Quote: (08-27-2016 11:28 AM)Excelsior Wrote:
The same Trump supporting white guys who say they don't see race will go on about "the consequences" of "coal-burning" and the price of being a "mudshark" the next week, right before they tell you about how much they love Ben Carson, aren't racist, and have black friends (and then plan their next sexcation to Southeast Asia). The same Hillary-loving educated white girls will tell you all about tolerance and open-mindedness ("love is love!") before they automatically eliminate every black face from their dating profile without even a glance, in part because they know full well how the (equally left-leaning) men in their life would respond if they tried to "burn the coal" and in part because they're fucking hypocrites.
None of this is exclusive to white and black American relations though, nor is it limited to modern times.
Men of all cultures during all time periods have shunned their women from dating outside of their tribe. Men in Asia will literally call the girl a slut while you're standing right there. It's part of human nature.
We even had an African poster on the forum recently who celebrated the Tutsi's practice of only dating other Tutsi to preserve their bloodline. But I didn't see anyone calling him racist.
I agree that coal burning is a term that shouldn't be used on the forum, and that many of the posters here are too reactionary and take "race realism" too far. Lord knows I've gone to bat countless times for non-whites on this forum.
But at the same time, damn if I'm not tired of being called a racist simply for having an identity or doing the same things every other race does.
I actually had one of my closest friends from growing up post a HuffPost article on FB recently that basically said all whites are inherently racist and we need to learn to treat blacks better.
That legitimately hurt me, though my personality isn't usually one to admit that.
This is someone that used to be at my house everyday as kids, and that my parents not only treated with the utmost respect but as part of the family.
But according to one of Huffington Post's thousands of freelance bloggers, I'm a racist now. And he's someone who's well-educated and came from a decent background. Both he and his sister's have PhDs.
Their views are nothing compared to what many lower class blacks in America currently express about whites on a daily basis.
And don't even get me started on how many people consider me a racist just because of the candidate I support for president, someone who has been an icon in the hip hop community for years and yet is suddenly "literally Hitler" and apparently tarnishes everyone that associates with him.
Meanwhile people like Herschel Walker or Mike Tyson -- who talk about how generous and supportive Trump was towards them throughout difficult times in their life -- are greeted with an endless stream of "coon", "Uncle Tom", "house negro", etc. and have their character attacks and livelihood threatened ad infinitum.
Black people are harassed at work, shot in bar, etc. all for having an opinion. Yet it's Trump supporters who are supposedly the real racists.
On the other hand, notice how most of the Trump supporters on this forum support nationalism for Japan, nationalism for the Philippines, nationalism for Russia.
Yet god forbid we don't let millions of people illegally flood into the US. We all "owe" non-whites a "debt" for "slavery" and "colonialism" that we'll never be able to repay, regardless of the fact that this is all completely ahistorical when put into the proper perspective and relies on the retarded American version of race where the entire world is split up into white, black, Asian, Arab, and Latino, which completely falls apart under even the smallest of scrutiny.
I've lived in all-black hoods, white suburbs, and the third-world, smoked weed with Jamaican dope boys and talked politics with upper class Filipinos. I've seen firsthand who is living how and who is doing what. The okey-doke doesn't work on me.
If I can't even have an identity or express any concern for my own interests or the issues that affect me, you're right, we're not brothers. I respect you a lot as a poster, but if that's how you feel, that's how you feel.
Of course, all of the blacks and non-whites in this community and in general who don't want to hold me to an unequal standard because of something neither me nor my direct ancestors had anything to do with, or have me prostrate myself before them because of some esoteric "privilege" that I have no control of (nevermind that even blacks on welfare have a standard of living far surpassing the majority of human beings on Earth, regardless of color) -- we're good. I have nothing but love for those brothers who want to show me the same respect that I show them.