There are real things in the real world, and there are people who believe we should take such monstrous steps.

COLMES: Let me talk about what I said on my radio show.

BENNETT: I do not.

COLMES: Dr. Bennett -- Bill, because you know, I do consider you someone -- we've been good to each other. I like you. I think you respect me.

BENNETT: Yes sir.

COLMES: I was really shocked.

BENNETT: Have been.

COLMES: And I plaid what you said and the whole context of what you said. Frankly, I was just shocked by it. I don't believe you're a racist. I don't think that you believe those things. I was just shocked by what I heard and I -- basically there was a lot of callers calling up and commenting on it after I played your comments. And a lot of other people were shocked that you would have -- in the context you said it, say the things you said.

BENNETT: Well, you know, to put forward a hypothesis, a morally impossible hypothesis to show why it is morally impossible and reprehensible seems to me is a standard way of talking about public policy and a standard way of teaching. You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time. People have said such outrageous things, Alan, about race and this is not unknown to our history. It's certainly not unknown to our history -- to the history of Europe, recently. It's not unknown to the history of Islam. And what we have -- you've got to be able to make an argument and say look, you may be thinking you're going to achieve some good end, but you can't use a monstrous means to do it. You know, this is like a Swift's modest proposal for people who remember their literature. You put things up in order to examine them. I put it up, examined it, and said that is ridiculous and impossible no matter who advances that idea.

COLMES: All right, we got -- Sean will be with you in the next segment. There are some statistics, you know, that talk about how African- Americans are treated disparagingly in the criminal justice and, you know, we could debate whether or not there really is a greater prejudice against African-Americans and whether they are incarcerated disproportionately.

BENNETT: Yeah.

COLMES: But look we got to take a break and we'll continue with you...

BENNETT: Those are big complicated questions...

COLMES: And later, there more political fallout on Capitol Hill today over the indictment of Congressman Tom Delay. We'll take you behind closed doors to one of the most powerful members in the House.

And then Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, says the suffering of hurricane Katrina has actually brought black Americans together. Is he using the crisis for his own political gain? You don't want to miss this.

And FEMA made a hasty deal in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and it's costing taxpayers $236 million. We'll get to the bottom of this shocking story coming up on HANNITY COLMES, tonight.

(NEWSBREAK) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: And this is a FOX News Alert. You are looking live at the hills of southern California where wildfires are blazing out of control and are threatening to destroy private residences. We have 3,000 firefighters working at this hour to control the blaze, but as you can see from these live pictures, they're still burning pretty hot. We're gong to keep you updated throughout the hour. We'll bring you new pictures as we get them and let you know as this developes. We hope they can put that out. I was out in southern California in Hope Ranch when this happened. It is devastating.

Also coming up tonight, now that Tom Delay is out House majority leader, at least temporarily, will issue like immigration reforms, spending on the federal level will suffer. We're going to ask one of the men who is stepping into part of his leadership position.

And there is some late-breaking information tonight about the man who is prosecuting come to Tom Delay. Is it a publicity stunt for a movie being made about him? We'll tell you about this tonight.

First, we continue with the host of Morning in America. Bill Bennett is back with us.

Bill, first of all, I have known for you many, many years. I know your faith, I know your character, I know who you are. You're a former secretary of education, former drug czar. This notion that Bill Bennett as is being alleged by prominent democrats has any racist bone in his body is appalling to me.

BENNETT: Yeah.

HANNITY: And I'm glad to hear you say what you said here. I want you to respond to those democrats that are grandstanding, the same ones that had Robert Bird, the former Klansman as their leader. The ones that didn't speak out about Congressman Wrangle's Bull Connor remark.

BENNETT: Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's see, you got Kennedy. I will -- I'll not take instruction from Teddy Kennedy. A young woman likely drowned because of his negligence. I'll take no moral instruction with him. That's much worse than legal gambling what Teddy Kennedy did. He should make no judgments at all about people. He shouldn't be in the Senate. As far as racist and all this other stuff, I'll put my record up with Howard Dean, with Harry Reid.

