Originally Posted by Indeph

For one, I don't get offended by someone saying nigger. I don't care if someone doesn't like black people. Racism is only a problem when it becomes an identity issue. The same way that any other form of collectivism does. If a white person sees hisself as superior, racism is beneficial because it's something he or she could fall back on if they're not feeling confident. The reverse is true if he sees whites as inferior. So yeah, it's in someone's head. So if someone gets offended by being called Nigger they obviously see themselves as inferior. The problem is, if a policemen or a US marine kills someone and detains them because their race made them appear more "guilty" to them, me not "worrying" about it, won't really do much, but make people who aren't affected by it(or are likely to never be affected by it) feel better for some reason.(pride is more important than fairness)

Selfish? Being selfish is suppressing an issue that affects people just because it doesn't affect YOUR people. And for the most part, people who keep saying shut up about racism only want people to shut up about it because most of the people being criticized are white people. The second a reverend wright issue comes up and a black person(or any other non white person) is being racist, they're perfectly okay with it. They won't tell white people to shut up. And I know it's not as bad as it was 20 years ago. It's not bad because racism stopped being TOLERATED. That's why things have improved(if that's how you wanna look at it)