Are minorities losing all credibility with you for calling every act they don't agree with "racism"?

Question

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=631980
Foul called on locked hoops
Parent to file complaint against Brown Deer schools

*****Some African-American residents in the village think, however, that the device is robbing youths of their right to use the courts. They think the action is racially motivated, and they're letting the school district know.*****

THE REASON:
Peuse said the decision to place the devices on the hoops came after two "troubling" incidents at the courts.

"We recently had a situation where students leaving the court were robbed," he said. "One day we had some gunshots."

Lt. Robert Halverson of the Brown Deer Police Department said Tuesday that there have been at least eight incidents at the site.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Answer 1

I think if this man wants his son to play basketball, he should by a hoop and install it at home. Why is it the schools responsibility to provide a place for basketball when school is not in session? Everything is racism when your not giving handouts....

Answer 2

Thankfully, the NAACP just buried the "N" word. I think the brotha's will miss it most though.

Seriously.. it's too bad when the thugs ruin it for everyone else.. I used to play a lot of evening basketball..the cops used to patrol the area and were happier to see us playing hoop then running the neighborhoods.

It's really a case of a lazy law enforcement.. they should be more actively patrolling, especially on foot and bikes. It is a fact that area's patrolled on foot and bike have much less crime and more proactive on crime. Putting the bars over the hoops is ridiculous.

"Lt. Robert Halverson of the Brown Deer Police Department said Tuesday that there have been at least eight incidents at the site." >>>>>>> If they patrol the area.. maybe there would be ZERO incidents. Isn't that what we pay outrageous local taxes for????

Answer 3

(pls note this answer was not proof read for spelling or typos)

I think I understand both sides, but there has to be a better way of dealing with this incident. The PTA should become involved if the school is "play ground" in the summer, and have some parents show up to supervise the children while they play. The school is looking out to stop a potential law suit for dammages against loss of property or injury sustained on school grounds, I bet they never saw this lawsuit comming.

If this city needs the school to have a safe enviroment for kids to play regardless of race (the article mentioned this is a predominantly AA population in this area) then the city should address this issue in a positive way to encourage athletic pursuits in the summer as this father wants for his child. I believe he has a valid complaint, I'm not sure he is dealing with it in the right way.

But both the school and the parents are gonna have to make an effort to deal with this situation. Like mimum operation hours of say 7am to 5pm, as any young man as pictured in the referenced article should be headed home about 5pm anyway. And men / fathers of these children need to be available to the school district as much as possible to volunteer to supervise. Especially if they want their kids to use this facility after 5pm to say 9pm. I also believe the local police authorities are a bit lax in their patrols of this area, considering the recent wave in child abductions, and asults on children by adults in all areas of the US, across all economic levels. Yep they need to have, they need to have one less doughnut and drive by the school yard more often.

The law suit is totally unnessary, and can be avoided, saving the school and the plaintiff money and time and hurt feelings in the long run.

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Answer 4

I kid you not this really happened to me.

Years ago when I was a security guard for Diamond Walnut in Stockton,California there was a no parking zone right next to the Security Office where I was stationed.

One morning a woman parked her car in the 'No Parking Zone' and I went outside to inform her that she couldn't park her car there and asked her to please move it and I pointed to an area just ahead of her and told her she could park there.

Well it just so happened that I'm white and she was black and she became extremely offended by my asking her to move her car and told me that I'm just a racist bit*% and said she isn't moving her car anywhere.
I told her that I'm not being racist that the no parking sign applies to everyone regardless of their racial background.
And I told her that there's a very good reason why no one could park there.
She then told me that if I didn't move away from her car that she was going to get out and kick my a**.

So I said OK and went back to the office and watched what would happen next.

The employees came out of the plant and one of them got into his car,started it up and backed up right into the drivers side of her car broadsiding it with her still in it.

In the winter the windshields would ice up and they would back up without looking assuming no one was parked behind them in the no parking zone.

Needless to say the woman was truely pissed and couldn't blame the accident on racism because the guy who backed up into her was the same color as she.

I sat in my office and just smiled at the poetic justice of it all.

Suffice it to say there are people out there who honestly feel that rules and certain situations do not apply to them because they have a special race card and carry it around with them everywhere they go.

If a School feels it is in the best interest of everyone to ban playing basket ball on School property because of past safety issues involving firearms and foul play then they are completely within their rights to do so.
It doesn't mean that any particular group is being targeted for racial discrimination.
It just means that the School isn't going to wait until someone does get hurt before anything is done about it which is the responsible thing to do.

If I were the one making the decisions I would make it a rule that they could play there only with the supervision of an adult and if they didn't like that then I would remove the basket ball court altogether.
It's getting to the point where I am so sick of hearing the word 'Racism' that I can't stand hearing it anymore.
It has completely lost all credibility with me simply because of how many times it has been used illegitimately for reasons that are personally motivated to either get away with something or to justify hurting the one whose being called a racist.
It's also being used to put someone else on the defensive so as to change the subject and throw them off course.

It's really ridiculous the accusations people will make when they are in the wrong and want to get away with doing whatever it is they're doing.

Answer 5

Anytime the word "racist" is thrown about I have my doubts. 90% of the time--it's a ploy. I had to chuckle when I read, "It just looks so offensive"....it's a friggin 'club'. Are there swastikas painted on them? NO! Does it say "Only whites after 7:00 PM? No! How is it offensive? NO ONE can play ball at night-at least for now, but it definately was not racially motivated. Safety seems to be the motivating factor for the school district.

Answer 6

I think they create racism themselves. Look at rap stars - how do they behave? What are they telling young people is acceptable? Seriously, sometimes people have stereotypes (which are never good) but sometimes people are all too willing to fit into those stereotypes too. It really saddens me because people could be/do so much more in life.

Answer 7

The people that call EVERYTHING racist never had credibility with me. I don't believe the represent the majority of the 'groups' they claim to represent either. I don't see minorities, as a whole claiming racism.

Short form: Those making the claim never had credibility to lose.

Answer 8

Sometimes I think people do it more out of habit than out of real conviction. It doesn't really bother me.

I listen long enough to sort it into one category or the other, and if it sounds like habit to me, I sometimes just tune it out. Otherwise, I usually keep listening on the theory that I might learn something.

Answer 9

RLP, you are such a horrible person. You are the text book RepubliCon; You hate gays, minorities, non-Christians....pretty much anything that you disagree with is bad.

"Really Loving Person": How many gay people do you know? How many black people do you know? How many of your children are serving in Iraq? How many people in your family are starving? How many minorities do you know? Would you ever allow any of these people in your home? How often do you use the N word?

BTW, I know the answer to all these questions.

Answer 10

people who misuse racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry hurt the real victims.

its not racist. at least all they did was put a lock on it, in other neighborhoods people get sick of replacing equiptment and once its stolen or damaged no one puts in a replacement.