Yeah, but they don't simply say "All whites are guilty" they convey it in sneaker ways, at the end of the day you know they're racist.
Ok look bruh, this a quote I had got from another site around 4 days ago, just read.
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12-10-2014 | 10:06 am
The following post is from a white guy and may be a bit on the long side. Feel free to skip.
I was a white kid who went to a school that was predominantly black - a class of 25 kids would have 2, maybe 3 white kids total. The school was less than a mile east of where Michael Brown was killed.
What I experienced there was unmitigated racism. The white girls were referred to as "the white *****es," no matter their personality, and there was open competition among the black kids to see who could get the most of them. To be a white boy and to not adopt black culture was to make yourself a target, as I found out.
Plenty of kids, like me were, beat up repeatedly because I was white. I once got beat up because instead of listening to rap, I listened to "white people music." Another time I got punched in the gut for not agreeing that "Black is beautiful." Another time I had to fight another white kid, who to impress his black friends, picked a fight with me "because I was a cracka." Afterwords, one of our teachers told us, "Haven't you two idiots figured out that the white kids need to stick together in here?"
To prove how black they were to one another, they would do things like steal and dump my text books (which my parents were then forced to pay for), push me down the stairs, or just sucker-punch me in the hallway or locker room. To fight back against one was to incur the wrath of the group. To report what happened to the nurse or principal meant further retaliation, so I never said anything. Even if I needed to get bandaged up by the nurse, I wouldn't say who had done it. I'm sure me being a small, nerdy, poor, socially awkward white kid made me a larger target than others, but based on what they told me, it was my race that was the biggest reason. I wasn't a fast runner, so I knew that when they said, "Get the white boy," that running was useless. I can safely say that fear of going to hell was the one reason I didn't kill myself.
I went to school there during the OJ Simpson trial. I was told by more than a few kids, "If they find him guilty, we're gonna riot and kill all you white people. You've been warned, white boy."
These things went on for most of my time there. It only stopped when one day, with tears in my eyes, I picked up a knife in Home Ec and blurted out to a black kid twice my size, "Leave me alone or I'll f*****g kill you." The teacher reported it to the principal. They understood what I had done; I didn't even get detention.
Not long after that, a black kid moved into town, and he became my friend. He's one of the coolest and nicest people on the planet, and was the best man at my wedding. If not for meeting him, I am pretty sure I would hate all black people.
I've seen firsthand the anger and frustration they have in those neighborhoods, and I know better than most white people what it's like to be a victim of racism. It sucks. It's about as s****y of an existence as you could imagine. Because of my experiences, black people still make me uneasy - when I see them dressing like and acting like the same people who used to kick my white ass, I would be an idiot to let my guard down. To this day I avoid many parts of St. Louis, because I don't feel like being a victim of the knockout game.
I'm glad the "race in America" conversation is getting ramped up and is everywhere, because it's long overdue. Based on experiencing racism due to the color of my skin, I sympathize with black Americans. Based on receiving racism from their hands, I can safely say they are not simply victims, but often perpetrators. Two wrongs don't make a right. Either all racism is bad, or it's all good, and to argue that "certain racism is acceptable for X reason" is to make an argument that is itself racist. I'm glad to so much attention is being given to the issue, but the conversation needs to go more than one direction, and the change needs to come by all races, not just the whites.
It's a vicious thing that feeds itself, but it is true that "stereotypes exist because they are consistently reinforced." The stereotype of "black people are violent criminals" exists because black Americans commit violent crimes at a disproportional rate to their population percentages. This feeds the fear and mistrust that white people have towards them, which feeds into the stereotype of "whites are suspicious/afraid of black people." These actions feed policies and decisions which encourages the criminal activities of those who feel oppressed, which in turn feed policies and decisions to discriminate, and so on and so forth.
TLR - change needs to come from both ends at once. Let's keep talking, and not just sweep this under a rug to fester.
That is all.
Credits to Suicide_Samurai.
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I simply posted, I think you'd know by now odds are I firstly didn't read your original post wholly, nor did I care enough to peek at comments wholly.
Filling space. And like I said, I wanted to unleash the quote. It sat too long C:
Exactly my point.
