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MyTie
I don't think it was racist
Of course you don't. He is black. So, you think it is impossible for him to be racist.
Post by
Adamsm
And how many 'scary black man' jokes are there out there? To me, it sounds more like he was just making a piece of banter out of the fact that he ended up as a hero unexpectedly.
Post by
Gone
In case you didn't know, recently three ladies were rescued after having been missing for several year. And man named Charles Ramsey, a black man, is the one who broke them out of the house they were being held in. During an interview afterwards he had this to say:
I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway.
I have a couple questions about this. Is that statement, as he said it, racist? If a white person had said it, would that have been racist? With this story and quote circulating the news everywhere, is it helpful or harmful to people's perceptions of black people?
I don't think it was racist, I think it was a comment on racist society. We're taught to fear strangers (rightly so) but even more so to fear strangers that don't look/are like us. Him knowing that doesn't make him racist, or even make him think she's a racist or anything like that.
If he is the man I recall him being I would've been weary to run to him too if I wasn't in desperate need as he looked a little out of his mind, so.
I don't think it was necessarily racist either. Honestly I think he was just making a joke and trying to be clever. Let me ask though. If a white man said that exact same thing, would you consider it racist?
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Gone
I think a white person saying it would certainly be a fo paux, and socially inappropriate, but it isn't any more or less inherently racist than if a black man said it.
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240140
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MyTie
"white girls are taught to fear black men"
I wonder when this class is. I think people just fear what they don't know, or what they are unfamiliar with, or what isn't like themselves. Although, I do believe that racism is taught by a small, and unfortunate part of the population, I don't feel that that is such a part of the population to be an explaining factor to why there would be a problem at all.
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MyTie
This isn't a class in school were they go "now now kids, don't go close to no black people"
Just because racism isn't this overt in public schools, you feel they are free from needing to be more sensitive to racism? Why is it that you feel that children shouldn't be taught at every opportunity to be more tolerant and open-minded and loving, no matter what race the person they are interacting with is?
Post by
Sagramor
Just because racism isn't this overt in public schools, you feel they are free from needing to be more sensitive to racism?
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean, but you shouldn't be sensitive to racism, you should set it wide open before the people so that they can beat on it relentlessly until it dies.
Ridendo castigat mores.
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MyTie
Just because racism isn't this overt in public schools, you feel they are free from needing to be more sensitive to racism?
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean, but you shouldn't be sensitive to racism, you should set it wide open before the people so that they can beat on it relentlessly until it dies.
Ridendo castigat mores.
I was being facetious. However, I think your argument is semantical. If I wanted to seriously argue the point, you can't "beat on it" if you aren't aware of it, and you can't be aware of it if you are oblivious to it, which would be the opposite of "sensitive to it". My point wasn't that one must be overly sensitive, which you inferred.
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Sagramor
I was being facetious.
They really should have a font for that.
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