Racism - Come on down & Splain yourself Eh.

Skatchie

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science would actually certain races have certain advantages over other races. it's funny though, black people don't mind people wrongly thinking they have big wieners but for some reason they don't like the low IQ scores coming out from the same science. it's puzzling, lol
 

Trotz

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May 20, 2010
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Of course Chinese people are smarter,
proof is in the pudding when we allow in a million Chinese people and they soon corner our real estate markets. Unfortunately, what smart people we have tend to avoid the Government. Leaving the mentally retarded, like Jason Kenney (just listen to his speeches) to decide our immigration policies.

YouTube - Jason Kenney
 

EagleSmack

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I am completely color blind so am definitely not a racist.

I have, however, had racism directed at me my entire life.

Everyday there are ethnic groups around the country and around the world blame me for bad things happening to them or that have happened to them so I want to make a few things clear.

I was never a slave trader or plantation owner.
I have never attacked a different country.
I have hired and fired without ever looking at someones skin.
I shop wherever its convinient without regard to the race of the owner.
I yell at all bad drivers about their skills, not where they come from.

All this and I still get lumped in with everyone that ever did somebody or some group wrong just because I am white, well more of a beige/pink shade, and it's always the white guys fault. . None of the bad things were my fault or supported by me people, get off my back.

Can we talk about the reverse racism that seems to be the norm today.

Sadly, some would call this post racist.
 

Trotz

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May 20, 2010
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It's because the boomers still believe it's the 1960's and somehow black people are being kept down - even though they get a SAT boost, racial scholarships and receive preferential treatment under affirmitive action.

The same boomers who still believe they are still 16 yearold teenagers throwing paper bags full of **** at the "Racist Establishment", when it is in fact the boomers who now run the establishment and all the accompanying inequality associated with it.

The same generation that has somehow managed to screw up a country that is richer and larger than western Europe in resources and yet we are paying a million a home in a country with unlimited space and near-unlimited resources. In about five years, I will be looking into a job transfer to Australia, Finland or Russia.

Regardless, I know my own generation very well that are we NOT like the boomers. The question is if there will still be a country left by 2030/40; or at least one, that we can recognize as being Canadian.
 

Unforgiven

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May 28, 2007
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Because the white man cant escape what his race has done

Bah I never did any of that ****. The blame game is an old and tired one. Thinking that it justifies bigotry is just a crutch. Some people are assholes so feel free to point them out when they run their mouth, but don't join the ranks to try and get even. There is no even steven in this case. Only more pain and regret.

There isn't a single person that can't be blamed for some terrible thing in the past. What men have done to women and what women have done to men pretty much covers it all so make nice and avoid the trap of meeting ignorance with anger.
 

MADMOE

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I've experienced racism (& yes....I'm whitish) as in a previous occupation that
I was in for the better part of two decades, I was what is called a "Second
Party Collector" ( = Repoman) and have been in and out of many situations
that would sound like fiction. I've been on 68 different Reservations and many
of those on a very regular basis.

I can only speak about a dozen words in Cree (& none in Dene), but at one
point I could half-arsed follow the conversation in Cree. I'd be beyond rusty
now...but that was then. I rarely let on that I could (more or less) follow what
was being said unless there was a tactical (occupational) advantage to it.

My Son is Many shades darker than myself and has his Mothers very prominent
Cheek structure. If we go into a store and don't stick together, the store detectives
follow him like they're attached to him by a leash. Luckily my Son has grown into
a Man of 6'5" & about 290lbs so he doesn't suffer verbal abuse from any but the
felony-stupid crowd.....but I can see it there as an undercurrent....


They didn't beat you because the truth is thats what you wanted to do,not what you did do!

Moe
 

damngrumpy

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I believe people in a vacuum can clearly state they are not
racist and be truthful, if the person knows who they are on
the inside. People who know who they are can determine
to be anything they want, but if they truly know who they are
and are grounded they are not good candidates to be racist.
In our family. I have an adopted daughter who is Native, and
three grand daughters. I have a son married to a Jewish girl
and another who is married to a German girl.
I have cousins who are black, Italians, Hispanic, one Japanese
and so on. I find people are pretty much the same, sure they
have different cultural practices, and they don't all see the world
they way I do but people are people.
I don't see race, religion, nationality or colour, I see family and
I see that in the family circle of man as well.
Race has no place in my world.
well
 

Retired_Can_Soldier

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More often then not, they are pussies who hide in numbers and when they are confronted individually, they're cowards. I recall laying the boots to a couple skinheads back in the day after they referred to a friend of mine with the usual black, racial slurs.

Jesus Durka that was you. Those bloody boots hurt yuh know.:p
 

Praxius

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Because the white man cant escape what his race has done

As if the white race is the only race that has committed atrocities.

How about all those people running around in Africa raping women & children and/or hacking people with machetes because they're not Hutu or Tutsi?

How about what's going on in Syria right now?

Iran?

China?

North Korea?

Japan?

a large group of people in all races have done something horrible at some time or another..... should everybody who comes from those races be forced to carry the burden & responsibility for the actions of others of their race, even if it was centuries ago?

No, because that's stupid and solves nothing..... all it does is create and/or continue more hatred & division.

I have not committed any racist acts upon anybody through my life, nor have I kept anybody out of an opportunity based on their race, cultural or religious beliefs....... and I'll be damned if I'll accept someone tossing what others of my race have done in the past onto me as if I'm somehow guilty.

To those people, they can kiss my white ass.

Speaking of white ass...... what "White Man" are you speaking of?

Albino?

Spanish?

British?

Celtic?

Russian?

French?

There's many different types of "White People" with various racial traits depending on where they come from, much like many Asians & Africans...... should all the red-haired, freckled-faced celtic people be blamed for the actions of the blond-haired Germans of WWII?

Should all the white people in British-Canada & other nations who helped in the Underground Railroad be blamed for what happened to african slaves in the US?

That's the problem with pinning racism on an entire race..... it's inaccurate, it places the blame on everybody who looks like they belong to that race and implies that everybody from that "Race" are guilty of the past actions of those in that same race..... even if they were born halfway around the world and years after the incident in question occurred.

And due to the amount of interracial relationships that occur every single day around the world for the last god knows how long, it's pretty difficult to find anybody these days who are a pure blood of their race...... except perhaps in small, remote tribes in obscure parts of the world most of modern mankind has not visited or touched.

Take me for example..... I'm a white Canadian, living in Australia..... but my heritage is that of Irish, Scottish, Native American from the US, and if I wish to track back way long ago, before Rome was even Founded...... Spanish. My Irish roots/clan name is recorded as being one of the original founding clans of Ireland.... which originally came from Spain..... which dates well beyond 800 B.C.

^ In other words.... I'm not pure anything.... nor is anybody else.

If you want to target a racist action onto someone, target it to those who are responsible for that action.