Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this...?

Question

A kid in my speech class got called to the office for an appt. On his way out the door, he yelled, "See you all later! I'm going to a black panthers convention!" (The kid was black, and he was kidding). The teacher didn't say a word, and even chuckled. But what I think is wierd is that if a white kid had said "Cya later! I'm going to a KKK convention!", then he would have been suspended. I'm not saying that I'm racist or anything, or a member of the KKK, but I seriously want to know if I am the only one finding something wrong with this.

Answer 1

There is something seriously wrong with it. The only thing worse than majority racism, is minority racism because the ignorant laws in effect right now protect it. Blacks are allowed to be racist against whites, gays are allowed to descriminate against heterosexuals, and other minority groups are legally entitled to behave in a manner that would end in the arrest of majority members. Reverse discrimation is rampant in this country and is just as wrong as any other kind. Untill lawmakers get the picture that discrimination and bigotry is wrong no matter who is guilty, there will never be true equality in the united states of the offended. The simple fact that some (not all) blacks use racist comments toward whites on a regular basis in public and get by with it when a white would be ran into the ground (rightfully so) and probably face legal charges for the same offense shows that the american legal system has no clue what equality is. Some of the most racist people in this country are the very ones who scream "'prejudice" when they don't get their way.

Answer 2

The Black Panthers were (are?) a militant organization, but to my knowledge, they were peacefully, but forcefully, trying to make a difference to the real racism that existed throughout American history. They could be intimitating, to be sure, but they certainly sent out a valid message.

The KKK on the otherhand is, by it's own stated nature, racist and very, very dangerous. It's my personal opinion that anyone raissing a kid in the KKK should have their parental rights revoked for child abuse and/or child endangerment. If it weren't for these in-bred, slack-jawed and ignorant fools, there probably wouldn't have ever been a need for the Black Panthers to have ever existed in the first place.

Now, to answer your question, "Do I see something wrong with this?" Yes, I do, and you are probably right that there would have been a lot more fervor over the KKK remark. BUT, inflammatory speech, which could be misconstrued as incitment to riot, although free speech, should not be tolerated in the schools. Most teens and other students haven't yet mastered the arts of self control, moral responsibility and good judgment.

Answer 3

Reverse racism is a myth. If there is no historical oppression to back up racism then it's not really racism. What is worse, a black person burning a shoebox on a white family's lawn or a white person burning a cross on a black family's lawn? One act is stupid and meaningless, the other act is frightening and intimidating.

Get smart, since when were you afraid of the black panthers? But I can tell you there are MANY black people alive today who are terrified of the KKK some may even have family members who have been lynched by the KKK. In case you didnt' know what lynching is, that's when you are dragged out of your house by a mob of people in front of your family, then driven to the woods, then beaten within an inch of your life and humiliated, then hung from a tree, and probably beaten with sticks as you die as people laugh and ridicule you and talk about how they're going to go kill your wife and kids next.

So yeah, I think the KKK comment would be many times worse than the silly joke the black kid made.

Answer 4

The KKK was organized to attack and terrify blacks and that's what they did.

The black panthers were organized (at least initially) to fight police brutality in black neighborhoods. Eventually some of them got involved in radical politics, but they mainly ended up fighting other radical black groups. At no time were the black panthers a hate group terrorizing whites. And believe it or not, there were several white members of the panthers.

Maybe you can explain why you think the two groups should be regarded as the same. Sounds to me like you should do some reading up on American history.

Answer 5

I hear this arguement everyday. Somebody would have got kicked out if they did it, but he or she didn't get kicked out when they did it. For one, it's hypothetical, nobody said they were going to a KKK convention, so you don't really know what would have happened. Next, everything is contextual. Kids can be very clear about their context, they can say very innocent things very hatefully or very ugly things in a very innocent way, then act as though context doesn't exist. I does. I kick kids out everyday for not what was said, but how it was said. They understand completely, but will play stupid... I don't care.

In short. I don't think there is anything wrong with this. It seems by what you said, everybody understood the context of it, that it wasn't ment to be offensive. Lesson... don't be offensive.

Answer 6

I can't believe you actually put the Black Panthers on the same level as the Ku Klux Klan. Black Panthers were an organisation that arose out of chaos caused by slavery and "Jim Crow". Blacks didn't say to themselves: "Hey let's start a group to totally demean and economically handicap an entire subculture because they look different from us and are therefore inhuman."

I don't how many times I've had to say this:
BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT THINK IN THOSE TERMS. WE DO NOT LOOK FOR WAYS TO CLASSIFY OTHER HUMAN BEINGS AS SUB-HUMANS!

The Panthers were sparked by anger in retaliation to civil injustice of black people. They didn't believe that non-violence BS that MLK,Jr. preached. They said what any sensible human being would say to his or her self if confronted by a bully: Fight back! Love Thyself!

They didn't go around hanging white people, cutting off their body parts and sending pictures of them to families and friends as Christmas and Easter greetings. I think one or two of them may have shot an officer. Black Panthers were trying to build up the collective Black self-esteem. They were saying: Hey! We don't have to take this crap! Fight back! Love yourself while you're at it!

I'm beginning to see that some people really don't get what has occurred in this country.

Answer 7

at first, God makes delivers all of the time. Making delivers would not make Him any much less God. 2d of all, God by no ability reported He regretted flooding the earth. He in simple terms promised he might by no ability do it returned third of all, think of approximately this: IF there's a God, that should mean that he's GOD ALMIGHTY, suited? And we are asserting IF right here, do don't get indignant. IF God exists, and He created the earth and each little thing in it, would not He have a suited to do something with it which He felt mandatory? Who might you or I be, by way of fact the creation, to query the author? he's in simple terms. the international grew to become into completely depraved and did no longer renowned the God that created it.

Answer 8

people would have had more of a negative reaction to the KKK comment because they brutally murdered hundreds, if not thousand of African Americans. what violent act did the black panthers make? All they did was expressed there freedom of speech and had marches and try to bring equality

Answer 9

The Black Panther party was not a hate group, so, no its no different than being apart of any other organization with goals to better its members lives.

Answer 10

Well, the KKK have been known to bomb, kill, rape etc....the black panthers, not so much. So maybe that's it.