re: Standing on the soapbox - Racism and media coverage

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White
Asian
Hispanic
Black

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Im curious, where the heck did you get this list from? Sure Hispanic chicks might be crazier, but damn, that coupled with their natural curves/beauty clearly places them miles above flat Stanley Asians.

Since we are sharing stories, I have one to share.

My uncle, a black man, in the late 1980's met a white woman who was recently divorced with two very young white kids (girls).

They were eventually married, and even though they never had kids together, he raised those two little white girls into women, who now have families of their own (they are married to white men just in case anyone is curious).
They are still married to this day, and traveling the world and enjoying life.

I have a friend of mine who dated a white girl when we in high school all the way through. To be honest, from time to time some of the more ignorant trash black girls would harass her because they were jealous. His mom, would try to bring other black girls around to break them up, and her dad hated my friend.

Through it all they kept going, got married, and started a family. They are easily the most successful ones on either side of their families. Her father, wanting to be a part of his daughter's life and his grandchildren's life came around and opened his heart. He even calls my friend son now, and they go fishing and do a lot together. His mother is better, but still a bitch to the wife.

Just wanted to add some success stories, to all of the negative ones.

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It sounds like your "friends" were too insecure in the relationship to begin with.

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Possibly.

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Why would you they let the opinions of strangers, ignorant strangers at that, be a deterrent to them.

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Sometimes a relationship needs to just be easy. When you're walking down the street in GA and getting screamed at/followed or when you're at a party and other black men are getting up in your face there might be a time when you just say "this isn't worth dealing with for the rest of my life". It might be seen as immature but that was the decision they both made. This is why you tend to flock to people who are similar to you. It's easier and there are typically less issues.

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It is hard to support a list like this. A thing like attraction is so subjective.

Personally I would go:

Hispanic
Black
White
Asian

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Haha Thank you! No way Hispanics rank below Asians on the hot/beauty scale.

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can't speak for the issue as a whole, but for the couple in Berkeley, the black/white combination is probably the least socially acceptable of the interracial pairings, especially if it's a black man and a white woman.

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The AP disproves that point. it's kind of funny to see these old white men who look like retired Klansmen doting on their mocha grandbabies. It's actually refreshing and neat to see rather than funny.

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Black women were subjected to being raped by their slave masters, then had to be separated from their children, then watched their children be denied, all while taking care of the masters children. There has to be a lingering adversion there for black women.

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Every color has a history of being slaves. If you don't think white folks have a history of being in slavery then go read some history books. I work with older black guys at my main job and have a few older black men and women that are repeat customers of mine for my side job, one I used to drink coffee with in the mornings. Most all of them can't stand seeing all the racist talk on the media and hate all these younger blacks that holler racism on everything.

I'm only pointing out to you that blacks are not the only race that has been in slavery. I'm also pointing out to everyone else that the many, many blacks are tired of all the racism talk just like we are. One of my coworkers last football season, who is black and we were watching news and he compared it to Katrina talk with the Saints. He said he understood all the media coverage at first and just like Katrina coverage being associated with the Saints, but damn, overtime it gets shoved in your face and blown out of proportion, over dramatized and he was sick of it like everyone else.

I'll be honest and say I wasn't always a fan of interracial relationships.

I went to public school and attended an HBCU for college. There weren't many white girls to be attracted to, in addition to that I had several different types of black women to select from while in college.

On the other hand my little brothers went to Catholic schools and majority white colleges. They've dated white, black, Asian, and Hispanic girls, and don't really choose the women they date based on skin color.

Different exposure results in different preference in all things, dating not excluded.

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Racism and media coverage

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I was born native American Indian but I feel a persecuted black man inside. Shouldn't the media cover me?

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Every color has a history of being slaves. If you don't think white folks have a history of being in slavery then go read some history books. I work with older black guys at my main job and have a few older black men and women that are repeat customers of mine for my side job, one I used to drink coffee with in the mornings. Most all of them can't stand seeing all the racist talk on the media and hate all these younger blacks that holler racism on everything.

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I'm giving you a reason for the cause. That is all

I also know blacks aren't the only ones to have been slaves but we live in a relative world-- our concerns mostly don't travel past our neighborhoods, and their furthest extent is our nation's borders.