One white woman said she feared that blacks would now become more “aggressive,”
While on Facebook, I got a notification from Rick Sanchez, a CNN reporter from 3-4pm ET. He linked a New York Times article, For South, a Waning Hold on National Politics by Adam Nossiter, that he wanted to discuss on his show. Basically, this article details the reality of the South, the racist reality of the Republican base that McCain and Palin promoted and protected. The reality that there are a bunch of ignorant, near-retarded, supremely uneducated, racist assholes who can't fathom the concept that someone with darker skin might be better than them.“I think there are going to be outbreaks from blacks,”
Seriously, what more do you people want from African American people? You claimed we were dumb so we got educations. You claimed we were lazy, so we worked hard. You said the only thing holding us back was ourselves, so we became business men, politicians, teachers, lawyers, doctors, and so on. But, is it ever really good enough. Today, we've got an African American president and are we, African American people, still not persecuted in many ways - lower employment rates, higher incarceration rates, and the list goes on. One man at the top does not result in total equality, obviously.“The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics.”
Truthfully, you are the remaining legacy of thieves, torturers, murderers, rapists, liars, and beasts that have wreaked unimaginable pain on a people that simply wants to be happy. But, you're pitiful idea of happiness is ensuring that others are unhappy like some twisted collective of simple-minded bullies.
The only good thing about life, in your case, is your death. It's because your sick ideology will slowly and surely die as you die. And, no matter how many generations you try to impress your evil upon, it would seem that your message of anger, fear, and false-disenfranchisement weakens with every generation.
For far too long have you people been the arrogant and ignorant center of a rotten Republican Conservative nation. The Republicans, having your dwindling racist numbers as its base, used you to further their own goals of keeping the rich rich and poor, you included, poor. But, you're too damn stupid, void of humanity, and full of hate to realize you've relegated your own being to a tool of electoral control.“over 50 percent voted against Obama for racial reasons,”
For once, the United States of America has shown some redemption and rebuke in the face of historical racism. Finally, the United States has come to a point where people can feel that maybe there is some level of equality in this nation. However, thanks to you mongrel dogs we still can not realize that "Dream" of a promised land for any of us. Because of you, this nation is continued to be held back, enslaving us, along with yourselves, to a past ideology that should have been ripped out by the roots and burned a long time ago.Poor Black Trash
And, everything I say here goes for you African Americans barely surviving in the projects who are proud of a collective vote you were probably too selfish and lazy to participate. Many of you are about as educated and intelligent as the poor white trash that voted for McCain because he was white. You voted for Obama because he was black. Fortunately, your stupidity helped this society. I hope, and highly doubt, that most African Americans even understood the Obama's or the Democrats ideology as it pertains to society. Guess what? Your shit stinks too!
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People need to smarten up. The fear factor is so played. I've never rioted or looted or went wild in the streets because things didn't go my way. In fact, I don't know any black people that have. Have some done it? Of course, but what makes white folks think all black people are planning a mass riot like we're just waiting to take them down? Don't they think we would have done that years ago when they were beating down our children, hosing us in the streets and locking us up for having the gall to sit in front of the bus? Miss me with the BS. I don't spend every waking day worried about what white people think of me, so they should stop worrying about what they think we're going to do.
this is still america
As a white boy born and raised in MS, I must say your generalizations of the South are fucked up.
Anonymous, is that really all you have to say? His "generalizations are fucked up"? I would love to take that seriously, but I cannot, not even for a second, because my mommy always taught me that cussing is that last resort of a punkass with no real argument.
This is a ridiculous article if only for this statement alone:
"Truthfully, you are the remaining legacy of thieves, torturers, murderers, rapists, liars, and beasts that have wreaked unimaginable pain on a people that simply wants to be happy."
That's a pretty sweeping generalization. In fact, one might say it's prejudiced.
I challenge you to find a single person of any color, race, nationality, etc. with a family tree entirely free of ever oppressing another person. Or being oppressed. Throughout time power shifts, people make mistakes. Serfdom was imposed on peasants, America sent the Japanese to internment camps. Small tribes in Africa made war with each other, big nations drop bombs on each other.
In everyone's family tree there is, most likely, a branch...or many branches to be ashamed of. No race or ethnicity is excluded from either being an oppressor or being the oppressed.
And everyone wants to be happy. That's not exclusive to a specific race, either.
I'm so sick of bigotry. Whether i'ts from a black person, white person, brown person, red or yellow person, it's bigotry. And that is all this article is, just another misguided purveyance of bigotry and ignorance.
So you're saying it's bigoted to speak out against bigotry? Hmmm...
How in the world did you get that anonymous said it's bigoted to speak out against bigotry in that post? I don't see that at all.
Wow.. I step out for a few hours and I come back to this..
The problem with "Anonymous" is his own guilt. What he's doing is trying to bring people DOWN to his level instead of ELEVATING his own mentality. This is how people justify their own prejudice, bigotry, arrogance, and ignorance. They see nothing wrong with themselves because in their mind everyone does it, too. What he ought to realize is that this is NOT status quo across the nation. This is only status quo in a place that's still has a 19th century mentality trapped and enslaved by their own hatred.
