Black people.

People who are unwilling to see beneath appearances are saying a lot more about themselves than they are about any group they happen to harbor a bias against.

I see people. I see with every individual a story that could be told. Someone of a different race can offer the perspective of being at the business end of someone else's ignorance simply by being themselves. I don't really see race so much as I see how someone is choosing to carry themselves. There's a "chip on your shoulder" air that knows no racial boundaries. People with class are decent people regardless of background, skin color, etc. They are just people as you said.

 

I don't judge people (strangers) by the way they look

I judge people by the way they look at me

Even if a big black dude looks like a thug, if he doesn't look at me in a threatening way, I don't judge him as a threat. But if a guy looks perfectly respectable except for the fact that he's eyeing me in an unpleasant way, I think "danger"

 

I would agree with most people on here in that I would judge someone less about race but on how they act and carry themselves. Dressing and acting thuggish or gangsta is not going to earn much in the way of respect from me, and that includes all races, like wise to skin head types and junkies are also high on my list. I would be pretty quick to judge any of these stereotypes when first seeing this person and would probably not seek a friendship with that them. However if someone of any race carries themselves well and has a non threatening air about them I would give them the same chance I would anyone. Like Stinkfoot said its the people with a obvious chip on their shoulders that one would do well to avoid. But all this being said I am not a real people person in general and try to avoid meeting people of any race.

 

its like mlk said. judge not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.

i think the culture today forgets the second part which effectively lumps all people into one pot and says to accept all of them regardless of whether they are lazy etc.

 

I get nervous around thuggish, gangsterish looking, acting people no matter what color. No single race has that market cornered. I see thug the same way I see mafia culture, or biker gang culture, or outlaw redneck methhead culture, or neo-nazi/white supremacist culture, or triads, or mara salvatrucha - I understand that each is a reaction to social injustice, but what causes me to shun or avoid it, is the very real aspect of violence and murder that seems to be an integral part of those cultures. That's one of the main reasons I am a peace loving, hippie. I'm painfully aware of social injustice, but I'm also painfully aware that violence is self indulgent and wasteful.

Violence sucks - the human sphere is troubled quite enough with disease and social inequities. Add violence, war, greed, hatred and intolerance into and you have the shitty, tragic mess we all find ourselves in. The thing I will never understand is poor on poor violence. The thugs over at Englewood aren't the ones causing you to live abject poverty, but the elites sure as hell want to keep you there. As someone who has lived in abject poverty, I understand the sense of helplessness and frustration, but shooting your equally poor and disenfranchised neighbor over some stupid bullshit notion of turf is like pissing straight up in the air and getting furious that there's piss all over you. If you want to exercise your frustrations, go after the fuckers who are really causing your suffering - here's a hint, it's not the Hindi clerk following you around the liquor store, or the thug across the way that keeps mean muggin' you. Yes, violence sucks, but misplaced violence is - well - stupid and monumentally counterproductive. There's a reason the CIA flooded the inner city with crack during the 80's - it's the same reason they gave whiskey and diseased blankets to the Native Americans. Conspiracy nut? No, this is how the plutocracy historically operates.

Activism is better - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did it right and he did the best. Every time he went on a march that man believed he was going to be killed - you could see it in his face - that's fucking courage and that's why we still talk about him today. They murdered him, but he remains unassailable, uncorruptable, not because he died a martyr, but because his courage and righteousness is undeniable in the way he lived and in what he said and did, and what he did was more effective and more efficient than any war or police action ever undertaken by any organization, criminal or otherwise. Violence always begets more violence - but until we find another way, the human race will suffer, and the poor and disenfranchised will suffer the most, generation after generation, until the cycle is broken, or until we cause our own extinction. It boils down to embracing life, or embracing death.

 

I judge everyone on first appearances :\ Can't help it. It doesn't matter what color you are or species...i even judge dogs that are not on leashes on

 

Honestly, I almost never see black people as the population here is almost 100% white. When I go other places though I don't know that I really think anything about a black person when I see them as opposed to a white person.

I will say, that if I am alone and I see a man (of any color) walking towards me my first thought is to figure out if I could get away from him or call for help if he decided to attack me.

 

I'm with tuesdaystar, I try to read their eye regardless of who it is. When I see a Black or Latino person of course I recognize their color. I know their life experience is different than mine. What I don't know is how the person feels toward other people so the eyes are often a good guide. If I sense someone who is open I like to engage them at some level even if its just a nod of the head. I like talking to people whose life experience is different than mine. Its a chance to learn, to pick up information. I don't pursue conversation just on the basis of looking for difference but I apprerciate it if it's there.

As someone else said, the thug, skinhead or any other extreme look is a signal to be cautious. In our therapy groups we sometimes set limits on dress to shut down wannabe idiots who feel a need to advertise their particular brand of badass. I've found that the truely dangerous individual usually makes an effort to blend in. Those are the ones to really be alert for.

 

I wonder where my friend Vanessa is and wonder how her life has been

she is black...she was my first real crush when i was a kid..we talked for hours and hours about nothing all the time on the phone

I think we even kissed but its been so long since grade 5 i dont even remember most of it

 

I always think the darker the person the more genuine they are.
It's usually the halvsies that don't fit in anywhere that I look at with no respect because in my experience they're usually the worst human beings out there.
I'll stick my nose up at anyone though >.>

 

It varies, but it's never "There's a black person". Racism just doesn't fit the wrinkles in my brain and I didn't grow up with it.

 

I'm not trying to be PC at all but I still have to call bullshit on this one. I've known some really ignorant white people in my life. How is the white woman in front of you at the grocery store screaming at her 14 kids and strung out on meth somehow less ignorant than the black woman in the other line screaming at her 14 kids and strung out on crack?

yeah, I totally just stereotyped the drugs that white and black people use.

I don't really know what I think when I see a black guy. I don't think I think anything. I live in an area thats basically 50% white 50% black. It would be retarded to make snap judgements about black people because I would be judging half the population.

I also think the whole thug culture is just a big act. The same guys you see rolling through the neighborhod bumping a shitty sound system in an ugly ass jacked up cadillac on Saturday, you see on Sunday taking their granny to church.

 

woah. pause.

 

I Like This Reply....



Cheers Glen.

 

My real concern is short people...

 

Would You Care To Enlighten Us, As To What Your Cutoff Point For Short Is....



Cheers Glen.

 

Orange people are generally assholes:redface:

 

Anyone under 5'4" got no reason to live!

 

5ft 8" 1/2 Here, I'm Safe...:2thumbsup:



Cheers Glen.

 

Pun duly noted.