My Idea For Combating Racism

Here's what i'd like to do.

I'd like to turn all black people white, and all white people black. Let them stay that way for oh, say, two years.

You see, this is actually a technique that counselors use when two people are doing nothing but arguing all the time.

It's just on a much larger scale.

People will not understand each other until they've walked that metaphorical mile in another persons' shoes. People don't understand because they don't see what the other person experiences.

Until that day happens, all you're going to see is a lot of whining.

Maybe, just maybe,if this were to happen it would foster a greater understanding of each other and reduce the hostility and bigotry towards each other, and hopefully reduce the violence and the attacks. And maybe, just possibly, we could learn to overcome our petty differences.

i don't really think there is any other solution. Until something like this happens, the only thing you're going to see is a whole lot of whining, yelling, and screaming at each other.

You could say I'm a dreamer.

Ah, to sleep, perchance to dream. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, /When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, /Must give us pause."

 

I do forget what show I saw many many years ago.

It turned a white guy, Black.

He was told he would stay Black until his racism inside him died.

Gave the premise it would be a long long time.

I too dislike racism. Lets face it we are all prejudice about something, but to act out on those feelings is too much.

I thank 10 years of Active Army for changing me. I served with all types of races, religions and sexual preferences. I still feel every able bodies American should serve at least 1 contract, even if its Reserve or Guard.

Acceptance is almost a impossibility but tolerance is very doable.

 

I just love it when I come up with an idea that it stumps the entire audience.

They are just so riveted.

 

I agree with the comment about the Army. I guess us old folks are supposed to be more prejudiced but, I wear a Vietnam Vet hat & I have had others, black and white, come up & start a conversation with no reference to color or much of anything except "when were you there" & "where were you at?"

 

Ok, (I'd be black for 2 years) I'd still get up at 5:00am, drive to work, report to a now white boss (because my actual boss is black), then I'd drive home after work while obeying laws save for the speed limit here and there and I guarantee you I wouldn't get "racially profiled" by the evil mean racist po po, I'd have dinner with my wife, ect... WTF would be different??

Oh yeah, instead of being called a racist I would become an "uncle Tom" overnight

 

I just treat everyone one the same regardless of color.

And wouldn't the same issues still exist because everyone would know who is really black or white? The idiots from both races would still be able to hate each other.

 

Why would anyone call you an Uncle Tom? Would you be like the black guy from FOX News that's on another thread?

 

Any black that is a conservative is called an uncle tom. Bill Cosby being the prime example.

Liberals expect that all blacks be liberal and vote Democratic, if they don't, they insult and berate the to no end. Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Colin powell are the most famous examples.

The really odd thing about the way they insult and berate them though, is that they use racial slurs against them, while claiming that racism is wrong.

 

It's not only the colour of the skin, there are facial, bodily and hormonal features varying between blacks and whites, if you paint a black white you don't turn him white, he is black painted white. The reason why racism exists is that there are actually some differences between major human groups. Ancient greeks couldn't be racist with each other because they looked the same, they kept waging war for various reasons however...

 

This is an incisive and thoughtful post. Increasing the number of integrated neighborhoods should also help people identify one another as neighbors, instead of others.

 

"Can't you see the difference? He's black on the left and white on the right, whereas I am black on the right and white on the left!"

 

Uncle Tom is not a racist label. It is a pejorative term. Come on,
I don't know any black people who've said they don't like Colin Powell. Herman Cain is another story.

 

Then why is it only labeled to black conservatives if it is not racist?

 

A label can apply to only a certain group without being racist.

 

Maybe a significant portion of black conservatives are called uncle toms because they generally throw the black community under the bus in order to pander to the GOP's nearly all white constituency? Just a thought.

 

uncle tom and "guilt ridden white liberal" or "self hating white liberal" are the same pejorative term. If you use one, you cannot complain about the use of the other.

 

"guilt ridden white liberal" or "self hating white liberal" are "labels" used FAR more compared to "uncle tom". "White guilt" has basically become a staple in every conservatives vocabulary since Obama was elected.