I also want to point out an article in which white southerners are buying up assault rifles themselves against a "race war". I have to find that article but when I do, you'll see another post.
All I know is that if we're going to elevate ourselves, we're going to have to keep this type of anger and violence from escalating.
...keep this convo going and I am going to hunt down that article.
Fear of a Black Planet.
I also saw that story about people running out to buy guns since the election, but it was on TV, CNN I think.
Anonymous implied it was bigoted to speak out against bigotry, but saying that it was a prejudiced generalization to tell the truth: that there is a segment of the white South that hasn't really changed its attitude since the Civil War. It's true. Get over it.
If Anonymous himself is not a racist, bully for him. But there is racist vitriol out there right now, the likes of which I have never seen. Nobody ever said it's all white people, but as far as I'm concerned, one is too many. It scares the hell out of me, perhaps more so because I happen to be white.
*by saying, not but saying
I didn't mean to imply that it's prejudiced to tell the truth, but it is prejudiced to lump all Southerners into one category and call them liars, thieves and rapists.
It is not prejudiced to tell the truth. Maria is right. There is a segment of the white South that hasn't changed its attitude since the civil war. True. There also is a segment that has. Also true. Some people work hard to make their way and to be lifelong students. True. Some people would rather not work so hard. True. Some people like the color yellow. True. Some people don't. True. These statements are all true and supercede ethnicity and location. Ignorance and racism are not things that are entirely unique to the South; they exist in plenty of other areas.
I think you guys are missing the crux of my argument, or even misinterpreting it, as I believe Anthony has. If you want to talk about ELEVATING your own mentality, I would suggest moving beyond making blanket statements about mass populaces. Wallowing in past injustices instead of looking toward the future is what brings people DOWN. My point is that most everyone probably has someone in their family tree that has been a victim of oppression or a perpetrator of it, black, white, asian, hispanic, etc. This is not unique to any race.
Move on. Look to the future.
Also, if you'd like to address current prejudice vitriol, I'd suggest you look no further than California's Proposition 8. Now that, my friends, is modern day prejudice right before our very eyes. What I found most disturbing about Proposition 8 passing is that a majority of the people that voted to pass it were of ethnicities that are often the victims of prejudice themselves.
Also, I am not the same anonymous that is a Southern white boy from MS. I am the same one that wrote the first long-winded retort. :)
My statements aren't blanket. My statements are directed toward racist whites as well as racist blacks if you got to the last paragraph. At any rate, if you're not one of them, there's no reason to come to their defense. If you don't know any, then why be upset with my own disgust of this violent racism (check the next blog post).
There's nothing to really retort here IF you're truly against bigotry, racism, and prejudice. Or, is it only alright to be against "supposed" racist attitudes when you're the victim of it? Either we're on the same page or not even in the same library.
Prop 8 is in a different blog, different day.. in the past but, I may do another one.
Anonymous #2, I understand your point, but I really don't think Anthony made a blanket statement. You sound thoughtful and decent, though, so I'm going to assume that you, like me, felt a little embarrassed to be white when you read this post and responded accordingly.
You say "wallowing in past injustices", but we're talking about something that JUST HAPPENED, you know?
It's not an easy conversation, is it?
not just happened.. happening because of those news articles reporting gun shops literally running out of ammo. i'm saying, we can have our prejudices, no one's perfect. but when folks are moved to violence, we've got a problem.
maria, i don't think you should be embarassed. no straight thinking white person ought to be embarrassed by these fools. what one white person does, does not relate to who you are or what you would do. the same goes for anybody especially black folk who get the brunt of such attitudes.
i have no ill will toward anyone. my point is that this stupidity has got to stop. i'll admit i am somewhat aggressive in my language but only toward those that deserve that aggression.
I know this may be a lil off subject, but I want to say this to Anonymous.
First and foremost, Prop 8 was voted against, because who in the hell with common sense would want some teacher telling their children about marrying the same sex? Second: it is written clearly in the bible (if you would read it sometime) that homosexuality is an ABOMINATION in the eyes of God, period. And I'll be damned if there were a law passed that it's a requirement for my children to be taught that being gay is okay. It's not.
Anonymous, let's get something clear: Prop 8 will NEVER, EVER in life be as equal in discrimination as Jim Crow laws or slavery... EVER! Hell, it won't even equal the millions of Jews that were killed in Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler (whom by the way was Catholic).
You don't hear of teachers in schools teaching children how to be heterosexual. You hear of them teaching them how babies are created, but not lifestyle choices. And yes, being homosexual or heterosexual is and always will be a lifestyle choice.
Now that I have that out the way, back to the subject at hand.
Racism has been the red-headed stepchild that's plagued this country since the Trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 1600's. That's a long damn time! And for you to say that Black people need to get over the past is a slap to the face. Let me ask you this: HOW CAN ONE RACE OF PEOPLE GET OVER ALMOST 400 YEARS OF BEING ENSLAVED, TORTURED, BEING STRIPPED OF THEIR IDENTITY, STRIPPED FROM THEIR FAMILIES, CALLED EVERYTHING BUT THEIR GOD-GIVEN NAMES, BEING RAPED AND ABUSED, AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST? How can one people get over it that easily? Answer: They can't.
