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I had a friend who is raising 4 girls and teaching them that their race is the best race. []White people are trash and minorities are the better ones. White people are racist and hate it when minorities bring something better to the table- because white people always want to be in the spot light. ← where does this logic come from?
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I know this is an older post but I would like to add here.
As human beings our eyes see color in many light spectrum's. Thats a good thing. As we grow up we use this to identify shapes and then colors. Our brains start to connect the both together to mean or identify something.
Snow on the ground doesn't look like rain. So when we see snow we think its cold out because thats usually required for snow to lay on the ground. Its what we are exposed to and see with our eyes to represent things.
Why does red mean stop and green go....... Its what we accepted it to mean.
As we use our eyes we start to identify people that way. Before the tanning beds we would see a white person with a tan during the winter and say that person must be from the south where its hot and sunny. Or they were on a southern beach vacation. The color identified that person to a point.
Many of the cultures/races is identifiable by color and looks. The comment she looks Italian and has that smooth Italian skin.
All of this is normal and natural and its part of our senses.
When you think about the word racist whats the first thing that comes to your mind. Color. We get stuck on that because of the big difference in color of races. Racist in the U.S. is more of color issue mainly because of two different distinct colors. Generically it's easier to identify certain races. Our eyes recognize the spectrum's differences. I remember back in the 70s I could identify a car at night just by its white headlight brightness and shape and position on the car.
Whats very interesting is the Puerto Ricans will refer to another Puerto Rican and say " He's a dark or black Puerto Rican.
Different forms of racism:
We visually look at President Obama and label him African American. He looks like a light skinned black man with black features yet he.s 1/2 white.
By proper Definition hes not an African American. Yet the races call him that because of color and that resemblance of a race.
He is a mulatto
define:mulatto - Google Search
So by true Definition labeling him an African American is being racist to the Mulatto's. Calling him a White president may also be racist to the Mulatto's. Ironically to be correct he is simply an American that happens to be a Mulatto
To get it right, historically he is the first Mulatto American to become the U.S. President.
That being said,lets keep this neutral and in the classroom...
" Mulatto: was commonly used in Europe for centuries and to this day and not as a derogatory connotation.
It seems the U.S. is the only country that negatively pushed the race cards so hard when it came to black and white. One could easily say that for 100s of years there were to distinct races, White and black. Again its our eyes that pick up on this.
Obviously the actual color is not the issue. Its what we perceive it to represent and their lies the problems we have here and all over the world.
I think its so sad we need to say this to express thoughts about races.
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Race, ethnicity, background, religion, sexual orientation or whatever should not define someone or a certain group
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To prove we
all have some racist in us lets look at housing in the U.S.
I do find it ironic that we all say Don't be racist, and yet we all usually feel better living with our own race. I drive through neighbors in the cities and see our natural racism.
The Spanish with the Spanish, The blacks with the blacks. The whites with the whites. When The U.S. was more predominately white, the cities were segregated to religion and different white races. It was the Italians with the Italians. The Jews with Jews, Germans with Germans etc... Weather it be simply by nature or design or choice. To this day most would rather live with there own kind for whatever reason. Obviously this isn't everybody. But it does exist..
To prove that a step further go back to U.S. desegregation of schools in the 60s. Now its 2009. The schools today are naturally reverting back to segregated schools. The white fight took place and now we have many all black schools, many all Spanish schools, all Mexican schools. Explain that as not being a type of racist. Why be ashamed of that. We all are racist at some point.
Races will never go away until we all become one color and all look the same. Until then we are what we are. Be kind to all and hope it comes back. Set the example.
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