Racism is it really messed up?

Question

ok so this was actually brought up by my english teacher it was something like this.....

A black person can say...I want to live in a black neighborhood where there are people the same race as me, that like the food i like, that play the sports i play, that listen to the music i listen to and we dont really call that racism

BUT.....

If a white person says I want to live in a white neighborhood where there are people the same race as me, that like the food i like, that play the sports i play, that listen to the music i listen to we call them racists

Is that not messed up?

Answer 1

but a lot of white people say that because they are racists, and black people because they dont want to be looked at funny in their own nieghbor hood,

None the less, white people started a racial war, their hatred has begot whatever feelings are harbored toward them, and they have predominately been racist towards blacks the last 300+ years, so i say go on black people hate them but the truth is it does not make you any better, just EQUAL.

Answer 2

You are close.

It is not bad that you are anyone wants to live around their own kind, but it is the fact that we do not want others who are different from us, to live in the same neighborhood- that is racist.

I beleive that many people would not mind a minority living nex tto them as long as they shared the same values. This does not mean they are the same, but they desire good schools, clean neighborhoods, safe areas.

There is a difference between your two statements- and you can see my prejudice coming out- but typically a black neighborhood is not as desirable as a white's to live. There are many exceptions to this statement. HArlem was a good example of a black neighborhood which was very desirable to live in. But over time the economic basis shifted away and the only people left there were poor who could not or did not keep up the neighborhood.

Answer 3

While fundamentally it seems unfair in reality it is fair. Whites have gone around the world colonizing and destroying indigenous cultures. We have subjugated all sorts of people; destroying their cultures and stealing their natural resources.

We have not respected other cultures for hundreds of years, and the facts about everything we have done to blacks, not even to mention Native Americans, just here in the United States did not end with the civil war.

Anyway it is like comparing apples and oranges. It is just not the same thing.

Answer 4

Your teacher is finding an excuse for racism. I would report him/her. There is no place in the classroom for that kind of misleading racist talk.
You see, people can live wherever they want, but they should not be kept out of any area because of race, creed, color, ethnicity or religion. They should be free to make that choice. Your teacher posed a totally misleading situation. It is one thing to want to be among your own people. It's quite another to be told that you must live there.

Answer 5

yep.........it is...............but, you have to remember how it became one saying with two meanings........ummmm