Racism still exists

One step forward two steps back. Black ghettos have gotten worse not better and same with police brutality in these ghettos. Now 9/11 has made muslims the target of goverment racism and a bit off topic but the oppression of the poor has also gotten worse.

So some teacher is a bigot how about Benton Harbor that could be any black ghetto USA with police oppression and large black unemployment. Who cares what some bitch teacher thinks of blacks when you have huge inequality going on.

 

Racism is still as hot as it was 500 years ago...

I was building prime cedar fences for two adjacent houses in Vancouver...
A Dark skinned UBC prof approached me to build his new home in Ghana...
so I did a little research on Ghana... Ends up that's where most of America's dark skinned slaves were kidnapped from...
A little more research told me that a Ghana citizen is considered to be a national hero should he publically murder a Whiteman in Ghana...

I approached the prof fellow who had asked me about building his house, stating that it is the thing in Ghana to kill a whiteman in his homeland...
His response was, "Well look what the Whiteman did to our People!"

My response was, "Build your own house!"

 

racism will always exsist. just like how there will never have peace. I know the most racist people, but I don't really even care. You get used to it after a while. I dont agree with it, but i just ignore it. It can be funny when I hear someone singing The white Man Marches on from american History X.

 

What progress? Desegregated schools, stores, restaurants, parks, beaches, drinking fountains and bathrooms. Black politicians, lawyers, doctors and business executives. The Ku Klux Klan was once all-powerful, now it's a joke. When was the last time you heard of a lynching?

So your point is that we still have a long way to go. What a coincidence, that's the same point I'm trying to make. Changing discriminatory laws was an uphill battle in which many lives were lost, but it was a piece of cake compared with changing discriminatory attitudes (on both sides).

 

Ghettos aren't necessarily racism. Trailer parks are really the same thing as ghettos, except the white or (in my area) Hispanic versions of them.

I tend to agree with Bill Cosby that education is key for blacks and really everyone. People in the ghettos just have a harder hill to climb due to peer pressure to not try, but it's not impossible.

 

The ghetto police don't care if your educated or not, they will arrest you for the crime of being black and poor, planting drugs or a weapon on you so they have something to charge you with. The ghetto courts will send you to jail on the flimsiest of evidence because your black & poor. Lets not forget police getting off with a slap on the wrist for killing blacks in ghettos, in LA recently the police got off scot free for murding a 13 year old black kid.

Education in it self is not the key, it would only lead to educated oppressed blacks that while nice won't really address the issue. Revolution is key, we can stop the bulk of racism in matter of months if the people are willing to take to the streets and smash the system that is causing this inequality and replace it with a more humane one.

But changing disciminatory additudes is not the primiary issue, the issue is the system, if you get rid of poverty and oppression from society then you will get rid of black poverty and oppression thus the path to end racism is revolution.

 

holy shit, guess im gonna cross 1 place off my list of places to visit

 

I bet you live in the North. There has been no progress south of D.C.

 

Quote:
Its just cases like about those teachers that are really bewildering to hear about and make us think things will never get better. I know all too well what its like being around that kind of racism since I'm from lovely south cakalaki..


"So some teacher is a bigot how about Benton Harbor that could be any black ghetto USA with police oppression and large black unemployment. Who cares what some bitch teacher thinks of blacks when you have huge inequality going on."

exactly what i was saying...
o and about the ghettos, i dont remember mentioning anything about them.
...somewhat irrelevant to my point, which was that the personal issues between whites and blacks has become less extreme now than from decades ago

 

I am white, and I have very good friends who are from Ghana. A village Chief from Ghana blessed me with gifts when we met, for no other reason than just to be giving.
I would go to Ghana without hesitation. It is probably more dangerous for a Ghanaian to go to certain neighborhoods in the west than for me to go to Ghana

 

well. ghana is one thing. but i guess i was just sheltered growing up. i thought that once that girl went to school in oxford mississippi, racism was over. i thought it was unique to my grandarents.

ignorance is bliss

 

Sure but is there solidarity? I mean real solidarity, such large turn outs aginst war,WTO,ect yet when blacks protest police oppression, white revolutionaries are mostly no where to be found except after the smoke clears to write up a article saying how much they support the fight aginst inequality.

