I haven't seen people post on here about blacks being too sensitive. I will say though, that they've been brainwashed by the left to believe themselves to be a victim for simply being born.Waco1947 said:I would like your witness to whether your racial culture. My obsession is not the issue. Racism is the issue.Harrison Bergeron said:Honestly, it is not his fault. Liberal clergy in the South are obsessed with racism. I mean there is more gnashing of teeth about America in the 50s than saving souls.Canada2017 said:chuckleRawhide said:Waco1947 said:Yes, I said it because I was raised in the south, specifically Waco, Tx which is home to one the worst public lynching's in America in 1916. 10,00 people watched.BearlySpeaking said:It means they do not believe that a human being is superior or inferior on the basis of skin color tone or other ethnic physical characteristics.Waco1947 said:
This response is what I often hear from white people.
What does it mean to say, "I am not a racist?"
It is the opposite of claiming to be racist, as you did in a post a year or two ago.
I began my public education in segregated schools in 1954. I never met or knew black kids until my teens.
I was raised on text books that said little about slavery or racism in America and never knew of the lynching in 1916.
The school board was white; the police force was white; and the city council was white so how do you think a 6-16 year fared in understanding racism and how might have I escaped that culture?
It was a Methodist regional camp in Fayetteville, Arkansas where I personally met and knew and talked with African-Americans and their lives. I stunned to discover black youth leaders who lived two miles from me an went to Methodist churches. I did not know them inWaco and had to to meet them in another state. By the way that c regional camp was the first integrated camp in the Methodist Church. It was the summer of 1964 and probably organized in response to MLK's "I have a dream" speech August 28, 1963.
We did all our activities together - bible study, recreation, worship, and eating together. When we left Mt Sequoyah and went down the mountain and headed back to Texas the African American cars were denied the right to eat in the restaurants on the way home.
My textbooks in High School led me to believe that Robert E Lee was a great leader and hero to the south; states rights was the cause of the Civil War (later I learned he was traitor); and the south would rise again and the lost cause had not died.
Does one escape racism in that cultural world? Am I racist-probably but I fight against it.
My family owned a coin operated laundry in South Waco and so Culture made a difference in how I saw the world. I saw that I was a racist and moved to change myself as quickly as I could. It's still a journey but I am learning and my African-American friends are helping me realize blind spots.
I am not virtue signaling although many claim that I am. How is it a virtue to say "I am racist?" That is not a virtue. It is honesty. I cannot change what I do not acknowledge.
What you did there is closely related to the humblebrag
The old fool has been doing it for years .
Anything to garner attention and so remind himself he actually exists outside of the nursing home routine .
Obsession to you is for me speaking out about racism in America so we have effective change.
The general response here on these pages is "Just shut up. It is not an issue."
For African Americans is an issue however some believe AA's are "too sensitive."
Just because you're black doesn't make you an automatic victim. Just because you're white doesn't automatically make you a racist.