I see it everywhere, even when i once helped an african american couple get a TV into their car, they told me it was nice for a honkie to help out a brother and that i must have wanted money. the guy said in these words: why a honkie be helping a brother, you must want some greens cuz i aint be seing dis sh.it where i be liven. Then a few days later i was standing in line with a bunch of people and i had to pea really bad so i left to go, and when i did this nice looking black guy said: oh i see you dont want to be standing in line with no nig. I didnt even bother to say anything. Before everyone goes off sayin its because white poeple made them slaves a hundred years or so ago, remeber that i am 21 years old not a hundred years old and that i have no control over what my grampas grampa did.
2007-02-19 07:12:38 · 7 answers · asked by John Notafakename 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Remeber i said many not all. i have also met many nice African americans
2007-02-19 07:20:41 · update #1
Im not saying African Americans go around speaking poorly of caucasens all day and caucasens dont speak poorly of african americans. I know it goes both ways and i know that people have done some very horrible things to african americans.
2007-02-20 13:33:32 · update #2
to the lady that said i was saying they are all like this, look at the word MANY on my questoin, now does it say many or does it say all?
2007-02-20 13:41:22 · update #3
I understand entirely. it bothers me to no end, too. People need to move on. What happened in the past is over, and people need to realize that. More than anything, I think the "racism" card is just something people use as a crutch, a "gimme" of sorts. People are so afraid of the "race card" that they go out of their way to do things differently. It's not right.
2007-02-19 08:29:41 · answer #1 · answered by Alecto 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Who the heck do you hang around? Those both sound like odd examples. How many normal black people have you met in life? Probably about 1000 times more than the bad ones. I mind my own business and I am polite to EVERYONE.
I've had white people say bad things to me, called the N word and many racist names. But, I don't believe all or most white people are like that. I just stay nice and polite and try to do everything I can to not be a stereotype.
To make a long answer short: focus on the positive, not the negative. The two people you came across do not set the mold for how all black people act.
2007-02-20 07:17:41 · answer #2 · answered by that dead girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear you and in my job I have brown people call me honkie,cracker,white bread.But if you say one thing back you are the racist. I think most people watch too much Oprah-the biggest racist of them all.By the way--slavery was going on in Africa a long time before white people showed up and it was black Africans who sold black Africans to the whites in the first place.But it was the whites who perfected it.In the end who cares what color or shade you are-the person who points out the difference is the racist..
2007-02-21 22:04:10 · answer #3 · answered by Miz Val 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I know what you mean. About the TV thing, that's when you let it drop on the guy's foot! No, that would be mean and he would probably charge you with a hate crime. About the guy in line, you should have said something like, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. Would you be less racist if I peed on your shoes?" or "You wanna come stand next to me while I go pee now?"
I used to work in a liquor store in college. This African American used to come in about 3 times every shift with change she had found on the sidewalk and in change trays at gas stations and all that and buy the cheapest half-pint we had, whatever it was. She smelled so bad and she always kept any paper money she did have to pay with in her bra, so she'd reach in between her boobs to pull out her boob-sweat money to hand it to you. One of the guys working dropped change in her hand once instead of touching her hand to give it to her. She said, "you don't want to touch my hand because I'm black". When she was out of earshot, he goes, "no, it's because you're a dirtbag." I also had a friend in college who would yell about the "system keeping him down" because they wanted to kick him out of school. I just said "No, it's because you get high or drunk every day and ask for professors to basically do your work for you and are in the lab always asking other students for answers and stuff and skip class so much and hand in stuff late all the time, not because you're black, so don't even play that card." He said, "the professors know I do that?" and he just smiled. It made me want to punch him.
2007-02-19 16:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Lady in Red 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I see your point. Some black people do blame the "system" for their failures. Then there are many of us who work hard and do the best we can. Yes, some of us are discriminated against and I have been personally. However, I have moved on and learned not dwell on those things because they are not going to keep me down. And I sincerely believe that those who have discriminated against me are not in the majority of white people.
2007-02-20 21:18:00 · answer #5 · answered by bajan_75 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i Think we are all human no matter what color we have
and we need to respect each other
i think African Americana need to stop using n word and stop being so sensitive about their color
whatever happened in th e past it happened and you can't change it
so let's just be friend together and let's make the future that our kids won't need to say same thing that we say about our grandparents
2007-02-22 00:36:58 · answer #6 · answered by mary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why do you say all African Americans think that? there is your answer, cuz stupid people like you cant individualize you categorize
2007-02-21 02:36:45 · answer #7 · answered by a.j holliday 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