Think the difference it would make if when blacks protests the police, they got the same numbers of white supporters in the protest as a WTO or anti-war protest.

 

im white and i was in an mlk day parade with a peace group. i felt kind of uncomfortable, but ithink it was the right thing, and our group, which is all races, was invited. but ithink most white people feel uncomfortable.

 

No progress? You mean there are still segregated schools, stores, restaurants, parks, beaches, drinking fountains and bathrooms? Signs everywhere that say White Only or White Entrance, Colored Entrance Out Back? The Ku Klux Klan still runs the local government? Freedom marchers are still attacked with clubs, dogs and fire hoses? Martin Luther King's efforts were all in vain? Read your history.

Yes racism exists and it always will. But if each successive generation becomes a little less hateful and a little more tolerant then that's progress. It's not good enough, and that's why we need to keep fighting the good fight.

 

We need more then tolerance we need people to stand up aginst their oppression. It is one thing to be tolerant of blacks it is another to try stop the police when you see them oppressing blacks. Blacks would see whites in a different light if they see whites throwing rocks and bottles at police alongside them.

The path to end racism is for everyone to get together to smash the system that oppresses us all.

“People in power have misused it, and now there has to be a change, and a better world has to be built, and the only way it’s going to be built is with extreme methods. I, for one, will join in with anyone--I don’t care what color you are--as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.” -Malcolm X 1964

 

Sounds like a good idea to me

 

Exactly Newo. I completely agree with everything you just said here. Of course there are still problems ALL OVER this country, and yes, there seem to be a lot more in the south...but to say there has been no progress there, or anywhere, is just ... dumb.

I'm from South Carlolina too. The Ku Klux Klan marched through the little town I went to highschool in when I was in 10th grade. I know some damned racist people. But no progress? Bullshit. Y'know how many people showed up to cheer on the KKK at that parade? none. But there were a lot of people ridiculing them. My mom was at the same highschool I went to when it was desegregated. There were no problems through it, and her best friend was a black boy. They hung out all the time...no one ever cared. I have great grandparents and grandparents who still occasionally use the N word. But they know those views are wrong, and they are the kind who never meet a stranger anyway. Does the color of someone's skin stop them from being friends with someone? Hell no, they don't care, they love all people except for assholes lol. They use those words occasionally because of how they were raised...but they try to get over it, and use them as little as possible...consciously they try to grow, and they pass it on. My parents only racism has to do with interracial relationships. Was I raised that way? No, because they knew they had to keep all racism out of my life, teach me that it's wrong, and teach me to love everyone. I do, because they consciously raised me against their own personal beliefs and prejudices because they knew they were old and wrong. That's what their parents did.

Racism is passed down, hate is passed down, love is passed down. The key is to raise kids better than how you were raised. Some people unfortunately don't get that. They don't think they're wrong. They are so quare and stuck in their ways, they just can't seem to throw out those prejudices so that they can raise their kids with love for everyone. But slowly and surely people are growing up away from that shit. Change is happening. But damn it takes time. This stuff was ingrained in all of our ancestors not all that long ago. No progress my ass.

And yeah, my husband is friends with a guy from a town in Alabama where the people, black and white, and other, segregate themselves on their own, and he's witnessed more lynchings in his life than he cares to count. But even he knows there's been progress there, as sad as that seems...heh, and he's not racist...but he sure as hell is homophobic...another prejudice that will probably take many years to get over.

 

A few days of revolutionary upheaval brings more change then decades of normal development. [size=-1][/size][size=-1] [/size]

 

there will always be racism. Theres a KKK member living in my town. My dad is the most racist person, but im not racist. It is impossible to stop racism and teach tolerance, cause people wont always listen, and will do whatever they want.

 

You mean like the Black Panthers or the Weathermen? Right, there's a couple of success stories. You see stuntdragon1's signature pic? Here in America the tank is the system and the little boy throwing stones is the resistance.

I'm sure you're tired of hearing this but you have to affect change by working within the system. The fact that it's flexible enough that it can be changed is what makes it too powerful to smash.