2007-08-21 16:12:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Someone once said something to the effect of:They came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Jewish.They came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Catholic.They came for the Protestants and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Protestant.Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak up.Not an exact quote but you get the idea.
2007-08-21 16:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by buffalo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Racism is one of the pillars that America was founded on.Blacks have had the greatest load to bear. Laws and tradition were set up to make sure they were permanently separated. African ancestry was treated like it was a decease that had to be eradicated. All of this was based on some ideal of superiority on the part of Europeans. This thought of superiority of one race over the other is no longer fashionable but I have a belief that it still exist. Currently mid eastern people and those that look similar are the focus.Here is a thought. There is no such thing as race. White and Black are social concepts. Pigment in Humans is one color-Brown and we all fall into the same color spectrum.
2007-08-21 23:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in the US Constitution, particularly the first amendment - freedom of speech.
I think it is aweful and undeniably UNconstitutional for ANY government, regardless of whether it is federal, state, county, city, or a tiny little village to make a law that prohibits speech, under the cloak of "HATE". What does that mean anyway? That you could hurt someone's feelings? Is it illegal to hurt someoe's feelings? Or does it mean that the speech in question is so inflamatory that an offended minority might be unable to stop himself from PHYSICAL retaliation?
What does that say about the people and the lawmakers?
I'll tell you what that means - it means that law makers think so lowly of minorities that they believe that minorities are too DUMB to retaliate within the confines of the law, and that they are too WEAK MINDED, and SAVAGE to stop themselves from committing assult on the speaker or even worse.
As far as I am concerned, the laws banning speech on the grounds that they are 'hateful' is not only unconstitutional, but RACIST as well.
2007-08-21 23:26:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
nope. I judge individuals based on their own actions. Racism is just stupidly misplacing anger on people you don't know anything about. If you hate somebody it had better be because that person did something specifically to deserve it. Even then holding a grudge rarely does anybody any good.
2007-08-21 23:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by James L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes in order to come to a conclusion about how I feel about something I like to think "what would it feel like if that happened to me?"
Of course all racism is bad. It just is. You could have been born any race and it would not make any difference at all to you which one you were born so, wake up.
2007-08-21 23:16:45 · answer #5 · answered by eldude 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope.
I once went to a Dentist who was black. After strapping me in the chair he went on a racial rant. When finally I could speak, I told him about himself and that one of my parents could be of another nationality. How would he know. I told him that I'd never come back. This was 20 years ago and I never went back.
I once went into a mall in Shreveport LA. I was in the Air Force. A mall security guard suggested that I would have to steal hubcaps to make any purchases. I suggested that I intended to snatch him from behind the counter and beat his a**. He quickly walked away to the other side of the information counter. There I was serving the country, and a mall security guard felt empowered to insult me. He didn't realize that I wasn't from LA and my self esteem was fully intact.
The most hypocritical of them all, are so-called "Christians" who are racists. These are the ones who are in Church every Sunday. Yet hate everyone that has a different appearance. This is not an attack against true Christians.
In the end, racists of all colors are cowards who never speak their mind unless all of the odds are in their favor.
2007-08-21 23:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I do not support racism or hate.
2007-08-21 23:22:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Racism and hate are wrong in any situation.
2007-08-21 23:15:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They came for the Jews, but I wasn't Jewish, so I said nothing.
They came for the Catholics, but I wasn't Catholic, so I said nothing.
They came for the blacks, but I wasn't black, so I said nothing.
Then they came for me.
Racism begets racism. Hate begets hate. Bigotry begets bigotry. War begets war. -RKO- 08/21/07
2007-08-21 23:25:55 · answer #9 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO.
I do not support racism of ANY kind, even if my friends did it...
2007-08-21 23:37:49 · answer #10 · answered by linus_van_pelt_4968 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