Comments on: “You black guys are racist!!”

By: The Facts

The Facts — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:13:31 +0000

Okay, what happened in 1492 that took away African American's power to define? Nothing.

Now, lets see, over a fifth of the lynchings that happened in the state of Virginia were white people getting lynched, so don't try and claim that you were the only ones who had that happen. Sold blacks? Yes, white people did that, but who sold them to the white people in the first place? Other black people. White people didn't go raiding black villages, black tribes fought and captured slaves, then sold those slaves to white traders. Raped blacks? Yes…But black people commit over 50% of the rape crimes, and make up only 13% of the population.

By: $natch

$natch — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:40:00 +0000

im a white male, but i do live with a black man. he is almost my brother. but people think im racist cuz i have yelld at many black men. but i have only yelld at them because thay thought they were better than every one else, also for yelly at my bro. for hanging out with little O' me. Cuz im white? why would they do that?

By: meeting rooms

meeting rooms — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:29:48 +0000

I think oppressed people can always oppress others in the same or a lower position, so I do believe black people can be racist.

By: office space

office space — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:29:12 +0000

Kinda agree with most comments.I think oppressed people can always oppress others in the same or a lower position, so I do believe black people can be racist. But what I believe is that black or white,irrespective of race, anyone can be racist to others and to their own race too.

By: blackjack tournaments

blackjack tournaments — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:39:56 +0000

I think that the black people can' be racist, one of the reason is that even in today's society there are numerous black people who are being targetted and exploited on account of racism. Due to their color.
Still if there are such incidents taking place where white people are critisized by the black ones, it can be taken as an exception.

By: joyjoyfuljoyous

joyjoyfuljoyous — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:42:55 +0000

Well, I think you are just complaining about isolated incidents or discomfort that threatened your privilege. And, by the way, it's happened to me too. Racisim and classism are forms of prejudice that require power. Heavens yes, poor people, African Americans, and everybody can be prejudiced and have their prejudices. However, your complaint is not too different than the cries of reverse discrimination. Leaving alone that you can't discriminate backwards, the implied comment of both complaints is a right to or an implied deserving of the position. That is why I say that you are complaining based on perceived and perhaps actual threats to your privilege – in your case the privilege being education. I'm not saying that as a judgement – more so a call for how we as YBP sometimes look at other Blacks (or anyone for that matter) who are not professionals, didn't attend college, and etc. Taking this approach requires us to look at our motives, attitudes, and for those on a faith walk – our integrity in that area as well. Very brave of you to look at this and ask these quesitons.

By: The Blackguy Executive

The Blackguy Executive — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:31:52 +0000

I do think that the Black community, especially those with collegiate and above pedigree can be classist and even racist. I am an a graduate from a small private liberal arts college that hold a higher status in the collegiate community and have felt this class divide. I have been called “bougie” and some of my mentors have called me a member of the “Black Elite. W.E.B. Du Bois said in his talented tenth arguement that, “the Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.” This point of view clearly depicts a classist divide. Many of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities are creating a classist ideology for many of it graduates.

By: axelotl

axelotl — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:29:07 +0000

You need to learn why your own mind thinks in this way about racism – the answer lies in the fact that you, as so many others worldwide, have been conditioned by 'Frankfurt School' politically-correct thinking dogma which was introduced early in the 20th century to Europe and after WW2 to the USA.

You have uncritically and probably unwittingly adopted such a way of thinking, and are clearly beginning to realise that, whilst racism exists of course, it is in fact practiced by both black and white and that not every incident of what appears to you as a black person as racism, is in fact as a result of your skin colour.

See this documentray video on ythe Origin of Political Correctness:

http://swindonnationalists.blogspot.com/2008/02...

By: diana

diana — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:51:55 +0000

EVERYONE CAN BE PREJUDICE, BUT THE RACIST ARE THE ONES WITH THE POWER TO EFFECT NEGATIVE CHANGE AGAINST ANOTHER RACE. The European race is the ultimate racist. They conquer all that they befriend. The native Americans are extinct due to the white man,The buffalo are almost non-existent due to the white man’s greed, The African American’s true identities were snatched from them by the white man, If they research the family tree it leads to a plantation…to white names, The Continent of Europe did not exist until the white man conquered that part of Asia and called it home, Africa use to be named Ethiopia until a white man named it after himself(Africa),South Africa’s good land was stolen and the natives were lead to the swamps by the white man during Apartheid. Now Oprah opens a school for poor blacks, because the good white schools in Africa are Univiting to the darker complexed, and the white man complain about why his white child can’t get in Oprah’s school. The Gold and diamond minds were taken by the white man after they tricked the native American Indians into revealing where they got gold from(referring to the gold that was brought to America by the Ethiopians for trade with the Indians long before Christopher(lying) Columbus so called discovered America. The Haitians can’t even enter America because they did not allow the white man to conquer their land as they had every country they visited, and the Haitians are being punished to this very day. America is terrified of the pure mind set of the Haitians because That was one culture they did not have a chance to create an inferiority complex in as they have every other place they have visited. People ask what make other races so different because they fight amongst themselves and cause the same devastation. That’s just it, They FIGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES and don’t pan out to conquer other races, but the white man goes outside himself to conquer and still.Today Bush continued the trail of his ancestors, and conquered for greed of oil, and he used the people of his country to do his dirty deeds. He went against all safe guards set up to prevent dictatorship (The UNITED NATION, CONGRESS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE CIA, ETC) and became that in which he claimed to want to destroy (A DICTATOR) He destroyed a country on the tail of a lie, but he accomplished his goal,and got the oil. He made his ancestors proud “That’s right Bushy boy, if they don’t hand it over go and take it by all means necessary”. If your read the bible God talks about Satan’s children will rule the world for 6.000 years and at the end of that time he shall allow the meek to inherit the earth once again…I wonder who he was referring to, you do the math.

By: K.Nicole

K.Nicole — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:21:51 +0000

In my own opinion African Americans cannot be racist. I am a young African American college woman (real HU, Howard) who has seen white racism and felt it. As I see it and many scholars I learn from racism correlates with power. Any body can be prejudice but those who hold power can be racist. Since, whites have taken African Americans power to define back in 1492 we cannot be racist. Personally speaking everybody is prejudice. Even within myself i find myself being prejudice. Whites lynched us, refused us service, sold us, raped us, made us inferior, and brought on many pschological problems that still exist. So I could go on for days but yeah blacks cannot be racist.