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Originally Posted by Socrates
Well all I'm going to say, because my post could be 5 times longer then yours against it is that the white people on that show are totally ignorant. They do shit to try and please the black people and try to show that they're being embraced when in fact they should be trying to show that they are accepted. Well, the adults are ignorant, the girl is pretty ill.
But then again I only saw one episode. *shrugs*
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Yeah, I think theres been like 3 or 4...i've seen 2 of them. I would def agree with you that the adults are ignorant, however...there ignorance doesn't alleviate the idea that some things that are shown in that show, prove my idea that some black people..or minorities...misconstrue people being assholes as an act of racism. I think a big reason, on the western part of america, that people are seen as racist. Because everyone is so afraid of saying the wrong thing, or doing the wrong thing, or whatever. I don't like the idea that if i get in a fight with a black person, because we just don't like eachother...could be considered a hate crime. And that sort of shit happens all the time, i hear black people say all the time...."it's cause i'm black right?" it actually happened when i first moved to eugene, i asked this kid if he played basketball, cause i wanted someone to go to the gym with...and he immediately took that as i said it cause he was black....when in reality...i said it because he was in my room, listening to music, talkin to me, and i wanted to know if he played so I could go the gym with someone. He coulda been fuckin green, and as long as i knew he wasn't about to die...i woulda asked him the same thing...another time i was trying to explain something to a different dude, and i said..."yeah, remember that one black dude?" and that got taken as racist...."oh why you gotta point him out because he was black?".....seriously? maybe it's because thats how it's easy to remember him, and get others to remember him..this is oregon, and as sad as it may be, black people stick out..because they are rare.just like white people with
rare and easily noticable features.... if he had one leg, blonde hair, blue eyes, and acne...i would have said...hey..remember that dude with one leg?....and those are just two of many examples...
once again..racism does exist...i just don't think it's as popular as some people make it out to be...
and as far as other people asside from that show, trying to embrace black people, instead of showing them they are accepted.
Why is that a bad thing? or why does that make someone ignorant?
Maybe they want to show someone they are accepted, but they don't know how to do that without intentionally going out of there way to prove they embrace them, without offending them. I think one of the problems that keep the idea of racism alive...is a lot of people tend to be over bearing when it comes to proving a point, and so it's easy to fuckin tell when there trying to prove something...and not being racist, is something that is probably a big deal to them....it actually annoys the shit out of me...maybe it's in a whites nature to be paranoid that nobody believes them, or maybe thats how everyone is..i don't really know.
That's a form of ignorance i suppose, but i don't see how anyone could be upset with that