 

Very true, I was mainly addressing the "outrage" conservatives get when they hear someone like Herman Cain or Allen West get called an uncle tom, but later call someone a guilt ridden white lib.

 

Why not come up with something that you can actually do? I have said many times the trouble with Democrats and Republicans is they refuse to look at things from the other's shoes. If we did, both sides would think much differently than what they do. What we are is followers, not leaders. We let our Party tell us how to think and that is why we think so stupidly.

 

Because this is something that can actually be done and has been done before.

Hera are three examples:

Black like Me by journalist John Howard Griffin He was a white guy who took dangerous chemicals to change his skin color to live as a black person in 1961.

Jane Elliot's blue eyes brown eyes

And the television show called thirty days.

All of these have one common theme, basically, to switch places to live like the other guy.

So why should they have to?


I think this is just another excuse to mooch off of people who have more stuff myself.

And, as usual, what have liberals actually done to put things into the black community to improve things for the black people?

it's not their responsibility to take care of other people.

 

Not a very intelligent thought. Black Conservatives who made it, didn't get caught up in quitting school, joining gangs and worked hard to lift themselves up out of the poverty they lived in. They didn't blame the White man for holding them down. They knew they could make it if they did what they needed to do to get ahead. And they knew they had to work harder to do it. Instead of cutting these people down, the Black leaders should use them as an example of how to succeed. A mentor to other Blacks. But what do Black leaders do to Obama and Cosby when they tell Black how to get ahead? They want to cut Obama's nuts out and condemn Cosby.

 

I have nothing against Blacks. At least the ones I know and the ones that act decently and treat me decently. I don't like the ones that act like hoods and are lazy.

I came from a dirt poor family of 8. I quit school and went into the Marines with a few of my friends. I had no real education, no trade. I met and married a girl 8 months after getting out of the Marines. I worked all kinds of menial jobs. Had two kids. But I did learn a trade. It didn't pay me a lot. I retired making only about $15.80 an hour. But I worked hard and for a couple of years worked two jobs. Worked all the over time I could get. In over 45 years of working, I only missed 5 days of work. My first wife never worked. She stayed home and raised the kids. We had it hard, real hard. But I save a few dollars evry pay day and saved it. I lived on $20.00 a week. I didn't buy what I couldn't afford. I asked nothing from no one. We made it. We didn't do much. I never got caught up in gangs. Never had a police record. I played it strait and narrow my whole life. When I saved enough to invest it, I did. That is the only thing that paid off for me in later life. I saved enough to help my kids. I know how hard it is and it really pisses me off to see people like me talking of wanting the government to take from those who did what I didn't do and made out real well and give some of their money to them because they didn't want to do what they did to get ahead. How in hell is that fair?

 

True, but we both know that the "outrage" conservatives pretend to have at the phrase "uncle tom" being used among a group of people they don't even like is entirely phony. They only bring it up as an attempt to deflect from their own racism and bigotry, and to try and attack their political opponents.

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What black leaders exactly? Jesse Jackson? Most black leaders seem to agree with Cosby. But the interesting thing about Cosby is, where the hell was he when blacks were fighting for equal rights in this country?

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A moocher? You mean like Cliven Bundy? Yes, I do agree that your average conservative is a dead beat moocher who loves to suck off the government teat. They just don't like when other people besides themselves do it.

 

After Hours is now on ignore.

 

I just saw an old video yesterday on these boards that Cosby made of all the achievements Blacks made to society, many which they weren't given credit for in the history books. I didn't watch all of it. I know Cosby has done quite a few lectures telling Blacks what they must do to get ahead and he was condemned for it. Yes, when Obama spoke of what Blacks need to do to get ahead, Jessie Jackson was caught on an open mike saying he'd like to cut Obama's nuts out. That's the kind of Black leaders Blacks have, They don't agree with them, they don't set them up os mentors, people to look up to and listen to. They condemn them for telling Blacks the truth.