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Americans Are Hypersensitive About Race
With newscasters carefully picking their words, and people accusing cartoonists of being racist (Why'd you draw a monkey!?) there seems no end.
 Homestar  15 Mar 2009 20:05
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I think Michael Richards, better known as Kramer, says it best in his defense speech..

You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman' ... And that's OK.
But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink ... You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund.
Youhave Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP.
You have BET.
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we'd be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month , we'd be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives we'd be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that?
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships you know we'd be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US. Yet if there were 'White colleges' THAT would be a racist college.
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud. But you call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists?
 
 coelho  16 Mar 2009 19:21
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You may be right
 
 Specter87  16 Mar 2009 13:56
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I agree. Nowadays, everyone is caught up with racism. People have to watch what they say or else they're deemed as racist. Honestly. There are a lot of people coming down on cartoonists because they 'portray racist stereotypes.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibK0SCpIkk&feature=related
 
 SlyOne  15 Mar 2009 21:05
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You might be right in regards to the media, however out in the real world I definitely hear way too much very real racist crud way too often.
 
 finsch  16 Mar 2009 19:29
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I don't think everybody in America is prejudice i just think a lot of Americans is prejudice do
 
 Shayla453  15 Mar 2009 22:29
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 I'm talking about in general.
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 16 Mar 2009 02:00
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