What does a White person say and/or do to counter White Supremacy(Racism)?

I don't even think about racism, or white spremacy. I think it's stupid. I grew up in a city in Texas where I was a minority. The Hispanic population was greater. I was discriminated against. It sucked. But it's not my problem. It's the other persons problem.

I worked at a coffee shop. This girl came in, she was black, and began ordering whatever it was that she ordered that day. We may have been goofing around as laborors do, or taking our time, whatever. Well, she interprets our actions of bad customer service, taking our time, to be racially motivated.

She remarked to my manager that such and such was happening because she was black. The truth is that I hate blacks and whites all the same, and vise versa.

It's happened before. This black woman came in with a chip on her shoulder. She bitched me out for whatever stupid reason she could think of.

When I'm faced with the problem of a minority race, black in this case, I simply ignore the notion all together. Even if I'm accused of being racist to my face, I simply look the other way because there is nothing I can do to change that persons mind.

I mean, come on, enough with the excuses already

hey Ambient, I clicked on your link (Do Not Click This Hyperlink), and the page took like forever to load. What's up with that?

the best way to counter racism is not to give other races any reason to look down on you or your race. You can only go so far with educating people against racism. If anti-racism education comes in conflict with someone's personal observations that certain races are different from others, then what do you think is going to be more convincing, the education or the person's own experience and observations?

This is really a non-issue for me. Yes, I see differences between races; however, I also realize that those racial differences do not necessarily generalize to all individuals within a race, and so I give anyone of any race the benefit of the doubt.

with the extensive mixing of cultures and races, is there really such a thing as a pure "white person" anymore? If you make reference to the color of the skin, then would you regard an albino African American as a "white person" or not?

Are you a White Person?

besides, issues of race are always confounded with socio-economics.

Non-White Person, as I said, the issue of race is not an issue for me. The real civil rights issue that has now entered into the USA's arena is Homosexual Rights. If you want to fight for something that will make a difference in a distant retrospect on history, then campiegn for Homosexual mariages. They are the opressed.

Socio-economic distance between black and whites is large. But if you think about it, long before African Americans gained civil liberty in its present form, the industrial revolution catapolted immigrants, (white,) into large quantities of money that weren't even imagined before the 20th century. Even for me, a lower middle class white man, I find it difficult to exceed the econimic class that I was raised in. One out of four men will make more money than their fathers. Economic classes are distancing greatly as our economy grows larger. Blacks, and whites are on either side. I know a black accountant who is a genius. Interesting fellow, he's upper middle class. I know an Indian, (born in India,) who is in the top 10% of the income bracket, which is $500k+ a year. He worked his a*s off until he was about 28, going to school in Europe. His father was a doctor, grandfather a lawyer, all the men in his extended family are doctors, or lawyers. He's a wiz at technical science. DNA helps. Hard work helps. You're born into a family, you're born into an economic class. More people are falling into the middle class than ever before, and more people are falling into the poverty level than ever before. Opression of blacks through American history has been a factor of the population of blacks in poverty.

I think if someone wants to be racists they have the right to do so. We are free to run our own lives according to the Constitution. I think people as yourself are extremely valuable to civil liberties. Without MLK, who is one of the greatest speakers of our time, probably the most essential to our views of race, the USA would not have dealt with race as it did in the 60s.

I grew up hearing my grandma say the word nigger because she heard her parents say the word nigger. My cousin was seriously involved with a black guy. He was cool. We hung out. It still bothers her. That's her right. Most of my family accepted him. They are allowed to. As am I. I'm alowed to say, "F**K you, you dirty racist bastards who think of someone as lesser than you." We're all people. We've all got stuff.

Bikinis on beaches used to be a big issue, still is for some people. But not for me, I think that's find, whatever the ladies wanna do. If you say we can't be racist then by the same arguemnt I can say you can't be equal because of your skin pigment.

We're all just begining to learn how to get along.

MLK, btw, Letter from Birmingham Jail, is one of the most moving pieces of literature I've ever read. If you have heard of Fanny Lou Haimer, (not sure how to spell her name,) has an incredible story. Azhari has a monologue about this woman's plite for black civil rights in the south. It made me weap.

