re: How deep can racism go in a person?

Was your last handle PelicanState

Choosing to avoid places where certain demographics don’t know how to properly behave isn’t racism, it’s awareness.

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I’m no lexicon extraordinaire.

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No shite.

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My limited lexicon says you are in the zone with this undertone of group preference.

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You mean your limited vocabulary , as lexicon cannot be limited nor is it a trait or skill that can be possessed by a person.

Vocabulary is the collection of words that an individual uses or understands. Lexicon is the complete set of words used in a language, including all root words and variations.

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lexicon cannot be limited

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Vocabulary is the collection of words that an individual uses or understands. Lexicon is the complete set

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Now do logic.

Nevermind.

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Everyday Is Saturday

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Better than a Monday…amirite???

Here’s my take. Everyone is racist. Everyone. Every white person you know. Every black person you know. Every Asian, every Hispanic. It’s human nature. We are all tribal to some degree and have been throughout human history and always will be.

Now does that mean all people are bad. Of course not. I’ll try to illustrate. I’m a 53 y/o white dude that grew up in the south. Grew up poor in a predominantly black neighborhood in Shreveport in the 80’s. Have I ever used the “N” word? Of course I have. Have I ever told a racist joke of course I have. Went to Woodlawn High School. Were there black guys I considered friends. Sure were. Played hoops every afternoon under the dome at Oak Terrace. These same black guys that I considered friends and were always cool to me, did they ever say shite about white folks. Heard it all the time. Cracker mother fricker this, hill billy that. Had some black dudes show up from another school and one of them thought I fouled him too hard and wanted to kick my arse. The black guys I played with on the reg stepped in and shut that shite down.

Best neighbor I ever had in the 5 houses I have owned was a black family. Christian family. He was a supervisor at cable company and she worked at GE. Has two kids same ages as mine. They played together all the time. Sometimes at my house sometimes at theirs. He taught me everything I know about keeping a pristine green lawn. I would have done anything in the world for them and they the same. Now, would I had let my son date his daughter. Not a chance in hell. If you asked him if he would let his daughter date my son, he would have answered hell no also. Does that make each of us, a white guy and a black guy racist? Maybe, heck probably. But we still would have been there for each other because we were both good people.

Good people don’t want to see other people suffer and will generally be helpful to other people to varying degrees. Bad people will treat other people like shite. But good or bad, we are all racist.

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Magilda when the hell did you turn into basically me

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I've always been the "contrarian" on the board. I didn't change, the board changed.

Everybody got too serious on the OT Lounge. Admittedly it has made it more fun to play devil's advocate and get people riled up.



If you pay attention you'll notice that I share both conservative and progressive views, depending on the issue.

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This is because, in my opinion, a great deal of what is perceived as racism is actually group preference.

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This kind of stuff and even every day interactions/disagreements are even more likely to be forced into racism claims in areas with close to equal numbers of populations of each where large amounts of blacks and whites across various economic classes have interactions all the time. Normal disagreements, frictions, and personality differences get turned into being about racism. Class, culture, and education differences in interactions get mixed into racism when blacks and whites are the ones interacting.

Many blacks, all leftists, or all white liberal females see a white person act impersonally to another white person, and they are likely to think he or she is a miserable arse or is having a bad day or is just not very personable. Those same people see that same white person act the same way to a black, and its because that person is racist with a complete inability to see things any other way.

Blow the horn at someone - usually being an arse but if it was a white person blowing horn at a black it is a racial incident. It doesn’t even matter if neither of them knew the other’s race as for many once told it’s racism.

Even if the black is reasonable and knows it was not racism that does not stop the other blacks, leftists, or white liberal women from telling others about the act of racism they saw.

All these are greatly increased when you live in a city like BR. People have impersonal, blunt, indifferent interactions and disagreements all the time, but when an area is 90% white these stay isolated to just being between those individuals, but when an area is 50/50 or close those same and equal types of interactions and disagreements get turned into being about the 2 groups of people.