rfvrfv wrote:
16x wrote:absolutely, your one incident of "white boy" does not qualify you to understand centuries of racism and insults made to a group of people - so no, it has never kept you from a job, or getting an apartment or a credit card. Cry all you want - your story isn't that sad.
16x, this is such a tired excuse.
As a white man I am not going around and crying about how my grandparents - that's right my GRANDPARENTS - were slaves 60 years ago in Russia after WWII. And none of my relatives complained even though my great-grandparents starved to death because of persecution in their home country. And at that time they were lucky not to be Jewish because we know what happened to that race.
Pain, suffering, racism, ugly words, etc are not limited to black people. Every single day I read an anti-semetic comment in the news and not a word is said about any of this ugliness. Quietly forgotten is the fact that 99% of people came to America because they were running away from horrific persecution somewhere else. We're supposed to feel bad for the blacks because they were slaves 150 years ago? Among people who emigrated to America, how many were NOT slaves 150 years ago?
I'm not arguing that it is cool to call hard working young ladies "nappy headed ho's". But if we're going to make a big deal about this people should start apologizing to the jews every time they're referred to as "greedy bankers" or "a cult of world domination" or anything else like that.
And my own heritage is German although my relatives were from Yugoslavia and they had nothing to do with WWII and wanted nothing to do with WWII. When the war was over and reparations had to be paid, guess who was sent to Russia to work off the war debt?
Do you think it is not offensive to me every time someone refers to a German as a Nazi? Thanks to the Nazis my great grandparents were killed, my grandparents were slaves, and my family lost everything they had. 60 years ago...
Oh my god, cry me a river. My great grandparents fled to the U.S. during WWII from POLAND, under the same circumstances. My grandparents lived in the Polish districts of Ohio and worked in factories, and were ridiculed most of their lives.
They also impressed upon me to stand up for injustice.
I really don't know where you are going with your story other than you ought to be standing up for injustice.
I absolutely agree that Nazi is deragatory and I would feel the same if Imess called a group of basketball players nazi ho's or just nazi's. what is your point? I would feel the same if he called the pollocks or towel heads or spicks or bitches or white trash, crackers, whatever. did I say otherwise?