2007-01-22 17:31:33 · 5 answers · asked by Rachel T. 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Los Angeles
Actually, no, racial tension is everywhere, not just America.
Racism, like any hate, comes from fear. I don't think it's relative only to Long Beach. If you live there, you may see it more, but I definitely saw it in the state I used to live in, too.
2007-01-23 04:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by hopem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as we're all different, there will be racial tension *everywhere* not just Long Beach, CA.
2007-01-23 12:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not just in Long Beach it's from CA to ME and everywhere in between funny how racial tension ends at the American Boarders
2007-01-22 19:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by Czech_Mark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ironically it is everywhere. Just tonight I took my teenage son and his friend to the mall, they were going to buy something like a sweatshirt. They were at the mall for maybe 30 minutes, when they did not find what they wanted in one store they went to another. As soon as they entered the store someone (customer)made an obvious comment about them being in the store and about their skin color, and alluded to basically assaulting them.
I do not encourage predjudice of my son, it seems that he harbors enough on his own between situations like the above and school. He has had personal items stolen from him and has been blatently taunted about it by the thief at school, and just today his bike got stolen from the front yard of his friends house.
This is the second bike in less than 9 months that he has had stolen from him. I do not advocate him assualting anyone or being predjudice, but would I be realistic in expecting him to not be angry, or predjudice? I do not want to see him hurt in anyway and I am trying to teach him that predjudice is wrong, but the very people who cry predjudice are the ones creating it.
It is a two way street here, if you don't like how people see you, or those like you, maybe your attitudes and actions need to be evaluated and possibly changed. Predjudice is wrong but it is an excuse, and I refuse to acknowledge it where nothing is being done to change the very attitudes and behavior which create it to begin with.
While I am trying to do the right thing as a responsible parent, some of what I am trying to teach my son is being undermined right before my eyes. I would be an idiot to say I would not feel predjudice myself, if I were in his place. I find myself being a hypocrit, which I despise. I try to teach him to not be predjudice, while others give him every reason (and right) to be predjudice, by the way he's treated by them. Go figure?
As far as I am concerned I don't give a f**k what color, origin, ethnicity. You act like you want to be treated, and only you can be blamed or held responsible for that.
By the way... I'm not Black, not white. I am yellow - as in Asian, and I too, feel predjudice and have felt racial tension my whole life. When was the last time you saw Asian people screaming "predjudice" because someone won't just hand them something?
2007-01-23 18:18:46 · answer #4 · answered by konstipashen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What racial tension? There was only one incident on Halloween Night when a group of black girls beat down three white girls.
2007-01-25 09:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