one of the nice things about this board is you can go so much further with racism than i can up north. i can be almost KKK harsh with my comments and really not get alot of trouble from it. you call out some blacks here, and nolimit is piling on their terrible leaders, cparso has your back and is calling em out as well. many of my fancy-education real world friends have spent too much time in northeastern academia and like to play the righteous indignation card on me sometimes. they so quickly forget where they came from. both the north and the south are racist, and to some extent racism is a normal human nature thing, just like religion and all the other reasons people group together.and of course sometimes racism is justifoed, as some races can never seem to get their **** together. the difference between the north and the south is that the north lies about their racism and plays as if they are so beyond it and better than the south. they might be slightly less racist, in the sense that they live in more mixed cultures and just naturally learn to get along, but at the same time there is the same undercurrent of distrust as there is down south.
northeastern academia Isn't that an all white cookie with white nuts on it? the difference between the north and the south is that the north lies about their racism and plays as if they are so beyond it and better than the south. they might be slightly less racist, in the sense that they live in more mixed cultures and just naturally learn to get along, but at the same time there is the same undercurrent of distrust as there is down south.[/QUOTE] True. When asked to a party in Brooklyn once, I asked on the way there (in my most polite southern drawl) if there would be any "blacks" there. I didn't care if there were, just wanted to know. Guys from Ms are not always welcomed either. :hihi: Anyways, I was quickly told "do you mean N---? Hell no." Thought it strange that they seemed more racist than me. See what you get for moving up north? You lost your religion and now the right to act racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:lol:
Guess this answers our question if you can be arrested for hanging a noose in Louisiana. It was hung from a truck, not a tree. He was charged with inciting a riot, along with drunk driving.
well, to be fair, i lost religion at around age 11, when i reached the age of reason, like everyone should. but that is a topic for another thead.
I was in Minneapolis about 2 months ago for a conference and I was asking for a particular person. The people at my table pointed in a direction & I was told that she was the woman wearing the white dress. I looked, and said, "The black lady?" They all gave me this horrible look, like I had said something terrible about her... I'm pretty sure they all noticed she was black, they just wanted to pretend like they couldn't tell I suppose. At that same conference, all the yankees were asking me about Louisiana. There was another guy there who was from Florida & had been to New Orleans several times. Well, at one point the yankees were asking me about food and said, "Don't ya'll eat chitlins down there?" I said, "I've never had a chitlin. I think that's something black people eat." Everyone at the table immediately stopped what they were doing & went silent. The black guy just looked up and said, "Chitlins? I love chitlins! I was raised on those things." I hate that it has gone that far... It's only okay to generalize when you do it in a positive light. If you say the black woman is a pillar of strength, I would be applauded & loved. If I added, "but she has to be because of black father absenteism" then suddenly generalizing about a group of people is wrong. And I'm going to rant a little more... I do not consider African American a race. It is a country of origin. What race are black people that live in Europe? African Europeans? What about black people from the islands?
i love this anecdote. it shows how horrible white people want to make a show of their piety, but the black guy is better than them because he is sincere. it makes me want to read huck finn yet again. i consider myself a "northern-english american" . i am still kinda mad at red and his people for the viking era, when the norsemen came and messed with my people. one day i will go home to scarborough, north yorkshire and see my brothers. anyways, i think to be honest about race, to really accept reality about the world, is to have opinions you dare not say out loud, and that is unfortunate.
This is a pet peeve of mine, too. I only use the term African-American to describe someone or something with truly African and American elements. Like gumbo, it's an African-American dish with elements of both African and American cooking. Barrack Obama is an African-American with an African father and an American mother. Jazz can be considered to be an African-American art form with African rhythms combined with American instruments and folk tunes. An immigrant from Nigeria is truly an African-American. Many black Americans can be proud of an African-American heritage. What I object to is using the term African American to describe someone's race. To me it seems inappropriate and inaccurate. For instance, at LSU president Jenkins was born in South Africa and is a naturalised American citizen and so is Ivor van Heerden of Hurricane Katrina fame. These men are truly African-Americans but are as white as me. This was brought home to me on a TV piece where I saw a 14-year-old black girl ask Kofi Annan what he tought about an issue as an African-American. He had to point out to her that he was an African, not an African-American. What she meant was what did he think as a black person. When we are referring to a person's race, black and white seem like obvious, honest, and appropriate terms. When I was growing up in the 60's "negroes" were starting to believe that they were "black and proud." This made good sense to me. We were white, why couldn't they be black instead of "colored" or "negro". I fail to understand why it bothers some of them today. This all started with Jesse Jackson, you know. He coined the term and advocated its use instead of "black." You know, I have a proud former heritage, too, but I don't call myself a Confederate American. At least not when referring to my race.
The Danelaw! By Odin, you have mostly Norse blood in you. I knew there was something about you that I liked.
when the vikings came, my family had no part of their pillaging. savages. we dont mix with them. my last name, and my mother's maiden name are both places in england. one of my grandfathers was irish, but that is a shameful family secret. obviously i am not serious. i couldnt care in the slightest about my heritage. as i have said before, i am not a caveman, i do not identify with my tribe. only causes problems.
