one part you forgot to mention in your hypothetical situation is that the black guy only called him a cracker because the cop shot him in the leg for taking his wallet out to get his lisence. Haha, im kidding there ofcourse, but it is different because the n-word has an actual history, with a lot of strong emotions attached to it, cracker isn't offensive at all.
We just had a gangfight at our school yesterday, but over here we don't have many mexicans or blacks. It was a philipino gang against the micronesians and samoans. Meanwhile I was at the other side of the school, and only caught the tail end of it when everyone was being arrested. I was kind of pissed off because I heard it was pretty entertaining.
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i was mates with the only asian kid in my school, but everyone was mates with him really. i went out with a chinese girl years ago who was so much nicer than anyone else there. hell! my godfathers black! probably the only one in the area and everyone loves him
man its like someone planted a racial equality tree near the resivour and we're all feeling the inter racial love
Ahhh... racism. Where do I start?
At school a lot of white kids like me cop racism from the Lebanese, Greek and Italian kids. But naturally that isn't racist because we're white.
A lot of people think that John Howard should say sorry for the mistreatment of aborigines and the stolen generation. These are things that happened in the past and had nothing to do with Howard, so why should he have to say sorry? It would hardly mean anything anyway.
I think it's the same with reparation payments in America. White families payin Black families money because, in the past, the Black family was enslaved by the white family. It doesn't make any sense. It reminds me of an argument I was having. Apparently, black people are allowed to be racist because 50 years ago we were racist to them. That's unfair, the young people haven't copped any racism, but they think they have the right to dish it out.
The best way to end racism is to start fresh, not 'affirmative action' or 'positive discrimination'.
The thing that pisses me off about racism is double standards.
For example i'm not allowed to call a person of ethnic decent (Asian, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or whatever)any offensive name or discriminate against them in my own country in the native language of my country, being English, YET they can say whatever they want in their own language, which I don't understand, which could be 10 times worse than anything I have to say.
I have a friend who's part Malaysian, and he says the racism me and my mates have and the things we say about other races ain't twice as bad racist comments as what some of his Malaysian relatives say about us. But we get our arsed kicked if we do say any of this stuff and it's heard by others.
Go fuckin figure I say!
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malaysia rocks. think i might have said but im quarter polish and half welsh, there seems to be a lot of people from north who'se grandparents are polish. probably because of WW2
I think a lot still needs to be cleared up with racism. In my area, there are districts where 90% are asians, and then some where there are none. Racist attitudes thrive on both sides because of the seperation. One guy, or nobhead I should say, once told all "pakis" should be kicked out of Rochdale because "all they are is taxi drivers". Try telling that to the asian engineers, businessmen etc! But then again one asian guy called me a white bastard for days on end, so one day I cracked and called him a black bastard. The result? I get seen by the headteacher for racial abuse.
I think there needs to be improvement on both sides. Many asians in Rochdale usually stay in their own districts, speak Urdu and don't try to make white friends. Then again, many white people don't make Asian friends either. All this can be sorted by bringing children up in a mixed atmosphere and being taught to respect each other (something my parents did, thank god). Only then will people not see colour.
Political correctness really doesn't help either. Things like pandering to the wishes of Abu Hamza and other terrorists who want a mosque at the cost of several million... great, no problem with that, as long as you build churches and synagogues etc. for the prisoners of other religions. But do you think they'll do that? The dogooders have absolutely no common sense, and are probably the most destructive of all in terms of race relations.
I'm not far from Newham (a London borough where less than 50% is white) and different races get along with no problems. However, recently there's been a gang that call themselves the Paki Panthers (you might want to put a Z or two in there to sound like a rood boy, innit) and go about mugging/assaulting people and threatening to drive out all whites and blacks. It's certainly not representative of all Pakistanis living in the area, it just happens that there's a group of tossers who want to cause trouble, but do you think the police are going to run after them in a hurry? It's about time they got their priorities sorted.
Just like 'nigger', 'cracker' is one of those once specific words that is used in a general term these days, it originated as an offensive name for white Southern Americans, or redneck trailer-trash dudes. It's common knowledge that there is a large black population down South America, so it's only natural the minority group would have a name given to them by the dominating populous.
It's funny, it's not PC to call a black-board a black-board anymore, but we can still eat crackers without feeling offended.
However, you can't take Christmas crackers into airports because they contain explosives. True story.
Hey, anyone realised that you still have whiteboards? Although they're probably trying to avoid having anyone point that out by installing 'smartboards' into all the schools. I still think the PC brigade haven't gone far enough until they finally decide to turn the Union Jack into a rainbow to 'represent ethnic diversity'. Not that I remember seeing any Smurfs in census records, whose colour makes up most of the present flag.
The only thing that irks me more than racism is reverse racism. Okay I understand that I'm white and there are black people, but the stuff that white people did to black people in America happened before either of us were even born. What's more, my family didn't even move to the United States until after the whole slavery thing fell apart. So when people tell me I should make up for what our ancestors did to each other... I don't understand that. I've never mistreated anyone based on the color of their skin and I never intend to, so I refuse to take responsibility for what happened in this country before I was even here to do anything about it.
Last time I had lobster, it reminded me of biology class. Except in biology class the professor didn't make you eat the frog when you were finished.
"Racism is the routine, instititutionalized mistreatment of a person based on
his/her membership in a group on the downside of power."
All the bad crap races have done each other is inevitable. If you get a majority and a minority, the majority will always bully the minority. It can never be stopped - unless there are no majorities or minorities.
Just a to interest you, look at murder rates for America:
White man: 1 in 205
White woman: 1 in 496
Black man: 1 in 27
Black woman: 1 in 117
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