I'm annoyed with stupid and ignorant individuals..someone explain this to me please...?

Question

why do people assume that only white people are racists...or that if a black person has a problem with racism theyre automatically "living in the past and need to get over it"...its all bullsh!t..Having an entire race...controlled by another ruthlessly for a long period of time..no matter how long ago that supression occured.. it isnt something people will get over easily..and its not something you will understand if you are not african american or part of an ethnic race that has gone through that..yes it happened long ago and yes.. people should not dwell on it but racism still exists..and i hear alot of people say "well, black people are racist too" yes, SOME....its not fair for latinos to be dirty.. black ppl to be stupid or drug dealers..and white ppl to be stuck up assholes automatically just because of the color of their skin..or for my boyfriend and i to get strange looks at times for being an interracial couple?...someone please explain to me why people still think this way?

Answer 1

Unfortunaly there is no answer for this and there is no excuse for racism especially in this day and age. It is down to the way people are socialised by their family, friends, school, college and workplace and the media. People are not born racist they learn it through others attitudes and perceptions as to "what is right" and what they perceive as being "normal".

Racism is down to ignorance, through not wanting to learn any different or through believing you are absoultly right no matter what. The media has a large part to play in this labelling of individuals as it only reports stories that support these stereotypes within society and unitl this is challenged and people's perceptions are challenge this will never change, what a sad world we live in.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, whether you like it or not, that's reality. Yes,there's racism and will always be. But it won't be iradicated in the near future. After you,there will be more people complaining about it. Slavery happened a long time ago. It's unfortunate but it happened to your ancestors not you directly so you can't possibly bear the pains and anguish as you stated.

It's an event in your history and shouldn't be forgotten. But there's time and a place for everything. You have to learn to let go and move on. You'll not accomplish anything by dwelling in the past. Especially when you try unsuccessfully to identify who's at fault. All these aches will just cause a stress on your life.

There's a lot of stereotyping going on but that's all because of human nature. And people find it hard to accept interracial couples. Every race got their own pitfalls. Nobody's perfect.

Answer 3

Itis easier to fear or hate something that you do not understand.
I personally think that all races have racists, and I will never understand it either. I always taught my kids that if you peel away our skin we are all the same underneath! Every humanbeing is the same on the inside. And that there is only one race---the human race!
But I do know what you mean about getting "looks", I have a milk chocolate, and a white chocolate grandbabies. Living in the south my well blended family gets lots of "looks".
One time at a restaurant, a lady (and I use that term loosley) stopped at our table and was talking to the kids, and she looked at me and said I think that it is so great that you let your foster grandchild call you grandma, just like your own! I was so flabbergasted the only thing that I could say was, "Honey, they were both born to my son!" And I thought she was going to faint, as she walked out the door! Just because I was white and one of the kids are white, and one is mixed, he must not be my flesh and blood! Boy I get hot everytime I think about that!
Besides that he looks just like me only tanned!! And he will tell you that too! As he says right down to gan's feckles! He doesn't pronounce his r's too well yet!
It is all about love I guess, and some times we have to show more to those who show us less.

Answer 4

People still think this way because the attitudes are passed from one generation to the next, on both sides. I'm sure I'm going to b accused of racism for saying this, but the fact is that Italian and Irish immigrants were discriminated against when they first started arriving in the United States, but you don't have "Italian Studies" sections in the library, or "Irish History Month" teaching and reinforcing historic oppression. The Holocaust is remembered out of respect for its victims and as a warning to mankind not to repeat a most dark moment in its history, but you don't hear Jewish people constantly referring back to it, or claiming they're still owed some kind of retribution.

In additon, children are reared to embody their ethnic and cultural heritage, and this often includes differences that result in racism. In other words, white children are brought up to "be white" and black children are brought up to "be black," and when the cultural differences are acknowledged, it often results in accusations of racism.

I liked George Carlin's thought on it (I think I have the credit correct). He said, essentially, that no white person alive today ever owned a slave, and no black person alive today ever was a slave. Looking only at the population today, neither group owes the other anything. It is, in fact, time to move on.

Answer 5

I am asking myself the same quesrtion everyday!
I wrote a whole issue to the Parliament of Greece and complained about racism(against other religions,races,homosexuals)
People in Greece like me because I am Greek,beautiful,clever and peopla hate me for the same reason.i Don't want the same people who are racists to others( because of their race,sex, sexual preferences) be nice to me.I hate them for liking me.I have to deal with racists everyday to support people that I don't now just because I see that what's going on is unfair and cruel.Here in greece we have a great problem coz there are many Albanians that have come here to work,Most of them have become criminals becuase they're poor.I know it's not right but we've got to judge them as a personality not as a race.The majority of Greeks say"Albanians are criminals".But the greeks who say that are so narrow minded,uneducated people with complexes!Not all Albanians are like that.There are hard working ones.I cannot accept people to judge a whole race.Every country has criminals!Thank God my family gives me the highest education and knowledge and has made me open minded.And guys in my luceym say"here comes the feminist".Ooh the losers,then they beg for me to glance at them.Don't listen to what people say.U know u're right(Nirvana).By the way Kurt Cobain had said that"when I was an alien cultures were not opinions".got it?Take care

Answer 6

its their parents. you learn what you were taught. and so that you know how can racism be gone? the 60's were only 40 years ago-that's too short of time for idiots to get over their UP BRININGS.

by the way be proud you are in a interracial relationship-i'm in one but i'm married! and we have a young son who's gonna grow up the THE NEW HUMAN WAY.

mixed.

Answer 7

You're just going to have to deal with it. Things like racism don't change overnight. At the same time, people have the right to be ignorant and stupid in this country, you can't let it get to you.

Answer 8

"We have to face the fact that man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the allied birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters."
- M. L. K.
The more things change the more they stay the same.

Answer 9

Very simple, ignorance is the number one problem people have. Education, is the key to many doors being shut and opened.

Answer 10

Paying attention to what other people say just prolongs the torture... who cares, as long as you're happy? It's their problem. We are a rainbow race called HUMANITY.