Non-White Person: nice name b*tch .....HAHAHHAA!

what a gay name

am i now a gay basher?

no.

I dont care
I DO care
I dont care


youre a non white person and so what? is that supposed to be cool now?

this is the internet dude, race/creed should be set aside, if not go on TV and tell everyone youre a non white person

cancel all this: I think youre just starting trouble.

youre a white person cuz a non white person wouldnt even be here.

lol.

im not a racist but if you call me one then i guess i am one, according to you. and its all about you baby, i mean, non white person baby.

youre the racist.

no, cancel that. I dont know whats going. leave me alone.

My friend, there are no answer. There is only a diologue in which we find a meeting place. Why do people hate on terms of race? I don't know. But I can tell you why I don't.

You start with a hypothosis. You define the question. You search. You get closer to something true.

If you're trying to prove what you already believe about racial issues, then I have no need to talk to you.

If you pose a question to me, and it in turn open my eyes to something, it is only polite to consider my answer.

Non-White Person, are you being effected by racism, directly or indirectly? Are you asking your question to gauge the public mind, to get embroiled in argumentation, or are you just curious to hear various answers to a question you're interested in?

Non-White Person = the brother from another planet?

Now, can't we all just get along? We all brothers here. I love you Non-White Person. I love you too Ambient. *smooches*

damn.

non white people suck

and whites
and spiks
and sand niggers
and mexi-please-wash


actually-

everyone sucks

but not me and AmbientSnw

you're mean anonymust. You hurt my feelings. :'(

Look, the world is the will to power, and if you let something like racism get in your way, then you have no-one to blame but yourself. There have been great non-white individuals throughout history who have risen above their particular circumstances and who have risen to greatness, not because racism and other negative forces did not exist, but in spite of them.

You should read a little Buddhism. Here's a little passage for your benefit, Non-White Person:

we ALL knew that!

I assume "Unknown" is my previous correspondent here. If your definition is that I must classify myself, then as a scientist, I must say I am a human being.

Kind regards, and good luck in your analysis and further study.

race is a non-issue. Should we start separate threads on tall people discrimating against short people, and all the injustice it entails? Or should we start a thread on the discrimination of blondes by brunettes? Or on the discrimination of fat people by thin people? There's so much injustice in the world! Oh woest me! Jeez, get over it already and admit that this is really about shifting responsibility from oneself onto some other group that we would like to believe is discrimating against us and oppressing us! And so, again, I would say "accept responsibility for yourself and stop trying to blame others for all the evils you see in the world".

Let's face it, most racists are at the lower end of their race, and so they seek to identify with their race, and to make race an important issue, in order to make themselves feel more important and more elevated. There are some exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, it seems that only losers are racists, and they turn into racists so that they can believe in the pleasant fiction that their race (and hence themselves) is superior, and by identification with their race, they come to believe that they are superior. But I hope everyone can see the faulty logic here. Superiority of a race does not imply superiority of an individual belonging to that race, though most racists (and in particular, those that we would identify personally as losers) would like you to believe otherwise. It is a warped logic, I'll grant you that, but what can you do about it except better educate people as to the root causes of racism.

Now, I said racists tend to be losers in life and hence try to feel important by identifying with a "superior" race, but there are exceptions; namely, there have been exceptional men throughout history who have harbored racist views, and this cannot be easily explained away psychologically as I attempted above. Rather, we must come to terms with the fact that even exceptional people can be racist, and we can attempt to understand why their reasons and logic for doing so. There is a logic there. Different races harbor relative differences in genes, and so the race issue boils down to the claim that one race's genetics is superior to anothers. But who sets the criteria for whose genetics are superior? Well, Mother Nature of course, and we're a part of it, which means that it is our natural right to do what we want, when we want, and to rest assured that Nature will take her course. So, in the end, we see that racism is a non-issue in the grander scheme of things. It is a pleasant fiction that some hold onto for various reasons, but it is a fiction nonetheless.