Dante1214 wrote...
The video Afroman posted is pretty much the same as my response.
There is a lot of racism still in the world, but we also too often sacrifice honesty to avoid seeming racist, and a lot of minorities like to get offended in situations that definitely do not call for it.
And although it is true of all minorities, black people DO play the race card a lot more than other minorities, or at least the do in my experience.
Racism of any kind is one of the most annoying and useless traits a person can have. It can very quickly turn a reasonable discussion into retarded blather. And that goes both ways. But for some reason, if I'm talking to a black guy, and I make a joke about how he has 3 fried chicken joints on his block, he can get offended, but I'm not allowed to get offended or annoyed when I hear a black guy do that fucking white guy voice that no white guy has ever actually had.
Yes, slavery is horrible, and the period of slavery in the United States was a terrible mark on our history, but I never owned a slave, and this black dude never was a slave.
Shit, my family didn't even own slaves. My father's parents were both immigrants, and both treated pretty shitty as such. And even though parts of my mom's family have been in Virginia forever, they've always been poor, and never owned slaves.
So I have no white guilt, and owe no explanations to any black people, or any other minority, for being ass much of a dick to them as I am to white people.
It's worse to be nicer to any race more than your own, because then you are treating people differently based on race, and thus, a racist.
We really need to get to a point in this country, and in the world, were people don't inject bullshit about race into everything just to make excuses.
If you want to be mad, be mad at people who are still genuinely racist, and see you as scum, not at me for giving you a pack of watermelon flavored gum last Christmas.
^This.
I myself come from an immigrant Russian/Jewish family. No american blood to trace back to the slave age.
It's something I've taken to saying: "A thousand years ago, the worst thing to be born was a woman. A hundred years ago, black. Fifty, a Jew. Today? White middle-class male."