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L. Veracity 03-23-07 03:57 PM

Racism Is Still Alive
 
if you don't agree with the title after reading this article you're blind

http://www.ybpguide.com/2007/03/13/...-in-plain-view/

here's the article in case the link doesn't work

Quote:
Originally Posted by Young Black Professional Guide
Paris, Texas is the home of the Paris Fairgrounds, a stage where thousands of white ’spectators’ would gather to burn and lynch blacks as if at some sort of carnival. today, it is a highly segregated town that has implicity dared anyone to question how it chooses to treat blacks that live in the area.

THE FACTS:

1. “Black parents have filed at least a 12 discrimination complaints against the school district with the federal Education Department, asserting that their children, who constitute 40 percent of the district’s nearly 4,000 students, were singled out for excessive discipline.”

2. The paris public schools are under investigation by the U.S. Education Department.

3. 19-year-old white man, convicted last july of criminally negligent homicide for killing a 54-year-old black woman and her 3-year-old grandson with his truck, was sentenced in Paris to probation.

4. Judge chuck superville sentenced a 14-year-old white girl, convicted of arson for burning down her family’s house, to probation.

5. A 14-year-old black freshman, shaquanda cotton, shoved a 58-year-old teacher’s aide at paris high school in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun. she was tried in march 2006 in the town’s juvenile court, convicted of “assault on a public servant” and sentenced by the same judge chuck superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21.

Yes, you read that last part right. i’ll let it sink in for a second.

So its 2007, one state is drafting formal legislation to apologize for slavery, and another is trying to flex its ‘dont mess with texas’ ego. While i complained earlier of how dismayed i was that some black blogs tend to be angry, this type of reality justifies that sentiment, and rightfully so. While i’ve never been the most articulate when it comes to expressing the complete shock of ‘in plain view’ racism, I can honestly say that this type of white arrogance and hate needs to be called out and handled swiftly. But how? the article mentions that naacp is on the case (rolling eyes), but i feel like more, MUCH MORE needs to be done.

If you get to the end of the article, the turmoil suffered by shaquanda in juvenile prison, where 95% of the offenders are repeat and violent (read: real crimes), has caused her to attempt suicide on her life 3 times. 3 times! A 14-year old, my little sister, is trying to kill herself because a racist bigot of a judge put her in prison for shoving someone. SHOVING!

So what can be done? link to this article. publicize this story. Let’s see what blogging black can really do. Go to the governor’s page at http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact and let him know how you feel and how this is completely bullshit.

Free shaquanda cotton. NOW!

I ask that some of my more articulate readers post a statement in the comments that we can all use on the contact form on the Texas governor page.

Killa-K 03-23-07 04:06 PM

Ohhh you damn right about that it is alive i live in a white populated area and me and my dude are both black and at least 3 times a week we get threats n get called niggas by passing people shitt is still pretty bad i agree totally in that.

Magic5 03-23-07 05:16 PM

There's no proof for most of that shit. Like, the dude who supposedly got probabtion for killing people. There's no link or any of that, even though it's public record and if it was true it could easily be found online. I don't know anybody who'll say that racism is nonexistant though, so I don't really know what point you're trying to make. Those points are bullshit without evidence, and the story could very well be biased on a "Young Black Professional Guide" anyway. Regardless, nobody has said racism is dead so thanks for the useless article.

Logic The Goonie 03-23-07 05:40 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mimesis
There's no proof for most of that shit. Like, the dude who supposedly got probabtion for killing people. There's no link or any of that, even though it's public record and if it was true it could easily be found online. I don't know anybody who'll say that racism is nonexistant though, so I don't really know what point you're trying to make. Those points are bullshit without evidence, and the story could very well be biased on a "Young Black Professional Guide" anyway. Regardless, nobody has said racism is dead so thanks for the useless article.

Mimesis, I love you, but you be on some gay as fuck Republican shit sometimes. =/

Pure Knowledge 03-23-07 05:48 PM

No shit racism's still around. I don't have to read an article to know that.

M&rk 03-23-07 07:22 PM

werd, theres plenty of hate groups still in amerca, thats easy to look up. idk what she tryin to prove either. but werd i didn't know paris was more racist. and i dont know why there is more racism in paris since they didn't even have the type of slavery situation we had.