We may not see the lynchings and beatings that our ancestors received back in the day, but we deal with a much more sinister racism: mental racism. The seed of hate is still in the minds of many white people. You may say it's not, but I bet you if you were in an elevator with a few Black people, you being the only white person. I would guarantee you would be clutching your belongings, not realizing or thinking about it, because it's a force of habit that you have picked up from your racist ancestors so many years ago.
And you wonder why Black are hostile? We are that way, because imagine being beaten by several white police officers with Billy Clubs, and they are later acquitted on trial for their racial injustice. Imagine being shot 41 times in your entire body by white officers for picking up your wallet off the ground due to mistaken identity. Imagine having your car searched, because you drive a BMW in an inner-city neighborhood, because you're Black. Imagine all of that Anonymous, and tell me if you would be hostile or not. What would you say? How would you even react?
I can simply tell you right now that you wouldn't know how to react, because you my dear, live in an institutionalized system that works in your favor called PRIVILEGE. You can go out and fuck up so bad in the world and you wouldn't even be repremanded. But let a Black man go out and do the same thing you did, they would be locked under the jail doing a life sentence for some dumb shit.
White people need to realize that they need to get their people in line in order to restore some kind of peace with other races, otherwise history is doomed to repeat itself.
Untouched Jewel,
You are the kind of person that truly scares me: a person so blind that they can't even see their own hypocrisy. Your reply comes off as ignorant, ill-informed and so very backwards and hypocritical that I don't have much of a retort. It would fly right over your head as most things appear to anyway.
Why is one form of prejudice (against blacks) worse than another form (against gays, asians, indians, etc)? Rationally speaking, it's not. But judging from your opening statement regarding the Bible (which I read before I got confirmed by my church), you are clearly utilizing an operating system that doesn't even approach rational.
So continue on your merry way with your own prejudice and ignorance. You will either eventually have to answer to it or you won't. It's not my problem.
And learn the proper usage of who/whom. It makes you look even more ignorant, if possible.
Anthony and Maria, I have enjoyed debating with you. I am going to have to focus on work now. :)
Also, I have never been ashamed to be who I am. I have never enslaved, oppressed, stolen from or committed violence upon anyone. I try to be open, fair and mindful. I had some bad experiences (who hasn't?) when I was younger that I remember every day. But without them, I would not be who I am today. So in the end, I am thankful. I try to always remember: shit happens. It happens to a lot of people. No one wants it to happen or wishes it upon themselves, but it happens anyway. Anger and hate will just keep you down. :)
Good luck!
Anon #2
Anonymous,
I'm not the kind of person you should be scared of. What scares you is the fact that your own "kind" are the ones whom have been spewing the hatred towards Blacks for centuries. And where do you get off calling me ignorant and ill-informed? Until you walk a mile in a Black person's shoes, you will never understand what it's like to be Black in America. And everything I have stated is not ignorance, it's fact. You ought to check it sometime, and get your head out of the sand and take a good look at the real world.
whoa whoa.. slow it down folks. i agree that the problems homosexuals can not compare to centuries of shit african americans have put up with in this country.
at any rate, both situations are messed up and need some common sense shoved down the mouth of racists and shoved up the ass of homophobes.
President Taurus, the recent presidential candidates Mc Cain and Palin did nothing to quell the firestorm they have started when people were shouting out that Obama is a terrorist, etc. All it did was cause them to go out and get guns! That's something we should all be afraid of, because it's this ignorance that's got southern white people with racist mentalities in an uproar. I mean, who the hell they intend to shoot, all Black people? President-Elect Obama? I'll be damned if that happens. I'm just putting it out there that racism is something white people created, and hasn't stopped in almost 400 years, and now they want to get all guilty and make it look like what Blacks are showing the "man in the mirror" is a figment of our imagination? I think not. It's time we ring the alarm on ignorance before they pass that ish on to another generation of innocence.
racism goes back waaaay before 400 years ago since europeans first "discovered" africa and encountered "dark skinned savages" although the moors were integral in the rise of europe.
in fact anyone who did not display their skin color or definition of what they considered civilization were considered savages just as the native americans were doomed with that designation.
i have to agree with you that caucasians did indeed develop, create, and engineer racism as people they've encountered were usually welcoming and peaceful. this is not something that's made up. it's in the books and novels such as In the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and other works. this is how the people of africa were characterized and demonized.
This is why I feel Anon is wrong about clinging to past injustices. It's those past injustices that help create future injustices. Our poisoned yesterday created this venomous today which only leads to more fatal tomorrow for too many people. Until we all have the balls to face our own twisted history, problems like this will still occur from both sides because we've all been poisoned with racism.
The biggest problem I've seen come out of this election has been the mixing of bigotry with political views. Since when is a bigot someone who disagree’s with your political views? If people weren't so blinded by race when discussing the issues maybe some people would realize they are actually speaking the same language. SMH
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