Why are there so many racial double standards?

Question

I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for asking that, but I just can't help but notice it all the time. Why is it widely sociably acceptable for a black man to call another black man the "N" word while its racist for a white man to do it?
Why is it that there are so many racialy based scholorships and schools that are mostly funded to allow minorities at the exclusion of a majority of caucasion? Why is there not a White Entertainment Television channel?
These are all things that I have really wondered, and for all the questioning and the hatred that minorities have toward white people, I cant offer any kind of explanation for your hardships rather then to tell you to look in the mirror and blame who you see staring back at you for you're misfortune.
So why do we accept the double standards?

You guys are all providing excellent feedback, Its gonna be hard choosing a best answer.
Just wanted to explain my "mirror" comment though.
I think that in this country, regardless of what you race/color/creed/sex is, you have every single God given oppurtunity to succeed in life. I can't think of any place in at least the United States that I know of, that you cant go to school, all the way through high school. All it takes is the will to succeed. Now i'm not saying there are not going to be bigots and idiotic people who discriminate along the way, but that is no reason or excuse for failing to succeed. The only person that can keep you from succeeding, is you. Thats why i say blame yourself, not some other racial/political/sexual/ party or group. Hope that clears up my view a little. Your thoughts?

I'd like to thank kkk_faghater for giving the rest of humanity a bad name. He has been reported.

Answer 1

I usually skip these kind of questions but...
I believe that more and more Americans are starting to speak out about this double standard. I'm not just talking about the racial groups that make all white people look bad. People from all different groups/income levels/ages are talking about this and not just on yahoo. This whole Imus thing has people fired up on both sides of the fence. I have personally experienced racism for being white so I understand the whole double standard issue. As to why it is, I don't know... Us white people always have to be so darn PC about everything. All I can say is that as it really is that white Americans are becoming a minority. I feel we must rally behind the political leaders who are leaning towards true equality and offering nothing special for any group based upon skin color/sexual orientation. Write your leaders and explain your feelings in a decent way, eventually when enough people speak up, then we will stop being so PC and take notice.
People need judged by character and nothing more.

Answer 2

You state:

Why is it widely sociably acceptable for a black man to call another black man the "N" word while its racist for a white man to do it?

My response:

The n word is not one that I agree with. It is not in my vocabulary or the vocabulay of a lot of black people that I know, then again I don't know all the black here in America. If you do you should ask them. If you hear black person calling
another black person that, stop what you are doing and ask them that!

You have the power to make change.

You State:
Why is it that there are so many racialy based scholorships and schools that are mostly funded to allow minorities at the exclusion of a majority of caucasion?

My response:
There are scholorships for almost any entity you can think of.
Scholorships can be found for the following categories!
Handicapped
disabled
women
domestic abuse victims
decendants of a particuler european nationality
black
hispanic
asian
indian
rape victims
Cancer patients
Heart Patients
and the list goes on

Scholorships are sponsered by so many diverse organiztions for diverse people with different backgrounds, you yourself can find an organization to sponser scholorship for causcasians. Caucasians are not excluded!

You State:
Why is there not a White Entertainment Television channel?

You have to understand that BET covers news and shows specific to black people that the mainstream news does not cover. There was a time that the videos you saw on Bet could not be seen on MTV or VH-1 so you had to watch Bet to see it. Not all black people watch BET, there are a large number of non-black people that do. To each its own!

Other channels that cater to a specific ethnic groups are Telemundo, Unavision and the numerous other spanish channels!

On cable you even have a womens channel known as lifetime! for men in general you have Espn!

Its all about choices and what each of us likes. At one point there was no choices for many minorities, so BET was created Miss Black America was created, Miss Latina USA,Miss Asian America.

We still live in a very racist society that practices institutionalized racism, thats why you call it a double standard because this type of racism is not meant to be seen, it is intended to keep things a certain way. Its up to me and you to make the change, that is if you want to. I know what i am going to do about it!

What are you going to do?

Don't believe the hype!

Answer 3

The N word thing is about familiarity. You can probably call your family names in jest, but if a stranger did, that would be out of order. It's the same with the N word. Much more important than that though is what the N word represents when a white person says it compared to when a black person says it. When a white person says it, it carries with it all the contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks in the past.

The scholarship thing is positive discrimination at work, and while I can see why it's done (to encourage and recruit minority ethnicity students) I don't agree with it.

There is not a White Entertainment Channel because whites have never been in the minority and so have never felt the need to 'shout louder' to get their voice heard - minority voices have to 'shout louder' to get heard.

As for the comment about looking in the mirror, either you're on the wind-up or you're very ignorant of history and the abomination that was the slave trade. Instead of complaining about things, you should be grateful you're not being transported to Africa to be made to work your butt off in a field somewhere for the rest of your life.

Answer 4

Black parents whoop their kids for using the N-word. The n-word is not spoken in my mom house. Not in my grand mother house, and it won't be tolerated by my kids. Only the ignorant black people call each other that because ignorant parents raised them and their parents parents were just as ignorant.

No educated black person with common sense would have a conversation using any profanity.

If you have a problem with black people calling each other the N-word I am with you! And its a good thing that you are concerned. But if the only reason you are concerned is because they can say it but you can't, your priority is in the wrong place!

If you want to know why their isn't a B.E.T for white people that's because you don't need it.