L. Veracity 03-23-07 07:39 PM

^ it's Paris, Texas not Paris, France lol

and it's not a news flash on racism being alive still
just showing the depth at which it still exists
personally, I'd believe something like this happened before I was born
but it's FUCKing 2007...there is 0 cause for things like this to happen

and just cuz there's no links to the other situations doesn't mean they don't exist
if you know where to look you may or may not find information on those stories
but things like that won't exactly make headlines in a town like that

M&rk 03-23-07 11:49 PM

^^^, haha, well werd then, that makes your thread make more sense to me.

Enygma 03-24-07 03:30 AM

OK.....I was in a predominately mixed school, but the majority was definitely not white. I was in the principal's office daily....honestly. Part of my punishment for smoking in the bathroom was to check in with the dean three times a day. There was a dude who got caught smoking crack in the bathroom who got off less than me, and guess what his skin color was............yup :thumbup:


reverse racism works the same way.......which is the biggest oxymoron. Wouldn't reverse racism be the opposite or racism?


But yeah.....racism isn't always some crazy crackers trying to make a point.....

L. Veracity 03-24-07 09:42 AM

nobody said only black people encounter racism
and no it's not "reverse racism" it's just racism

that's wrong as shit that he was smoking crack and didn't get kicked out #1
much less that compared to you his punishment was 0

Magic5 03-24-07 09:15 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Logic/Socrates
Mimesis, I love you, but you be on some gay as fuck Republican shit sometimes. =/


How was that on some gay as fuck Republican shit? I vote Republican because they keep taxes down, so. .

What I said was the truth though. Who has said that racism is dead? Everybody knows that it's not, and that article was saying shit without anything to back it up. I don't understand how that's on some Republican shit.

Magic5 03-24-07 09:17 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by L. Veracity
nobody said only black people encounter racism
and no it's not "reverse racism" it's just racism

that's wrong as shit that he was smoking crack and didn't get kicked out #1
much less that compared to you his punishment was 0


Reverse racism is racism against white people.

Dufflebag Boy 03-24-07 09:52 PM

damn now thats really fucked up...how the fuck can a person just get probation after they ran down a woman and her kid but a another person can get 7 years in prison for shoving somebody!!??? thats fuckin insane someone should put a bullet in that judge's brain right now..yo some racists' throats need to be slit right now freal..fuck em all

L. Veracity 03-25-07 10:55 AM

yes, extremely "fucked up"

and Memesis...like I said in my post before...
there's no such thing as "reverse racism" it's just RACISM...period
no matter who it's to, white, black, purple, greeen whatever

Sir Smash'Alot 03-25-07 07:53 PM

theres no doubt racism is around

is it an excuse for any non-white person to be a fucking loser?

hell no

cause racism isnt big in big cities

Population (1990): 24699 (11191 housing units)

Paris, Texas, is barely still around



and racism goes BOTH ways.

WhoAmI 03-26-07 03:41 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Picture
werd, theres plenty of hate groups still in amerca, thats easy to look up. idk what she tryin to prove either. but werd i didn't know paris was more racist. and i dont know why there is more racism in paris since they didn't even have the type of slavery situation we had.


racism also occurs in a bad way in paris in France too...they tried to play it real smooth there though but thats a whole new thread...

and anyone who say's there's such a thing as reverse racism is retarded and i don't give a fuck how you feel about that...racism is the discrimination against someone or a group of people because of their race...which obviously includes any given race under the sun...unless you some redneck who believes that the only races are the white race in one category and then everyone else in the other.

racism exists and some have had it much harder than others, but i'll be damned if i'm being kept down by the oppression of my race over the centuries...im doing my thing in life and i aint aiming for nothing less than success. and i aint talkin bout bein one of those dreamy muhfuckers who just talk about shit...im being active in my pursuit and no asshole's telling me what i can and can't achieve...

Sir Smash'Alot 03-26-07 04:04 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xay
racism also occurs in a bad way in paris in France too...they tried to play it real smooth there though but thats a whole new thread...

This is in texas not europe man

WhoAmI 03-26-07 04:09 PM

which is why i used the words "also" and "too" referring to an additional paris

i'm fully aware that the Paris in question is in Texas

Blay'all 03-26-07 08:37 PM

just google "Genarlow Wilson"... THAT's some fucked up shit.

