More Resident Evil 5 racism claims

[rocketpig]

Kasz216 said:

Darc Requiem said:

rocketpig said:

BenKenobi88 said:
But I still think he's needlessly bringing race into the equation...not to mention I'm one of those people that don't care about slavery, that's in the past.

Shame on you. You're supposed to feel guilty for crimes committed by your father's father's father's father's father.

Of course, if your family never owned slaves, then you should just default to feeling guilty for being white.

I love how people point out how Slavery ended in 1865 but forget about the legal discrimation i.e. segregation that took place into the 1970s. Not trying to pick on you Rocket Pig, I'm just saying. Hell, interracial marriage was illegal until 1970. I live in Virginia, up until a 2000 we had a Lee/Jackson/King Holiday. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Martin Luther King shared a Holiday.....

 

Basically my point. The shadows of regular legalized racism are cast from much closer then just slavery... and most white people, even the Irish pretty much have to go "out of their way" to find racism.

However for a lot of black people it's just a matter of life and something you grow up with.

I'm not naive enough to think that racism is gone... The fact is, there will always be racism. Racism preys on the weak and ignorant. It's used as a deflection to cope with one's own failings as a human being by placing blame and hatred on another group of people who are different in some way.

And it works both ways... It's just more noticable in whites because in some cases, we're allowed to get away with it publicly with little or no repercussion and frankly, because whites hold a majority in both population and power held in America.

Anyway, I'm really not in the mood to tackle the subject of race. My earlier comment was simply a snide remark commenting on how some people want me to feel bad about slavery... Problem is that neither myself nor my ancestors had anything to do with it. My father's family was in Canada at the time and my mother's family was in a Union state. People bring up slavery to me and I laugh them off, as if I had something to do with it.

Sorry, but the Bitching & Moaning Statute of Limitations has passed on a lot of this shit. Let's worry about crime rates, poor/underdeveloped neighborhoods, education, etc... You know, shit that matters. Fix some of that stuff and "racism" will be minimized.