Racism

It's cruel and pointless, people hate other people of different races for being who they are. I think it's just plain stupid

 

Racism is were a person treats someone as less than human for stupid reasons such as skin color or origins. Those that practice racism are more like animals themselves.

 

Depends on how you use it these days. Honestly, today friends gather about and are able to make simple racist jokes towards each other. You have your "it's funny because it's true" jokes but probably would not say it when a stranger is about. People are conscious about it still but appear to be more flexible about it than they did years ago.

 

There's this book called Nigger (-___- I hope Raiden don't ban me for saying that) written by a black man that tells about how a black person or the whole race was treated poorly. <.> What made me mad is when he wrote about a joke about how you can chase a black person with a bucket of KFC. My teacher is reading that now & after he gets done with it, I'm going to read it.

 

Racist jokes are amusing as long as your not being serious, my best mate is black and we burn the shit outa him sometimes for a laugh. He's cool with it so its all alright.

Real racism is a mess, cant really be dealt with though. People have different opinions and they cant easily be changed.

 

I was watching The Longest Yard on TNT one time. And it got to the library scene. You know, the one where the guards call the runningback a nigger. Anyways, the channel decides to censor that scene. Instead of saying nigger, they say negro. And that scene sounded so funny with negro.

Exactly. It just bugs me when there are those people who take jokes like those too seriously. But the people who are always playing the race card for everything really bugs me.

Yeah, that bugs me too. Although I've made some jokes concerning that to get into college. Since I'm part Native American, I've jokes saying I could say that is my race or whatever to get into college.

 

the race card is what bugs me, it's been over for about 60 70 years now, but everybody when there treated un fair by another race, they pull a race card, i think it's bull crap, anybody that is racist today your a dying breed, last the past die and long live the future. I say white jokes with one of my best friends, we both know i'm kidding, but when my teacher heres it i'm in trouble, stuff like that i think is just crap.


But there is still racism today, in america too, a lot more than ppl can see. The world is not free of it, cuz a lot of people in the world just dont or dont want to get along with others, cuz of what they heard, or what they've seen. In america, the white house is the biggest, why is it called the white house? cuz white ppl back then and now are full of themselves still (not all) everything in washington is white, the lincon memorial, that big log pointy thing with the water in front of it, the all white, and white ppl still run are goverment, yes there are mexicans and blacks or candaians, and the black prez dude there all breaking the race block in america but it wont fall to fast. now i might sound a little racist myself but i'm not, just a little strong on the subject.

 

This is mainly what bugs me, the race card. Derived from the wild card, but with negroes instead. I don't believe that every negroe is the same, but some will intantly say that somebody is racist, then use that as an excuse, despite the fact they've probablies said something about the white person.

 

i treat racism as discrimination, however you spell it, and i disaprove all discrimination

i am a form of discrimination by some people, but not racial discrimination

i hope you know what i meant

EDIT: we dont call black people negroes anymore, just african-american (or afro-american)
and to friends of other races, like to people that are used to it, just black person

about the race card, some are actualy victims of racism on their past

 

The reason why they use the term African-American is because our blood & roots came from Africa. Even though we're born in America, our ancestors came from Africa. As for me though, I'm not sure. My grandmommy told me that my great- grandmommy was part half Blackfoot (That's a Indian tribe.) Same if you're German or European. Even if you're born in America, you're real native blood came from that country that those before you came. That's what I think anyways.

 

i dont like that either, i mean your African, you might be born in America but you have no American blood in you, just African sometimes, of course your mixed with other things too. But if all didnt no American is a title meant for ppl that came to the new world called brave ppl or something around there, and those ppl were mostly European.

 

The hell, I have born in Finland and yet I have some Russian blood in my family tree. Usually the Finnish folk call the Russians as "ryssä" (the term has been in Finland for ages, it's an insult of sorts), yet eveen that they know it, I'm not being treated as one, only sometimes I encounter a situation where I'll hear it.

When you speak of a person that he's Africa-American, why don't use the name instead or simply "that guy over there".

If you've born in a country, you're that country's citizen. Toph maybe made a more clearer explanation, but I don't just like it when people are called by where their ancestors came from. I wouldn't want that kind of treatment since it isn't the very nicest in Finland towards the Russians.