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Why can African Americans say any demeaning thing about other races, such as white people smell like wet dogs when they come out of the rain, white men cant jump, Jews and faggots own Hollywood, and that’s OK, but if I wrote a book called Black people smell like blunt wrappers and cocoa butter it would be racist?
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Name : Me21878, City : Providence, State : RI, Country : United States,It’s funny that because you are from the United States you feel that African Americans can say anything they feel. I beg to differ. If we really said what we felt all of the time, maybe we would have some power in this country after all. The fact is, we have a hell of a lot more to lose by speaking our minds (minorities) than whites do. I don’t know that there are any black groups that are formed to inflict harm on, or kill whites, but there are quite a few that do on blacks and minorities. That title and book were written by a white man, just so you know. And by the way, I’ve never smoked a blunt, but I do wear cocoa butter.
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Name : What?, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 26, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Many whites say and do racist things all the time that are just blithely passed over or excused away. You have teams named Redskins and Chiefs, and you teach your children to do ‘the Tomahawk Chop.’ You sing racist nursery rhymes like ‘Eeny Meeny Miny Mo’ and ‘Ten Little Indians’ to small babies. You buy and sell products with racist images like Aunt Jemima and Land o’ Lakes Butter. Some of you actually think saying ‘Make a run for the border’ and laughing at the Taco Bell chihuahua are cute and fun instead of sickening and hateful. At the same time, racism by non-whites is dealt with far more harshly than that of whites, in my view. I’ve never heard ANYONE saying ‘black racism is OK’ except for a few actual black racists. A black rapper’s racism is condemned far more harshly than Guns n’ Roses singing ‘Police and Niggers/ Get out of my way/ Don’t want to buy none/ Of your gold chains today’. The entire U.S. Congress condemned Farrakhan in a resolution, something that no one has even proposed for David Duke. I’m certainly not defending nonwhite racism; it’s every bit as morally wrong as white racism. But nonwhite racism is also far less dangerous, because of numbers and relative power. Yet nonwhite racism gets far harsher treatment and condemnation, precisely because it threatens white power and privilege as much as anti-racism does.
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Name : ACC25065, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : W. Lafayette, State : IN, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student,This is just part of the double standard the United States has about discussing race and ethnicity. It is completely against the Constitutional protection of free speech that what is said against minorities is forbidden, even prosecuted (even in universities, which should be the bastions of free speech) while anything can be said against whites. I remember a Redd Foxx TV show in which he said (I think this is an exact quote), ‘Ain’t nothing uglier than an old white woman.’ I can imagine the uproar if this were said about some ‘minority’ group instead. I have encountered an anthology of articles about ethnic groups, commonly used to teach classes even in elite prep schools, in which there is an article by a black man that has the most outrageous lies about the 17th-century Puritans of Massachusetts I have ever seen. Not one comment by the editor that this article might not be true — and the students reading it would have no idea it is one man’s vitriolic lies unless the teacher happened to point this out. I think everyone should be able to say anything they please about anything as long as this applies to everyone, and as long as it is made clear that what is said may be just someone’s opinion, not necessarily fact. I would like it to be clear that I would rather people never said anything vicious about anyone else, but that happy situation is unlikely to prevail anytime soon.
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Name : Carak, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 60, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : high-tech professional, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Only in America! I have said enough.
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Name : Priscilla30280, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 24, City : Sydney, State : NA, Country : Australia, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,It’s just not African Americans asking derogatory questions, but whites, Jews and any other race you can name. Everyone has a yearning to understand what has not been taught to them. Questions, even those worded correctly, can offend anyone who is thin-skinned. I am an African American and don’t find interest and don’t make it my business to wonder about ‘Jews and faggots,’ as you put it. Isn’t it ignorant to call someone a ‘fggot’ when the proper polite term is homosexual?
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Name : Ruth29511, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 30, City : Minneapolis, State : MN, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Who told you it was OK for people to say ignorant things? You are asking the wrong question. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Also, I think you need to learn the difference between the words racist and stereotype – they don’t mean the same thing. Belief in stereotypes doesn’t make you racist, just ignorant.
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Name : Me too, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/ Native American, Religion : Catholic, Age : 21, City : New Orleans, State : LA, Country : United States, Occupation : College Student, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
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