When I was drug czar, you bet, we were working on the issue of black crime, Alan and Sean, because there was a lot of crime in the black community. And you know who most of the victims are? Their black people. Yeah, black violence -- black-on-black violence is very serious. I went to about 120 inner city communities. That's where the senate wanted me to go, that's where the Senate wanted me to go, that's where I wanted to go. We went after public housing and we went after the bad guys. And you know what? We got the bad guys. And drug use went down. And we raised the price and lowered the purity of cocaine. And we arrested four of the most powerful drug dealers in the world. And got a lot of these guys off the street. And I am very proud of that. Because when we went into the inner city black community, the people said to me, Mr. Czar, or Czar, or Mr. Benet, you get those people off the street and protect us. And we did our best to do it.

Before that, when I was secretary of education, I took on what I think is one of the great civil rights issues of our time, which is educational opportunity and educational choice. The stupid ghettoized curriculum we have, the fact that these black kids go to lousy schools and aren't allowed to choose the schools of their choice because they don't have the money and don't have the opportunity.

I've been at this for 25 years and I have been called everything in the book, but I will stay at what I do because I believe it.

Let me just tell you, when it comes to abortion, my wife's program, best friends, has kept more young women from having abortions because they don't get pregnant because they take her good counsel...

HANNITY: Let me...

BENNETT: Than the entire black caucus. She has done more for inner city black girls than the entire black caucus. So I will not bow my head to any of these people. I will not give up the ground of compassion and sympathy. But I'll tell you, we have real issues and we have got to talk about them candidly. And if you don't think there are people who are making draconian proposals about abortion and this and that and the other thing, you know, you don't know the nature...

HANNITY: Let me ask you this. I want to ask you about the nature of debate in this society.

BENNETT: Sure.

HANNITY: I go back to the Bill Maher issue. I don't like -- I don't even like Bill Maher. We disagree on just about everything. But Bill Maher said one statement and his entire history of support in the military was cast aside and people focused on one thing. I said wait a minute, that's wrong. Here's Bill Bennett, here's Trent Lott. One statement, there's no room to apologize, explain, put into context, revise or extend one's remarks because people want to hop on it. We now see the democrats trying to do right now with you and trying to put you in a position of characterizing you, or categorizing you as something you are not. What does that tell you about debate and free speech in the country today?

BENNETT: It's bad. You know, if you could do an analysis -- it would be interesting to do an analysis. All day I've been reading reports and statements by people about me, Sean, and it's interesting, some use the whole quote and are fair, some don't. And that tells you something. But the problem, I think, on the liberal side, the democratic side is they attitudinize, they condemn but they don't have a program.

You know, the president -- I hope the president pays for this program in New Orleans, but he's got a program, and it's some interesting ideas about enterprise zones and school choice, and giving people opportunities, you know, with the loans and the green lining and they ought to be tried. Because these are ideas that might actually help the poor as opposed to maintaining the welfare state, which does not help poor people at all. It's destroyed a lot of families and it has created circumstances in which more poor people and more black people have had to suffer. What's lifted, the economic life and reduced crime in the black community has been hope and opportunity and education and enterprise.

HANNITY: Let me ask you one last question.

BENNETT: And that I think is much more, I have to tell you on this side of the aisle, I want to politicize this because there are good people on both sides.

HANNITY: Explain. I want you to explain, though, for people that see that one quote, that read that one quote, what do you say to them?

BENNETT: What I say to them, Sean, is if they were given the impression that I, you know, am in favor of such a horrible idea as, you know, my critics are suggesting, they need to look at the whole quote. I don't believe that. And I'm sorry that people have misrepresented my views so much that that has given folks that impression. You're right about a person's life. I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

One must be very careful one gets into these arguments and we try to do it. But, you know, we try on this show to do serious and controversial issues. And it's a big country and it's a free country. We don't put liberals down. We don't put people down with whom we disagree. We talk about serious things in a serious way. And if you're not allowed to talk about these subjects, then it's not the country it's supposed to be.

