Why do you think SOME racial minorities think all or most white ppl are racist?

Question

okay so IM BLACK and i'll be the first to admit that 1. i do recognize the racial oppression by white people in the past and present and 2. being that i have been brought up among primarily "white cultures" (if there is such a thing) as well as a few others - sometimes im kind of oblivious to racist attitudes and intentions. anyway, my parents anda few other black, hispanic and asian people i know are always over analyzing situations in some attempt to withdraw the racist element. and im sure that at least half of the time they are right because lets face it - theres a lot of racism out there. what does annoy me are the relatively few (in comparison with the racist history of our country) situations where minorities take advantage of white ppl using the race card ( the Duke students accused of rape for example) its fine when you are being truthful and feel discrimination but to use the history of injustice to blame every wht person as racist...a little extreme or is that just me?

lmao omg the brian dude has truly lost his ******** mind...i never said i hate anyone. lol wow...

Answer 1

Well... I am Hispanic and I was born in this country but grew up overseas where I was never discriminated on the basis of race. I came to college in the US and used to get hate messages written all over the dorm where I was staying. Delights such as: " go back to where you came from, ****". I was fired from a job where my evaluations said everything was acceptable to excellent and given the reason I just did not fit in. The woman that fired me said indian cooking stunk but maybe it wasn't their cooking but their feet since they took their shoes at the door but of course she wasn't racist-even the white woman at human rights did not think that was racist but she too made the comment that my son, whom is half white, does not look like me then apologized stating she did not mean I was black(how enlightened for a human rights investigator. What findings did I expect after that?) I could write all night the many slights I have experienced through out the years but the bottom line is your question should not be how come some racial minorities think all or most white ppl are racist. It should be how come some white ppl don't realize that a great percentage of white people are racist but the racism is covert (hidden) versus overt(blatant) because it is not politically correct to be a racist. Do some minorities exploit that? Of course! they do that the same way some white ppl exploit prejudices to belittle minorities. It doesn't make it right but they use it simply because it works!!! and it works because many white ppl recognize themselves that there is a lot of hidden prejudice and minorites learn it first hand as I did when I first came back to the country. Maybe some day when we can all sing ":We are the world" and hold hands in harmony white ppl will stop using stereotypes to bring someone down or get them fired etc and maybe the minorites will reciprocate by owning up to what they do, but so long as there is a group of people feeling pushed out of place from society, the struggle and the lying and the tit for tat will go on.

Answer 2

It's cultural conditioning. People had negative experiences with a few individuals or a group generalized and applied this to everyone even resembling the group and then passed it on to others like their friends and their children. This was taught to their children, etc. Same as with any other belief system, including the supposed racism always applied to white people. If a white person is racist, they were probably taught to be that way or had negative experiences with people of other races and applied that to everyone of that race. The same is true when people make generalities about and are racist against white people. Most whites aren't racist and if they discuss race it's just commentary on their experiences and observations just like anyone else. You're right in beginning to notice this.

Answer 3

I don't. But, my biggest oppressors are my own people and Euroamerican people combined. At the same time, I have enjoyed my cup overflowing because of Euroamericans, yet, also have had it emptied by them, and compounded by my own. Euroamerica is not white, white is an old racial Eugenic category from the 1930's, Hitler sure ruined it for those who thought racial classifications were right. Euroameriacan implies that it is a hybrid European culture, it is a salad culture, yet, it is eclectic and number one because of the diversity and its willingness to be number 1, and its willingness to cast off the old and bring in the new. I know that my career was ruined by my confronting Federal Government officials about bias in interpretations of Pre-Colombian Native people. I told them they were recreating themselves in the archaeological record. And, some of them are and will continue to do so. I do not dislike EuroAmericans, sometimes, the whole conglomeration of traits can make anyone from any genetic grouping very attractive. I dislike mean people, people who make claims and say things that are not true and have no qualitative or factual basis. Although, I have trouble with thinking anything is a fact. The Duke thing was one bad thing, but I am sure if minorities, such as colonialist minorities like Native Americans, Native Mexicans and so forth, have experienced debilitating prejudice. America, lets face it, is black and white, now Christian and Muslim, it does not see its first people. Anyway, I feel sort of bitter and angry right now, I am never hired, while white females (but am happy they have a job) and other folks who lack my credentials are pushed ahead of me for political reasons. But I do not dislike Euroamericans for it, I dislike particular cultural patterns that are sick and sorry, but dislike the individuals who perpetuate it.....

