I choose to make the assumption after i meet the person. Not make the assumption before i meet the person.
Ok... An assumption is the sort of thing you make when lacking enough evidence. It's like a guess. You might guess something about someone even after having met them, but in general you'd be guessing more before you met them, than after.
What assumption do you have about me being black?
I don't have any. Not about you specificaly. I do know that black people behave black, white white, etc. Are you going to deny that people of the world have cultures? Hello?? BET? Baguettes and croissant? Kisses on the cheeks in Paris as opposed to handshakes or those semi-bend-over hugs in the US? Are you denying that cultures are distinct?
Before i even said anything. All those generalizations that you brought up, that generally go with a certain culture. Do you think of them first before you would meet me or after you would?
I dunno, do you think that cultures never ever reflect on the constituants of said cultures?
Sure Hispanics drive lowriders, blacks do to. I've seen some suburban white teenage girls lowriding too. I don't think of all that before i meet Carlos though. I just say hey Carlos you drive a lowrider?.... cool. Carlos friend to me, might drive up in a pickup jacked up 8 feet off the ground, i don't know, and i leave it at that.
Strawman. You're saying that because some very vulgar stereotypes only happen in a small proportion of the population, that lesser degrees of those memes don't happen in the rest of the population. You're saying that if you took a black person in the US, and magicaly gave him or her a white person's body, that no one would notice.
If I do have an accusation, it's against people in the US, for having let the black/white divide and the growth of anti-black/white cultures on both sides. It's like watching a farm, it really is. The way blacks and whites treat each other is just eye popping.
As for Lazs, well, as bold and brash as he is, the points he makes are defendable. Two things: One, you should remember that you're in the US, where you're supposed to have exemplary appreciation for defending others' rights to differ with you. Two, it doesn't matter if he's being rude or if he tests your sensibilities, if he flaunts public conventions.. The point he makes is true.
I don't know about NEVER hiring blacks - please read the analogy I made above before
you "stuff words in my mouth", but I do know that the whole victimizing act is taken to unbelieveable extremes in the US, on both sides of the black/white divide. The way I've read Lazs up to today, is that he just does away with that overgrown superfluous bloated mannerism, and with good reason: it's absolutely useless.
The only way out of that entrenchment is to just MOVE ON. To just GIVE UP the freakin outdated racial theories and just take people for exactly what they are. If that means someone who's stuck on stupid, then that's what he should get called for. But saying that there's no such thing as a black person that's dimwitted.. Please... I grew up in France and it was almost the exact same thing. It was OK to call french people born in pure white bread families and upbringing as being (rednecks), but it was taboo to call people who were brought up on the African equivalent (well, we can't say any such word, and I don't even mean the N word)...