You've got to be able to condemn these horrible ideas as I did.

HANNITY: Bill Bennett, appreciate you being on the program.

BENNETT: Thank you. Thank you guys.

HANNITY: Thank you very much.

[Lord Golbez]

i think every nig should strive to be like clarence thomas

Hate you so much right now!

The point with that guy's comments is that the media is so biased in favor of abortion, that they will intentionally take anything they can get and pounce on abortion critics. That's reason enough though that he should have been more careful than to say something like that.

[Damien]

Don't forget Canada.

Forget what?

[Renge Ishyo]

The point with that guy's comments is that the media is so biased in favor of abortion, that they will intentionally take anything they can get and pounce on abortion critics. That's reason enough though that he should have been more careful than to say something like that.

His statement was made as an absurdity in order to prove his point. For example, I can say with complete confidence that if ALL of humanity was killed then the crime rate on the planet would go down (guaranteed). Does that mean that you can actually go ahead with my advice as a "plan" to reduce crime rates? No, and this guy was apparently saying the same thing. The point is that he was saying that you CAN'T solve a problem by thinking with just things like numbers, you have to deal with it as a problem that won't go away. His major mistake is that he said the "B" word specifically and therefore "he's racist and NEEDS TO DIE!" Lol!

Of course the media is taking him out of context because they see a political opportunity to exploit, and that's much more important these days than reporting unbiased news. The media in the USA is leftist propaganda mostly (except for Fox which is err...rightest propoganda, hence the rebuttal posted above no doubt came from Fox and not a leftist media source), and who expects propaganda to be truthful?

Speaking of which, the left here in the USA is a an interesting animal when it comes to racism. On one hand, it is mostly their push throughout the 1900's that has led to advancing opportunities for people who try hard regardless of their race, which is good On the other hand, many times it is the left that attempts to stir the pot so to speak by pitting people against others or even society itself in order to achieve political gain for themselves by exploiting or even encouraging racial hate (like what you see them doing above with this Bennet guy), which is very In a way, in terms of racism here in the USA, the left is both the solution (since they push for equality) AND the primarily cause of our race problems (since they need to emphasize inequality in order to create the need for their "push" to continue). It's a somewhat disturbing and simultaneously fascinating thing to notice.

[Joei]

nigredo likes curry club

[Renge Ishyo]

"Beat Dazzler?" LOL! I guess your next rank is "Gold Pants", huh Joei

[HKK]

nigredo likes curry club

I LIKE CURRY!

[Last One]

I like to surprise people by telling them I'm Mexican

Have a nice day

[Bazz]

I like to surprise people by telling them I'm Mexican

Have a nice day

Woah, my hiccups are gone

[Joei]

"Beat Dazzler?" LOL! I guess your next rank is "Gold Pants", huh Joei

nope

[Doom]

kneepads, y 2 take me serious

[Lord Golbez]

I didn't. That's why I said "right now." The effects of a joke are temporary. If you were serious it would be permanent.

[Doom]

but jokes are supposed to make ppl happy

[Lord Golbez]

o.

[Garbo]

Acceptable.

[Jeff 2G6]

I'm not racists. I just hate everyone that doesn't act the way I think people should act.

[Selma]

I hate niggers.

EDIT:

I'm not racists.

Lol. You're not more than one racist? Maybe just one?

[Mitsurugi CP]

kneepads

I haven't seen that insult used in a long time, not since what's his face.

[Lord Golbez]

Really? I guess I've gotten so used to it, I don't even notice if someone calls me Golbez or kneepads.

[HKK]

I hate niggers.

That hurt my feelings! I was hoping we could hook up! You don't like black cock?

[Kage]

Racism will always be around as long as color is fashionable.

[Jeff 2G6]

All you nigs, crackers, chinks, gooks, spics, and whatever else need to stfu and bring me a beer.

[Selma]

I hate niggers.

That hurt my feelings! I was hoping we could hook up! You don't like black cock?

You're getting me mixed up with Joei.

[Cybernetic Empire]

kneepads

I haven't seen that insult used in a long time, not since what's his face.

