SpokenTruth said:
omarct said:
Well this is kinda of what I was getting at. This sort of stuff happens often to blacks because of racism plus the thug culture and bad image that they have built over the years. Yet I feel like its gotten to the point where they are seen "ghosts" where there aren't any. The main reason I brought this topic up was from watching a youtube video where this very nice looking black youth commented how he was treated like a n**** that morning by a white couple walking down the street. How the woman held her purse closer and the guy starting walking behind her when they passed him. I couldnt help but think back to my own experiences and think that it is completely normal for a guy to walk behind his lady, specially if she has a really nice butt, I do it all the time. I want to trust the guy and believe his racist experience but another part of me is thinking maybe this guy is making racism out of everything.
My point is that it seems racism has consumed some minorities to the point where they link it with every part of their life. And I feel like a lot of those instances it is all up in their heads.
On a side note I have had cops pull out guns on me for putting my hands in my pocket to turn off my Ipod, not something you want to experience I will say. I was around 15 years old when it happened.
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Have you ever asked yourself why they suspected racism? Perhaps it's because it usually is. So forgive them if they made a bad presumption. Majorities have given them a reason to be suspicious of it. You would too if you were one of them.
So it's not so much projected racism but presumed racism.
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Yeah, i agree in a lot of cases it may be.
It is understandable that people get more sensitive to smaller less clearly signs of racism when they have faced a lot of real racism before( and of course media and politics also play into this) but also sucks for the one that is assumed to be racist when not having the intention to be.
A colleague of me always talks about white people being the source of everything bad on earth and him not getting evenly chances because of it,now partly that is true but this thought has consumed him so much that it sometimes also sounds like an excuse to hide the fact that he is not always fit for the same amount of chances other people get and not because of skincolor but just being individually less talented.