3.2 GPA in high school, star of the football team, all-around great guy, was 17, got head from a 15 year old (white) girl, something that happens ALLLL the time, and got 10+ years in prison for "concentual oral relations" with an underage girl.

the thing that makes it even more fucked up, is the law has since been changed and that crime has been lowered to a misdemeaner, meaning Wilson wouldn't even be in jail (he was convicted of a felony). and he's still locked up for 10 years minimum, by 4 white jurors, for getting concentual head from a girl one grade level below him.

Magic5 03-27-07 08:43 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mic Jordan™
just google "Genarlow Wilson"... THAT's some fucked up shit.

3.2 GPA in high school, star of the football team, all-around great guy, was 17, got head from a 15 year old (white) girl, something that happens ALLLL the time, and got 10+ years in prison for "concentual oral relations" with an underage girl.

the thing that makes it even more fucked up, is the law has since been changed and that crime has been lowered to a misdemeaner, meaning Wilson wouldn't even be in jail (he was convicted of a felony). and he's still locked up for 10 years minimum, by 4 white jurors, for getting concentual head from a girl one grade level below him.


4 white jurors isn't a majority, but word. That's some pretty gay shit. He should try to appeal the verdict. He'd probably win and his sentence would be lessened.

Magic5 03-27-07 08:46 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xay
and anyone who say's there's such a thing as reverse racism is retarded and i don't give a fuck how you feel about that...racism is the discrimination against someone or a group of people because of their race...which obviously includes any given race under the sun...unless you some redneck who believes that the only races are the white race in one category and then everyone else in the other.


No you dumbfuck, racism against whites is called reverse racism. I didn't just pull that out of my ass because I thought it sounded cool, that's what it's called. I didn't say I agreed with it.

WhoAmI 03-27-07 08:54 PM

look racism up in the dictionary asshole

Blay'all 03-27-07 08:58 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mimesis
4 white jurors isn't a majority, but word. That's some pretty gay shit. He should try to appeal the verdict. He'd probably win and his sentence would be lessened.

oh believe me, they are. he's famous all over the news/internet and shit... there's a huge petition for him, they're doing what they can. but i heard it's all up to what the prosecuting attorney chooses to let slide... what a fuckin' douche, no regard for this kid's life.

oh and yeah, it was a majority. i heard it was a count of 4-3, all 4 who voted guilty were white.

Magic5 03-28-07 02:21 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xay
look racism up in the dictionary asshole


Dude, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Reverse racism is racism against whites. I didn't say I thought that was a good term for it, but that's what it fucking is, so shut the fuck up. It doesn't even matter because minorities can't be "racist" against the majority anyway, so reverse racism is really just prejudice. Regardless, racism/prejudice against whites is called reverse racism.

Magic5 03-28-07 02:27 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mic Jordan™
oh believe me, they are. he's famous all over the news/internet and shit... there's a huge petition for him, they're doing what they can. but i heard it's all up to what the prosecuting attorney chooses to let slide... what a fuckin' douche, no regard for this kid's life.

oh and yeah, it was a majority. i heard it was a count of 4-3, all 4 who voted guilty were white.


The prosecuting attorney is never going to let it slide, regardless of how many get put on the petition. He needs to file an appeal and site the reasons for why the state decided to drastically lessen the consequences for doing whatever he did.

I don't think that could be a majority though, juries usually have more then 7 people on them. I don't really know though, I never even heard about that shit until you said something.

L. Veracity 03-28-07 09:40 AM

there is no such thing as REVERSE racism

racism isn't defined as "white people who hate other races"
therefore by definition there's no such thing as "reverse" racism

racism is racism, PERIOD

Mad Dog 03-28-07 11:27 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by L. Veracity
there is no such thing as REVERSE racism

racism isn't defined as "white people who hate other races"
therefore by definition there's no such thing as "reverse" racism

racism is racism, PERIOD


lmao @ reverse racism...werd to LV for saying that

but sadly fact is no matter how much people try to eradicate racism, it'll always exist no matter how remotely small it'll become because everyone is gonna know about it, learn about it for years and years...people learn about slavery, racism, you learn about the Nazi's in the 2nd world war, racism...you learn about MLK and Malcom X, racism...shit even learning about the ancient Egyptians will bring up a racism topic due to the enslaved Isralites and that was 3000+ years ago...basically racism is like a stain on a piece of clothing that no matter how much you try to wash it away and no matter how much it fades, it'll always be there...sad really


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