It's a term of endearment. Kinda like calling crackers "white bread".

[HKK]

lol it's always hilarious when i'm walking down a street and a white person is walking with their kid and they see me and like pull their kids to other side of the street.

this happened yesterday. it was pretty fun i guess!

[Vibing_V]

You're a monster!!

Yeah I remember walking along the sidewalk in Japan and having the occasional old woman stop what they're doing to stare at me until I was well out of range... it was amusing.

[Asaroth Larot]

A lot of people don't actually realize they're prejudiced.
We're all prejudiced against something somehow. It gets ingrained in us too hard not to happen to us.

I conciously don't want to be prejudiced against any race, but I cant help but feel a bit disturbed around black people for example. Maybe not afraid of them being thugs, but more that they'll just fly off the handle for some random reason and get in my face. Same thing for black women too. The media makes every black woman out to be a neurotic selfish loud unreasonable super bitch. I dont want to deal with that.

[HKK]

I love Black women but I know a lot of Black women like that. If something's on their mind they will say it and won't give a fuck what you think. My mom is like that. Ofcourse, it's still a pretty bad stereotype. I know plenty of Black females that aren't like that at the same time.

Well you can blame the media for the way Black people are "supposed" to be I guess.

[Asaroth Larot]

I was surprised to learn you were black. You always struck me as an immature white kid honestly back when you first showed up years ago

[HKK]

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Am I now an immature black kid?

[Asaroth Larot]

Nah. You see the thing was. If I remember correctly your screen name is a tribute to the poster himurokenshin. Idolization, especially of him, didnt seem very mature.

[Plaztik]

[HKK]

Nah. You see the thing was. If I remember correctly your screen name is a tribute to the poster himurokenshin. Idolization, especially of him, didnt seem very mature.

I was just joking with that idolizatoin thing.

However, my nick does come from the name Himura Kenshin. It's the main character from an anime called Rurouni Kenshin.

[Damien]

Nah. You see the thing was. If I remember correctly your screen name is a tribute to the poster himurokenshin. Idolization, especially of him, didnt seem very mature.

I was just joking with that idolizatoin thing.

However, my nick does come from the name Himura Kenshin. It's the main character from an anime called Rurouni Kenshin.

NEVAER!

[Cybernetic Empire]

What's an anime?

[HKK]

Nah. You see the thing was. If I remember correctly your screen name is a tribute to the poster himurokenshin. Idolization, especially of him, didnt seem very mature.

I was just joking with that idolizatoin thing.

However, my nick does come from the name Himura Kenshin. It's the main character from an anime called Rurouni Kenshin.

NEVAER!

lol well considering the fact he took me seriously..well...just had to clarify it.

[HKK]

I consider myself lucky that I’ve never really dealt with racism out side of the internet...I'm one of those little town blacks that didn't even know he was all that different until the real world hit em' I had great friends (mostly white) and enjoyed child hood very much. As I’ve reached adult hood however, I slowly began to notice things like the word nigger being used online... and the true feelings people had when confronted with a race that is not their own... Ignorance is the easiest way to describe it...As far as I go, I can truly say that I harbor no hate to any race. If I hate you, it's because you’re an asshole. Period. I don't think people should use Words like Nigger, Chink, Cracker and spic. The bottom line is they're hurtful...if they weren't, people wouldn't retaliate when they were used. I challenge people everyday to look beyond race just by saying hi when someone crosses my path...if people were more open with each other instead of being so self-absorbed the world would be a better place...

I agree to an extent, but the way I see it, it's people who are scared of those words that give those words their power in the first place. They're only words. They can't hurt you. If someone calls you a nigger, shrug it off. I was exactly like that about 2-3 years ago, when I noticed people here say nigger pretty much all the time. It's because I was raised the same way you were, I had lots of white friends and thought were equal, then once I began getting closer to the real world I saw the truth. The only difference between me is I'm not going to take you seriously if you call me a nigger. Call me what you like, I don't mind.

And I never knew you were black. Halo thar.