A question on racial double-standards, what do you think of these?

Question

I'll probably yet again be branded a racist for this. These questions are mainly targeted towards minorities; I'm curious about this.

If you are a minority, does it offend you to hear a white person say they are proud to be white? Does this make the person a racist in your view?

How would you feel if your local school started a "Caucasian club" but allowed people of any race to join? (just because I've already seen the same thing with an "Asian club."

How about if the government or a private association started scholarships, available only to white students?

I just can't understand why it seems like people think it's ok for other races to do these things, but that it's not ok for white people to do the same thing.

By the way, for those of you who want to bring up things white people did 100 years ago, what does that have to do with today? I have personally never discriminated against anyone due to their race, so I don't see why I should have to be punished because some other people did.

Answer 1

I don't know why it is like that but you are right. People deny it and blame white people for everything. The really bad thing is that most people, unlike yourself, would never have the nerve to bring it up for fear that someone will say that it is racist and call the NAACP on them. I don't know what happened to freedom of speech and expression. They just can't handle the truth.


I am not a racist...I do believe in EQUAL rights...but no such thing will ever exist.

Answer 2

It is a double standard, and to even mention such things makes people cry racism. The world has grown too sensitive over our small insignificant differences, and people forget that we all belong to the same race. Throughout history people have has a need to segregate themselves from one another... and white people unfortunately have a pretty nasty history in the way they treated non-white people. Although this generation has practically abolished the acceptable use of bigotry, the effect of the past still plays a part in our lives.

You should be able to start a Caucasian club, but it would just be to prove a point. What would a "white" club do anyway? You should be able to say that you're proud to be white. Why not be proud of who you are and what you look like, as long as you don't consider yourself genetically superior. And as for the government scholarships, well there probably shouldn't be limits on those anyway. If anything, all scholarships should be based on how hard you work at your studies, not your skin colour.

Answer 3

The ones who feel "proud" for being white, yes, they are racists; immediately they believe that other races are inferior to them.
What you say about this club is oxymoron; why would an "Asian" club accept other races? It has no meaning to be called "Asian"....
If the government started scholarships only to white people, it would be the ultimate racism. This way it would exclude the other races from the educational system, it wouldn't give them the chance to progress in their studies, the students wouldn't be equal.
My friend, the white people have been always enjoying the benefits of the educational system(and not only....)There was never racism towards the white people; and if there was, occasionally, this would be a defense of the ones who had previously been ousted by the whites...It would be just a reaction.
Anyway, if that's what you think, I'm sorry, but you are a typical racist.....

Answer 4

Some kids tried to start a Future Irish Business Men's club at the local high school. They were told no because it would be perceived as racists even though they would let anyone with Irish genes belong. There are a large number of Black, Hispanic, and Asian people with Irish ancestors in this country.

Irish people were sold as slaves in the Caribbean and Australia at the same time that Blacks were sold as slaves in this country. Many Irish slaves were just toosed overboard from over crowded slave ships so the Captains could collect the insurance.Irish women in this country were forced to marry blacks so they and their children could then be sold as slaves. They initially arrived in this country to signs saying, "No Irish Allowed" and "Irish Need Not Apply". Between 1125 and 1855, over 8 million Irish were murdered by the English who portrayed them in the press as "Ape Like" and less than human.

So, I don't get the current social attitudes either.

Answer 5

I AGREE WITH YOU!!!

I'm mixed (black, Spanish, white) and can't stand the "whoa is me" attitude of the non-white races who feel that they have to make such blatant statements about who they are.

While I feel that whites have more "rights" than non-whites... I also realize that WHITES have been here longer, and have brought this country to where it is today.

Sure, Blacks helped build it, and so did many Latin Americanos, Irish, etc..., but without the leadership - and perhaps even abuse of some - of Whites, we would have been a very large second rate country.

I have thought about what the repurcussions would be if a "caucasian" club was started. I mean, in many places in the USA, whites are the minority...

In the wise words of Rodney King: "Why can't we all just get along?"

Answer 6

Yes, I too have wondered the same thing. I do not get this"pride" thing. How can ANYONE be proud of being something that they had absolutely NO part in being part of. What is this meant to be???? Did they place two like raced people together so they could produce themselves? No.

Why is it that so many of us think its perfectly alright to not work, and to steal anything they can get their hands on and not be arrested, but literally DARE people to pull them up and tell them what they have done is not RIGHT?

I did not ask to be born the race I am any more than anyone else did, I do not go around 'In the face" of others because I am big Y bad cuz I'm ----- and PROUD!!". Give me a BREAK! I am only responsible for ME. My daddy is only responsible for what HE did and not his father...

I wish people would get over this free lifestyle because they didnt choose to come to this country... well you're here now, you have more rights than others of other races and if there is prejudice, it is on the other side now.

I am offended by this attitude among SOME people on BOTH sides of the street here... God says that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. That is in our very bill of Rights... Why must there be so much division??? CHOICE. People CHOOSE to be that way; I do not believe for a second that it just "happens" that they are partial to one race over another.. THEY MAKE A CHOICE. If they make the choice, then they can CHOOSE to NOT be prejudiced... this I am so picked on crap... this I"ran because i was scared you were going to hurt me" crap...

If one race gathered together in crisises like they did in the Katrina thing, if Jerry Fallwell had come down and spoke out... all HELL would have broken loose! But we just stood by in shock at the discrimination that took place on all the major news stations... they showed all the 9th ward people... there were hundreds of thousands of others of ALL races in THREE OTHER STATES but did any of those preachers go there and yell UNFAIR!!! " up there? NOOOOOOOOOO!

People, you make your beds... you choose what you get... if you want to have friends, be respected, then respect yourself, and respect others. I hesitate to help anyone anymore because I am taken for granted every time.... No one helps me when I have a need, I have to do things for myself and so do we ALL. ALL!

Answer 7

Because it is seen as a threat. I do not believe that scholarships should be given out based on race or gender. It should be based on ability. We should all see ourselves as one race. The human race.

BTW, the person who answered previously is making an ignorant statement because the people who fought for this nation were white. If you give respect you will get respect.

Answer 8

I have never understood this myself. I know the history, but I still don't get it. I personally don't think its ok for the government to have any scholarships devoted to a certain race. I think private scholarships should be able to be what ever you want, if you want a to start a scholarship for men with one toe missing I wouldn't care, just don't complain if someone else starts their own for something different.

Answer 9

I don't know how many times I have to say this: RACISM IS WRONG ON BOTH SIDES! Anyone who makes hurtful remarks towards others regarding race, which causes public nuisance is intolerable in my eyes.

Everybody is equal.
Unfortunately, some people belonging to a majority group find that concept hard to understand.

Answer 10

I can't understand the common preoccupation of "racial pride."

How can anyone be proud of something that they had no part in accomplishing, regardless of it's considered positive or negative for some childish reason? Who chooses their parents and the genes that come together to make us whatever color or race?

Further, race differences all boil down to ancient physical adaptations to nature: Black skin to protect against blazing suns, slanted eyes to protect against snow blindness on ice shelves of thousands of years' past, hairy white people from cold cloudy places...

The very concept of racial pride is ignorant. No matter who you are.