If your skin is black or you are asian if u affend anyone from this race you are automatically called racist but if someone offends a white person no one blinks an eye lid why is this? how come racism only exists if it is a white person towards a black person! i just don't understand the concept of this?
2006-08-31 02:01:24 · 50 answers · asked by em 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
It is racism whoever offends whoever, black, white, mauve, pink, fleuro!!!! I think it's just there is alot more racist from white to black and stuff that you don't notice the other way round. Colour is exactly that colour, we are all the same, same organs and all that other gear that keeps us going!
2006-08-31 02:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by tassiehunny 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very good question and its something we see all too often. Somebody mentioned about the MOBO awards - good example. I used to think that it was to do with the fact that black or Asian people were the minority so it was seen as more wrong to be racist toward the minority than the majority if you see what I mean. But really, it stems back to the issues of slavery and the terrible way that black and even Asian people were treated by our white ancestors. Its a very sensitive issue. However there is no excuse for racism and its is just as bad toward white or black pr Asian people.
2006-08-31 04:41:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its crap to say white people do not feel the sting of racism - thats an insult to all white people.
I can relate several occasions where white boys have been beaten up in racist attacks by asian youths and nothing was done by the police. But if the situation was reversed and an asian boy was beaten up in a racist attack by white youths it would be front page news on every newspaper.
Some of the Pakistanis I know are the most racist people I have ever met. Far worse than any white person!
Presumably thery "justify" it by whining and whingeing about how people have been nasty to them in the past and its not their fault blah blah blah. They never seem to take responsibility for their actions or attitudes.
2006-08-31 05:18:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sad thing is em you are very right. What started out as a sensible law has gone barmy. I have an Asian friend who is often racially abused by Indians next door. Yet nothing is done. Blair has caused more racial problems with his laws then any BNP member. Human Rights seem to have a bias towards coloured people and missed the white race out. If you insult someone you insult them Black, Asian, White, Pink Green its all the same. Too many leading Black activists and personalities generate a fire under race.
2006-08-31 03:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by deadly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are exactly right, I don't understand it either but you see it all the time. The whites are the real minority when it comes to so many things because we have to watch everything we say and do and the blacks call each other names that we would get shot for. I don't understand that either. If I called you the N word I'm racist but you call each other the N word all day long and its funny to you. Double standard. By the way, I don't like that word whoever uses it. My best friend is black and we have discussed this and she wonders about alot of this crap also.
2006-08-31 02:13:55 · answer #5 · answered by 51ain'tbad 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Racism does not only exist when white attacks black, but when anyone at all attacks a person directly regarding their country of origin. Only a few weeks ago I was subjected to a verbal racist attack from a Spaniard, I'm white british BTW, so its not just about colour, and anyone who thinks it is is so way off the mark
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2006-08-31 02:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very true i have been called a white b i t c h and there is nothing i can do. as soon as you mention black or asian i'm being racist. I was born in South Africa among blacks, i am NOT racist. it is not the colour of these people that make you racist it's there attitude. and there attitude towards the white. You'll find most people are racist because of there attitude not colour.
2006-08-31 03:13:56 · answer #7 · answered by shelz042000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Racism is bad not matter what race is being targetted. For instance, right now the President-dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is conducting a totally unfair and unlwaful policy against the white minority in his country. That's racism and so shocking than even black Zimbabweans and Africans from other countries are against that and oppose Mugabe risking their necks.
2006-08-31 02:10:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
How true,how true. Racism sucks!! Better be careful somebody might call the NAACP whick to me is nothing but a black klan out to get people who don't agree with their views or who ever they represent. It seems if you don't agree with a black you are being a racist,(especially if you are white). They can call us names and nobody says much about it, but let a white make the same remark and you a war on you hands.Racism sucks.
2006-08-31 13:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by mclamb63 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand your question and I have often wondered the same thing.
At my last job there was a black woman there and she was the most racist woman I had ever met. She would make comments to me all of the time and after reporting her to HR they said there wasn't anything they could do. She used to sexually harass guys at work and they were afraid to do anything because she had threatened to sue before. It wasn't anyone else who was racist it was just her.
Things like that happen a lot more then people realize and it isn't right.
2006-08-31 02:23:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