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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This is my point, you say it usually is, I say it is not that often. Does it happen? Yes of course. But not nearly as much as they believe. If you ask one of these minorities pretty much everything that happens to them is because of racism. That white dude doesnt like me? He must be racist. That girl doesnt want to go out with me? She is probably a little racist, etc..... I feel like this is a very harmful way to look at the world. It feels like they are putting themselves down all the time.
