Esmoke wrote:I’m getting to the point where I don’t really believe in racial harmony anymore, it’s certainly not the intention of the lame stream media in my opinion they discovered just how much of a big hot button issue it is in certain areas and is just exploiting that in any way they can. Keeps them relevant because let’s face it with social media, internet search engines even YouTube you can find the answers to anything and everything we really don’t even need the press and they know that so they are stoking the racial Injustice flames as much as they can.
I have been with black women and took their kids out to get ice cream or whatever and I will say the $#%^ you hear from random white people is an eye opener I can only imagine if I were black how that would effect me so I do get it, I think there is genetic Component to this, I think it was humans survival instincts that it’s best to destroy the other tribe and take all their land and food before they can do it to you, a different culture one that is strange to people. I think it’s against our basic instinct to accept everyone. To use a well worn term I think most people wear a mask they pretend to be accepting and tolerant but it’s a facade. Even today’s modern lefties they are accepting of everyone who votes the way they do everyone else is a piece of scumbag. It’s a joke and nobody can see their own hypocrisy. I don’t listen to very many people about anything anymore
Instinctively, we fear what is different to us. Add to that: black people are, on average, more physically capable than white, so that adds to the fear. It's not racist; it's just a fact.
If you're intelligent enough to rise above your instinctive nature, which we all do to prevent us from masturbating in public like monkeys do, then you can negate the racist behaviour but it's hard to eradicate the instinctive mistrust, based on the above.
Recognising someone is black (or any shade of brown, as we all are) is not racist, treating someone differently is but, to an extent, beyond our control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM
However, when I see people openly hate people who are different, I don't see hate; I see fear and ignorance. I was at a resort some time ago with a friend, who is very black. Not a single problem until one small group in amongst the thousands we'd seen that day started to make monkey noises.
He just tried to brush it off, as did his white wife; they were both used to it. I wasn't and went to sort it out and they all just ran.
It's just bullying based on difference; it's no different to picking on someone for being fat or autistic or Jewish or whatever. The only real difference is the Dutch didn't round up all the autistic people and ship them off to the USA to a life of slavery.
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Jonna wrote:Black and white thinkers are easy to manipulate ime because their point of view on so many issues is easy to predict....due to their over-simplification of the world into easy-to-navigate dichotomies.
Yeah, I tend to do the same thing for my own amusement; let people talk themselves into a corner by asking questions.
That said, I tend to be quite black and white in my thinking from time to time, which I find very frustrating.