Right now! turn your television on and just flip the channels. Every channel is a white person. You can count on one hand how many black people you see, not looking at B.E.T.
You can count on one hand how many Hispanics you see and that's not counting the Hispanic channel were all they speak is Spanish.

you probably don't even need all five fingers on your hand.

If black people are being racist, who can blame us. We have a reason to feel and act the way we do! You don't have to put up with things like racial profiling.

Unlike a white spoiled brat, instead of arguing about why daddy won't by me a Lexus. Black people contemplate about getting a job just to pay for school.

Answer 5

Because minorities are usually discriminated and therefore they do not have equal rights nor opportunities as the majority. Its like saying why indians have scholarships? well their land was taken by the majority along with opportunities for their kids and the kids of their kids and so on, so therefore, they need a make up, just a reminder, everything was taken from them and all the richness of the US and the majority who enjoys it now is due to such a violent immigration.

Its ok for a AFRICAN AMERICAN to call whatever he wants to another AFRICAN AMERICAN because it is used in a different context. It is not intended to be put down or hurt, insult. Now, its not ok for an Asian, white, latino, to be saying the N word. Besides its not ok to do that even within their own commuity but its not of our business how they call each other. Simply, don't get involve in other communities business if you don't understand them. Just respect them, plain simple. For me is like you saying "why are we sending this rapist to jail if many kids have been raped before?"

You are nobody to be telling them how they should behave when they talk to their friends, they told you already they don't like the N word from other races -not only white- so why can't you understand that it hurts? Dont you know their history of slavery and that the ones who slave them use the N word?

I would allow my friend call me b word for example but i would never allow some stranger do that, i will consider that disrespectful.

I guess you would need to be a minority in such a racist society so as for you to understand that is not easy to be negatively stereotype by media, job, society, etc etc etc.

You can not tell me whites suffer of hate or discrimination as the minorities because we all know its not true. There aren't hate groups out there after them because of their skin color.

Face it, we live in a racist society and that is why you have to be sensitive. Unless you live in wordenland, then you would not have noticed that there isn't such thing as equal opportunites, there are groups highly underserved.

Answer 6

Spot on. @mr dance moves- There is no white history month though. There is Asian pacific islander month,black history month, hispanic history month, and native american history month. What group of people are missing from the groups i listed? Caucasian. @you can't block- you sir are probably the biggest idiot on this thing i have seen so far. White people made more inventions and contributed more to society then you can imagine. We got PLENTY to be proud about, even if you count all the evil things we have done. We have done a LOT more good. @mr dance whatever the hell your name is- My mistake, hispanic is a culture, not a race. But you say white is not a culture? Than black isn't a culture either you idiot. @baby kane - Okay, I am going to list the ppositives and the negatives. Here we go Negative-slavery of africans, colonization of africans,vikings killing the natives, christopher columbus and the spaniards killing natives,the colonization of america which lead to the killing of natives. Okay, now the positives- Darwin (A white man) Created the theory of evolution, Albert einstein (Pretty self explanatory, and please don't say he is not white. Jews are white.),Created the airplane,contibuted so much to art (Leonardo da vinci, Van gogh etc), Cured polio,made it possible for people to walk on the moon,Most forms of math today was created by white people,most medicines were created by white people,most machines and inventions you see today were originally created by white people. And all of this is off the top of my head, they probably even have done more. @chani- slavery happened to different cultures also in america, the orientals,natives, and the irish and they don't even bring that up in any school history book. And egyptions and ethiopeans are. they were middle eastern/berber and not sub saharan african which is black. And west asians (middle easterners indians etc) are caucasian, it's not always about skin color.

Answer 7

Do you want to use the "N" word use it, but why would you want to? Why would ANYONE want to use such a degrading word? Look up the history in the word than come back to me with that one. I am sure when someone of the same race calls someone such a stupid term they dont mean it in a racist way. (but NO ONe should use a word that has so terrible history behind it)
There are all types of scholarships-for native americans, for people who write with their left hand, for people who have red hair (READ A BOOK) dont you know that there was a time when blacks werent even allowed to learn to read (RENT ROOTS)
dont you know BET was started because there was a time Mtv didnt play black artists? Mtv 101 learn it.
Sounds like you need to read up on some history, you know the kind they dont teach in your school, than you come back and tell me about hardships.

Answer 8

Very good question, in my opinion society has a way for flickering the flame of injustice on all sides. I personally do not accept double standards. I feel if your wrong your wrong and if your right your right. Color of a persons skins should be sidestepped because underneath our skin when have the same things. We are all humans, when will we all see that we are all no different from another, period.

Answer 9

i think your looking to closely at it. i would look more at what you have and what similarities you have with people irregardless of race, religion, sexual identity, etc etc. you single out just those things. if you want a white entertainment, why don't you get a show started? if you want a scholorship, why don't you apply? if you want why don't you call a caucasian man a honky, get that going and maybe will become a popular thing. why look at differences and what you don't have. if you dont' have it, then your not going out to get it. nothing comes free irregarless of race, age, sexual identity, religion. work and you shall recieve

Answer 10

I don't think it's acceptable for anyone to call someone else the "N" word, regardless of race, or if they're just joking around. In fact, I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to call someone else by a term that is demoralizing - one race to another, one gender to another, etc.
I think that the scholarships are there to award the achievements of students who might not have been afforded the same educational opportunity as their caucasian counterpart. They are not there to exlcude caucasians, but they are there to include other races. In regards to BET, it's also a way to include blacks. It wasn't made to exlcude whites.
Assuming that we are accepting of double standards is a stereotype in and of itself.