Questions about Blacks???

Question

People often post questions on here which are inclusive of negative generalizations and stereotypes about blacks. Yet they start they begin posing the question with a disclaimer which reads, "I'm not racist." Do you ever wonder if they're simply trying to anger the African Americans and the other civilized Americans (of different races) who peruse this forum? Are people really so ignorant of US history and basic logic in 2007?

Answer 1

Yes. Small minds, low self esteem, looking for someone else to blame for a situation, misery, seeing themselves in the stereo types of others and plain old fear. Yahoo Answers has given a large portion of these people a secret place to vent. That's ok. It's like releasing steam. What we have to do is realize most are insecure, scared, unhappy people, doing what scared and unhappy people do...spew venom.

Answer 2

I am not sure but I do know that many black people do the same thing. I have responded to a few, but try to ignore most of them.
I can't stand stereotyping of any race, religion or even the sexes.
I am not sure why anyone of this day and age would have so much hate and ignorance towards other group of people without realizing they are not all the same.

Answer 3

In the past few years, there's been some confusion regarding a "racist" statement and a "racial" statement. A racist statement would be something about black people and welfare, Mexican people and the Rio Grande, or Asian people and cameras. A racial statement would be something about black people and curly hair, Asian people and slanted eyes, or white people burning to a crisp in the sun. The first set of statements is racist, meaning sets of ideas that are harmfully associated with a certain race. The second set of statements is racial, meaning sets of characteristics that can be associated with the vast majority of members of a certain race. For example, Asian people have slanted eyes. That's not a racist statement, it's a racial one. Black people have big lips--a racial statement, not a racist one. White people burn to a crisp in the sun--a racial statement, not a racist one.

We are different races--we can't deny that fact. Humanity is genetically divided into distinct races. When we talk about the physical characteristics of those races, we're not being racist. When we associate character traits with certain races, that is racist. It might be a fine line, but it's a line nonetheless.

Answer 4

Telling the truth about something, negative or positive, offensive or not, does not make someone a racist. Just because you are offended by the truth does not give you the right to shout "Racist" at someone.

If you don't like the stereotypes generalizations then tell the blacks to stop proving them true. Our brains stereotype because usually there is some truth to it. That is logic at best.

Why would you market relaxers to white people? Wouldn't you assume that mostly only black women would use it because they have nappy hair? How is that being racist? We all see what we see, and denying it wouldn't do any good but make us look ignorant and defensive.

http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19980501-000029.html

Answer 5

African American interesting how people use this term. I am second generation U.S. citizen from Ireland, but I have never asked to be called Irish American. Many of my associates in the past were of every nationality but we all were U.S. citizens not: Chinese Americans, English Americans, European Americans, and most of these " African Americans" Are at least 2 generation Americans so why are they special? deserving of a special title?

Answer 6

Yes

They also do it regarding Muslims. I have also seen it towards Hindus in here.

I do not know why. There are also those who come in here posing as nice people who are known in here. They ask very offencive questions knowing it will get sincere answers from some and blacken the reputation of the person whose name they stole. It is always racially or religiously based and smutty.

You kinda wonder.

Ok, remember one of the men who helped build the US was the man who created the KKK. I refer to Albert Pike of the Illuminati and Freemasons. A few quotes and you will see his mindset.

This man was one of the highest Freemasons in America and very influential in the policies set at the time. America is run by wealthy white christian and jewish males. They just plain don't want to share and manage to keep prejudice alive using media and culture to made the agenda.

Directed to the 23 Supreme Councils of the Illuminati 4 June 1889:

"To you, Sovereign Instructors of Grade 33, we tell you: you have to repeat
to the brothers of inferior grades that we worship only one God to whom we
pray without superstition. It is we, Initiated in the Supreme Grade, that are to keep the real Masonic religion preserving pure the Lucifer doctrine"

- Albert Pike - (Illuminati, founder of the Ku Klux Klan)

We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effects of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.

Illustrious Albert Pike 33°
Letter 15 August 1871
Addressed to Grand Master Giuseppe Mazzini 33°
Archives British Museum
London, England

As owner-publisher of the Memphis, Tennessee, Daily Appeal, Albert Pike wrote in an editorial on April 16, 1868: "With Negroes for witnesses and jurors, the administration of justice becomes a blasphemous mockery. A Loyal League of Negroes can cause any white man to be arrested, and can prove any charges it chooses to have made against him. ...The disenfranchised people of the South ... can find no protection for property, liberty or life, except in secret association.... We would unite every white man in the South, who is opposed to ***** suffrage, into one great Order of Southern Brotherhood, with an organization complete, active, vigorous, in which a few should execute the concentrated will of all, and whose very existence should be concealed from all but its members."

- Albert Pike on KKK -

Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

- Illustrious Albert Pike 33°
Sovereign Grand Commander
Mother Supreme Council of the World
THE SUPREME COUNCIL of the Thirty-Third and Last Degree
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Morals and Dogma, page 103 -

The only thing you can do is live by your conscience and do what is right. Try to make the world a better place. I just refuse to engage in nastiness. I have had slurs thrown at me and just look at where it comes from. Then I smile and move on. If I know it will not acerbate things, I will wish peace upon the person, but that can backfire.

Answer 7

I have my beliefs.I do not believe in hatred because of skin color.God has made all of us equal.He would not like us to treat any creature he made to be treated badly.You sound like a very bright person and what you say is true.Most people who say that they are not racist are.I believe that everyone can be to some degree.many of us have been brain washed from the time we were young.

Answer 8

I used to play that game. Its getting boring, the white people aren't really intellectually up to a challenging debate. They only have the same tired assumtions to fall on.

And when you pose question about there stereotyoes they get mad and report you.

Answer 9

They really are that ignorant. They truly believe in a made up history and so called facts they come up with. Trash controls nothing, don't let it get to you.

Answer 10

"Are people really so ignorant of US history and basic logic in 2007?"

HEck yeah....from our President to street guy