Freakzilla wrote:I know y'all probably think I'm racist, but it's the double standards that piss me of.
White people can't even discuss racial relations without being called racists anymore. At least in my part of the country, and I hear it's that way in most places around the nation.
We should have a Racism Political topic for me to rant in...
I don't think you're racist, just frustrated, and I get mad at the double standards too, but for now they're a necessary (or at least unavoidable) evil, because some people need them to have any chance at all. It's frustrating, but it's the way it is for now, and it's not like it's been very long since black people had to fight for just the right to vote, or even drink from the same water fountain. So of course there is backlash racism against white people now, and “reverse” racism towards black people, I'm not saying it's justified
at all, but it is totally understandable. Just like your reaction to the double standard is understandable.
Nothing's fixed yet, and it's going to take a while for the damage to be undone. And I agree that it's a major problem that even discussing this stuff can set some people off, but that's going to take a while to fade.
We'll live, this is a relatively small price to pay for working towards undoing an unthinkable wrong IMO.
BB- you know I was being super-sarcastic right?