Answer 4

I agree with CRK 100%

I was raised in a "black" neighborhood and I'm hispanic, so I suffered alot of discrimination from them but I never had the chance (as I was growing up) to interact with white people so I haven't had a bad experience with them yet. I'm not saying that white people is not racist because it is obvious that they are just like any other race, this world is a rainbow and everybody still against everybody, sadly but true! :(

Answer 5

jointly as at one time there would have been oppression of minorities, that factor has long considering previous. you desire to offer the minorities a loose bypass on what they themselves have created. there is such difficulty as very own accountability. whether it have been the "white guy" who extra drugs in, did they stress them to do those drugs? No. It replaced right into a call made via the minority him/herself. on the comparable time, you fail to confirm the becoming oppression of the white race in this usa. Michael Richards, Imus, and the two disc jokey's that have been suspended is purely the top of the iceburg. And this is purely going to worsen. loose speech purely exists while you're a minority. i do no longer evaluate that to be oppression.

Answer 6

For the record, I'm a blue eyed blonde. OK truth be told about half my hair has fallen out and of the half which remains most of that has turned grey, but I used to be a blonde, once upon a time. My grandparents came from Norway and Germany and Ireland.

Yes racial oppression occured a lot a long time ago and it occurs less today than it did before. And as time goes on its getting better.

Depending on what part of the country you are in this may happen more or less than in other parts of the country.

In my view the deep south, South Carolina in particular is the most biggoted state we have left.

For example on Martin Luther King day last January, I was online chatting on Yahoo chat with two college students.

One was a guy attending a Baptist college in Minnesota

The other was girl attending an Assembly of God college in the suburbs of Seattle.

Both schools had no classes on Martin Luther King day.

Just for fun, I picked up the phone and called Bob Jones University in South Carolina and they were having classes that day.

Then I sent an E-mail to the President of BJU and in his reply its obvious to me that:

1. He is a bigot

and

2. He really doesn't know any better because that's how he was raised and that is so sad.

To argue with a Baptist from South Carolina is about as hopeless as arguing with a Catholic from Boston.

I really felt sorry for the guy.

On the other hand, why the other 99% of good black preachers don't defrock the "Rev. Jesse Jackson" and kick him out, for fathering a child out of wedlock is beyond me.

When a bunch of white preachers 20 years ago got caught with their pants down, their mainly white denominations kicked them out of the church pretty quickly.

I refer to Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman, who all had TV ministries.

I just don't understand why the "Rev. Jessie Jackson" is not given the left foot of fellowship by his peers.

And I don't say that because he is black. I say that because he's a horrible role model for other black young men. The message has gone out, "its ok to have an affair and have a child out of wedlock as long as you pay child support."

Balogna!

I also don't understand why Cardinal Law in Boston did what he did, allowing all those child abusers to continue on as Priests.

If I was President Bush I'd tell the Pope to send Cardinal Law back so he can spend the rest of his life in a US jail and if the Pope refused to send him back, I'd send in the Marines.

I hope the Texas legislature has the guts to pass a law to start putting 2 time child sexual predators to death!

Pastor Art

Answer 7

I think that as Americans we've forgotten how institutionalized and subtle racism was ingrained into every facet of our society especially after the civil war and Jim Crow days.

Answer 8

It comforts them to think so. They can then explain away every experience or their personal inadequacies as racism. There is racism, there is no question about that. But one can't chalk up being a slouch and not graduating high school as racism when one cut school, but now when on the job search talk about life is unfair. That doesn't cut it.

Answer 9

The duke case is a bad example. 1. because they are exonerated, and 2. the prosecutor was white.

I personally think much of racism, though subtle, is unintentional on the part of the average white person. Although there is plenty of intentional racism to go around. I think most people, black and white are just programmed to think a certain way.

Answer 10

Yes, I've seen it many, many times. A prime example is a woman was refused a government handout because she wasn't eligible (she earned too much money). She accused the system of being racist.

I see that type of thing happening all the time.