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Quote: from Aimforthehead at 3:19 pm on June 30, 2009

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So, we have a black president, black CEO's, black managers, black doctors, blacks talk show hosts, I think our next major step to erasing racism, would be getting to the point where we say, "So what?"
 

 how about getting to the point where whites aren't attacked for being in 'black' areas?



Of course, that too. As well as blacks being in white areas.

Umm, that is already widely condemned and those who do that are punished for 'hate crimes'.

Whites entering 'counter spaces' and being attacked on the other hand is not.

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Quote: from whoisabs at 4:47 pm on June 30, 2009

Quote: from Aimforthehead at 3:19 pm on June 30, 2009

Quote: from whoisabs at 11:10 am on June 30, 2009

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So, we have a black president, black CEO's, black managers, black doctors, blacks talk show hosts, I think our next major step to erasing racism, would be getting to the point where we say, "So what?"

  how about getting to the point where whites aren't attacked for being in 'black' areas?


 
 Of course, that too. As well as blacks being in white areas.

Umm, that is already widely condemned and those who do that are punished for 'hate crimes'.

Whites entering 'counter spaces' and being attacked on the other hand is not.



Punishment is a terrible cure for a sickness. You don't end racism by threat.

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Quote: from whoisabs at 2:10 pm on June 30, 2009

Quote: from Aimforthehead at 10:27 am on June 30, 2009

So, we have a black president, black CEO's, black managers, black doctors, blacks talk show hosts, I think our next major step to erasing racism, would be getting to the point where we say, "So what?"

how about getting to the point where whites aren't attacked for being in 'black' areas?


I lived in a not only predominately but solely black area for a year and didn't have a single issue at all, so from personal experience alone I'm more with Aimforthehead on this.

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Quote: from whoisabs at 4:47 pm on June 30, 2009

Umm, that is already widely condemned and those who do that are punished for 'hate crimes'.
Since more blacks are condemned for hate crimes then seems that whites are not even as punished as blacks in that area.


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Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 9:41 pm on June 30, 2009

I lived in a not only predominately but solely black area for a year and didn't have a single issue at all, so from personal experience alone I'm more with Aimforthehead on this.
Maybe because you're "whiter" than abs?

Post edited at 10:14 pm on June 30, 2009 by jakelong

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Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 9:41 pm on June 30, 2009

I lived in a not only predominately but solely black area for a year and didn't have a single issue at all, so from personal experience alone I'm more with Aimforthehead on this.
Maybe because you're "whiter" than abs?  

I am pretty excessively white.

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Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 12:41 am on July 1, 2009

I lived in a not only predominately but solely black area for a year and didn't have a single issue at all, so from personal experience alone I'm more with Aimforthehead on this.
This is where your problem is.
Racial tension does not come about when you're the sole or one of the very few people of a different race.
That's of course a given.

But when a minority group starts to gain in numbers, such happens.
They begin to have an effect on the community.

Apparently, you're the White kid.

They have no problems with Whites because you're the only one.

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Quote: from kidd rune at 11:28 pm on June 30, 2009

But when a minority group starts to gain in numbers, such happens.
They begin to have an effect on the community.

And they CAN'T have a POSITIVE effect of course?


Apparently, you're the White kid.
So abs problem was that he was NOT the only white kid and there was too many white kids in the black area?

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Quote: from kidd rune at 11:28 pm on June 30, 2009

Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 12:41 am on July 1, 2009

I lived in a not only predominately but solely black area for a year and didn't have a single issue at all, so from personal experience alone I'm more with Aimforthehead on this.
This is where your problem is.
Racial tension does not come about when you're the sole or one of the very few people of a different race.
That's of course a given.

But when a minority group starts to gain in numbers, such happens.
They begin to have an effect on the community.

Apparently, you're the White kid.

They have no problems with Whites because you're the only one.


That's funny. There's lots of white kids around here as well as blacks and Hispanics. I wonder why we don't get any of what you're saying at my school.

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And they CAN'T have a POSITIVE effect of course?
You could look at anything and call it positive.
You could also call it negative.
That's an opinion.


So abs problem was that he was NOT the only white kid and there was too many white kids in the black area?  
No, the Negroes themselves have experienced Whites and figured out they are two, separate, indistinguishable groups.

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That's funny. There's lots of white kids around here as well as blacks and Hispanics. I wonder why we don't get any of what you're saying at my school.
Lots?
What are the stats?

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Quote: from kidd rune at 11:38 pm on June 30, 2009

You could look at anything and call it positive.  
You could also call it negative.  
That's an opinion.

But you're saying that a minority growing in numbers among a majority CANNOT have a positive effect since to you it can only result in problems.  


No, the Negroes themselves have experienced Whites and figured out they are two, separate, indistinguishable groups.
So? Why is it that it was a problem for abs and NOT for TOH (or many other whites living as a minority among nonwhites for that matter?)

Post edited at 11:44 pm on June 30, 2009 by jakelong

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Quote: from kidd rune at 11:38 pm on June 30, 2009


That's funny. There's lots of white kids around here as well as blacks and Hispanics. I wonder why we don't get any of what you're saying at my school.
Lots?
What are the stats?

What do you mean stats? I don't have a statistics chart  

But I do see more than enough white people with all my years being here. I see more white people than I do black people. But it depends on what area you're in really.

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But you're saying that a minority growing in numbers among a majority CANNOT have a positive effect since to you it can only result in problems.
I didn't say that, and a positive/negative effect is an opinion.


So? Why is it that it was a problem for abs and NOT for TOH (or many other whites living as a minority among nonwhites for that matter?)
Because there weren't enough Whites among TOH's Negroes for them to say "Hey, we're Black. They're not. We're quite different."

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Quote: from Moonscar at 2:44 am on July 1, 2009

Quote: from kidd rune at 11:38 pm on June 30, 2009


That's funny. There's lots of white kids around here as well as blacks and Hispanics. I wonder why we don't get any of what you're saying at my school.
Lots?  
 What are the stats?

What do you mean stats? I don't have a statistics chart  

But I do see more than enough white people with all my years being here. I see more white people than I do black people. But it depends on what area you're in really.


Do you not know the racial demographics of your area?

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