Debates like this go around for days. I was talking to my roommate last night who got a girl fired @ Applebee's the other night while we were at dinner. I won't go into the story because it's not important. What's important is that he considered her racist because she made some remark about asking the fellow bartender to use his asian calculation skills to help her with her ticket. I think that's a compliment to asian people as well as to the fellow bartender (who was white not asian).There was no hate accept by my roommate who asked the girl what nationality do you think I am? (Ok I'm gonna paraphrase the story). She asked "African American?" He said "I ain't never been to Africa a day in my life! I'm american!" Then he proceeded to tell me that she was a racist (the female was white by the way). I don't know about you but the person who seems racist in the scenario seems to be my roommate. He told the manager that she asked if he was African and the manager fired her on the spot (I walked aut before knowing the nationality of the manager).
I hate to say it but I agree with a previous statement about predominantly black neighborhoods being run down or crime ridden. This a stereotype that I have found to be true in the cases where I have been. In Fayetteville, NC in the areas that are predominantly black are low income, high crime areas. Now, everyone has a choice. No one has to live in an area like that. If you hang out with people like that you are going to become like people like that. However, if you are from a bad background, monitarily speeking, you can change it by changing your habits and your surroundings. Join the army or something. That is the easiest way to get out of your bad area. Now, not all neighborhoods that are low income are bad. I grew up in a low income neighborhood in California that was predominantly White and Hispanic. It was a great neighborhood. People were friendly, neighbors stopped to talk, people were generally nice to one another. I'm not saying it's because it was a white or hispanic neighborhood, I'm only stating that it was a good neighborhood and those were the demographics.
Now, descrimination and stereotyping will never leave because they are part of human nature. The brain uses these things to help with mental catagorization. If you saw a chevy van and you thought "man those things always look run down, have high emmissions and have no power" and you drove around it because you didn't want to get stuck behind a vehicle that is going to smoke you out of your car, you are stereo typing and descriminating. However, if you saw one that looked clean, quiet and was in perfect running condition it would take you by surprise because it doesn't fit your past encounters with these types of vans. Your brain processes this and say's "Well, it's not 100% right but there aren't enough filing cabinets in here to file this completely differently from the others.... so I'll just file it with the others and change the heading to 'almost 100%'"
Now, Racism is simply a catagorization that says that one race of people has different characteristics, abilities, socioeconomic status, etc. This thought process happens all the time. How about when people think "Man the US is the best country in the world because we have X, Y and Z! We're better than other countries so we must bring these things like capatalism to other counries so that they are not crappy any more" Sound Familiar? Now prejudice is 1:aversive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group. 2:injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights. This sounds like our country as a whole. If it wasn't going on on a gobal scale it wouldn't be going on on a local scale and visa versa.
If anything in this post bothers you, good. It's meant to. It's meant to be a wake up call that no one is without decrimination or stereotype. Even racism and prejudice are common. Martin Luther King, Jr faught peacefully for what he knew was right. He was an upstanding citizen BEFORE he did it, though. He always acted with respect to others, strength in conviction and his presentation was always done with proper english with proper pronunciation. No slang or ebonics or draw. People sound uneducated when they use any of these things in speech; white, black, mexican, asian, etc all included. You want someone to treat you equally than earn it don't try to bring people down to your level to get something, come up to thiers and they will treat you as an equal no matter what nationality you are in most cases. There, I've said it.
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Posted 05 May 2011 - 04:16 PM
I'm trying to understand peoples views and got first sucked in by a black gentleman's blog talking about how our white culture deprive them of opportunities and the vast amount of discrimination they face. I wrote to him about the varying asspects of racism or prejudice by talking about my experiences with some people in the black community treating me with disrespect and trying to categorize me with white ancestors that enslaved there black ancestors. no matter my view or stand point of telling him it isn't all people within a certain race and that the only way I am going to help anyone with there goals to get ahead is if they respect me he tries to say I am prejudice against the black people am I so wrong in wanting respect if you are going to enquire my help? I feel my only prejudice is against rude hurtful people. I have never thought I am better than anyone.
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Posted 02 March 2012 - 03:29 AM
Cammy, on 21 April 2005 - 03:52 AM, said:
I guess it all depends on where its coming from. When people assume my son plays basketball because hes black and he's tall he gets offended and he should. Not all blacks are fast, not all blacks can dance(my brother has no rhythm 
. We are not supposed to be smart, just be good at sports and dancing. When we get ahead sometimes people assume its not by our own merit, someone gave us a break, felt sorry or wanted to fill the quota. That irks me.
Many times people assume my son is going to steal because hes black and follow him around and his friends, they dont follow the asian and white kids around while they fill their pockets
, its something that some take for granted and makes me wish they could walk a single day in my shoes and see the ignorance in the world.
. We are not supposed to be smart, just be good at sports and dancing. When we get ahead sometimes people assume its not by our own merit, someone gave us a break, felt sorry or wanted to fill the quota. That irks me.Many times people assume my son is going to steal because hes black and follow him around and his friends, they dont follow the asian and white kids around while they fill their pockets
, its something that some take for granted and makes me wish they could walk a single day in my shoes and see the ignorance in the world.
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 10:09 AM
Racism and Prejudice are 2 such negative words that will remain until the whole human society gets extinguished.I often hear people making statements like since this guy belongs to this place he will have this bad habit in him.Judging a person based on his origin beforehand rather not even trying to know him accurately and superimposing on him something is truly unacceptable.It seems to me that its quite a natural trait residing in all of us the habit of judging everything through prejudice.In a broader sense racism is a subset of prejudice.Prejudice is the root cause behind racism.Simply taken to help someone just because someone is looking attractive, apealing and belonging to opposite sex,thereby ignoring the one who is older enough and really is in need of help is an example of prejudice and helping someone due to the fact that this person belongs to my caste,religion or my state is a form of prejudice and falls under the category of racism. Due to racism we either tend to overvalue someone or undervalue someone without even caring to know the truth underneath.The very serious consequence of this is we flee away from truth and makes us truly blind.
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