Originally posted by midnight Target
How many white men on this board would rather be black? Be honest now.
MTV sure makes it appealing these days doesn't it?
Personally I think that too much is made about African-American everything.
I find it repulsive that any race would shout "We deserve to be considered equal as others but we need Affirmative Action and other special considerations." Seems to whisper double standard to me.
I'm also amazed that someone Black can call someone else Black a n*gger [edit: I see this word is verboten] and yet if anyone else says it then it's considered racists. Seems to say double standard to me.
As Martlet said...how about White History Month, White Miss American, hell White anything...it's then considered racists. Seems to scream double standard to me.
Yet it is insisted that everyone is equal.
I applaud Blacks for taking responsibility for their destiny while culturally it's not encouraged. It's an easy excuse to hold that mantra "The White man is holding me down" close to heart and say that they
deserve this and that while not working for it or sacrificing for it. The same could be said for a lot of people (of all races) but Blacks have consistently waved the race card far too often. I think Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton are the men who cried wolf once too often.
Do I think that certain people are out and out racists and take every oppurtunity to hurt other people of other races...yes I do, but there are these people from
ALL races. I also feel that someone who would do that is morally bankrupt and probably deserves to be shot, but I also feel that Jackson and Sharpton should also be considered villians toward Blacks.
It seems that they trivialize every occasion something happens to a Black person and desensitize us to the very real occurances of racism. The heirs to Martin Luther King they are not.
Black men and women are nothing more than men and women. I personally do not feel that they deserve as much consideration as they have been. It is politically correct to feel sympathetic to Blacks like it's a black eye (no pun intended) on our history so we act all nice-nice to make up for it.
I am not politically correct. I simply
WILL NOT kowtow to a condescending, political policy to anyone of any race. "...that all men are created equal..." seems to be a particularly poignant quote right now. Why should we show favoritism to
any race that claims all they want is equality.
In closing, I want to ask a question...How can someone be considered equal while so many concensions are made toward them?
