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The one thing that is perpetuating the whole "race" thing is PRIDE....Its evident there's tension and anger..I can even see it cross over into the forums.
I think one obvious step is to of course hear each other out and make an effort to understand each person's point of view. However, the problem with that is that things can get heated really quickly and just deter from the intended goal.
Equality is what everyone is obviously crying from their soul, from whites concerning proper news coverage when it comes to black on white crimes..or just crimes period... To blacks with simple justice concerning white on black crimes ( these are just *some* of the things I heard) ...
However to do this it would require an unbiased mind...still a start would be nice.
Serious answers..only..
No pot stirrers.
Everyone is free to have an opinion..just let it add something to the goal of the thread.
This is very interesting. I never felt or noticed that. But I only surround myself around certain people too. I also don't really understand what you mean by blacks getting upset at other minority groups. I just never heard of that. I'm from the south FYI. And I'm 27. Don't know if my generation is different or not but we like minority folks of other color. I don't know what you mean.That is just the point. The misconception is one in which USA Afro Americans focus only on the USA Anglo white people as their adversaries. But if you travel to Miami, you will find a very strong antagonistic situation between the black community there and the Cuban American community based on both envy for Cuban American success and based on actual discriminatory behavior from both sides.
If you travel to the Southwest, in such areas as Los Angeles, you will find a very antagonistic situation between the Mexican American community and the Afro American community there which often includes violence. This is based on competition for jobs and federal government resources.
There is also antagonism between the Korean American community there and the Afro American community for similar reasons to the ones just mentioned. When riots break out over perceived or actual social injustices, such as the one involving Rodney king, such Korean communities come under attack.
Sometimes the antagonism of the black community can be based on a feeling of superiority over a certain immigrant group which is considered to be socially undesirable. Such is the general view concerning Haitians who arrive in Miami and are socially marginalized and considered persona's non grata due to cultural and linguistic difference.
So the view that the antagonism is limited to Afro Americans vs. USA Anglo whites is a misperception.
This is very interesting. I never felt or noticed that. But I only surround myself around certain people too. I also don't really understand what you mean by blacks getting upset at other minority groups. I just never heard of that. I'm from the south FYI. And I'm 27. Don't know if my generation is different or not but we like minority folks of other color. I don't know what you mean.
Right, that's true about afro Americans didn't face the same as other blacks etc so experience is different. As far as my statement though, I am referring to african Americans. I'll look into it though. I know that my experience is not the same even amongst african Americans since I grew up different than a lot of them. Also think different than a some. Moving around and visiting other places you can tell that people really are different depending on the city too. Almost enough to be a parallel universe.I did not say blacks. I said Afro Americans because blacks exist in all countries and are not restricted to the USA.
Neither do all blacks have the same culture as those in the USA have. For example, in Latin America, blacks aren't bitter and as prone to riot as they are in the USA. That's because the historical slavery period background wasn't as severely unjust and inhumane in Latin America as it was in the USA.
As for the things I mention, I suggest that you google the subjects and in that way familiarize yourself with the situations in the geographical localities that I mentioned. Such information is easily accessible sand very informative via providing the social dynamics which have led to the development of the inter minority tensions described.
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I can identify with your never hearing about the social issues I mentioned since at one time the whole world was in a turmoil while my world was focused on playing my electric guitar as a rhythm guitarist in a rock band. In fact, the Cuban Missile crisis which was threatening to send all mankind into oblivion via a nuclear world war a came and went and my main concern was learning new song to play at our latest gig. I used to briefly notice the Civil Rights Martin Luther King demonstrators being hosed down and savaged by dogs on the TV news channel and my mind just uncaringly went straight back to whether I was playing a song on the D or the E chord. I guess being extremely young contributed to that attitude.
That is true some blacks did indeed sell and enslave each other but that is no excuse for slavery. It doesn't give it an okay. A stamp of approval... And speaking of one side of things, school rarely teaches about white slavery either... But it did happen and most people wouldn't believe me because it isnt talked about, not in school ( rarely) nor are their films about it one month out of the year as a reminder.
The whole USA society idea that Jews are a race which excludes all other races is a myth.
What are you saying?Then there's black people being the problem of feeling like they have to not be themselves around people different from them. Our hair is not straight. Our afro and braids are fine. Black people need to read more on truth instead of being angry at life and white people. Everyone needs to love themselves.
My son is a European mutt, his wife is Chinese. Before they were married he flew to Los Angeles to meet her family. They own a grocery store and live in a nice apartment above the store, which is in or near Chinatown. That evening he said he wanted to go for a walk and look around. Her brothers told him to wait until it was daylight, it wasn't safe for a white guy to be walking around there after dark. But it wasn't just whites, it was anyone that was/is not Asian.This is very interesting. I never felt or noticed that. But I only surround myself around certain people too. I also don't really understand what you mean by blacks getting upset at other minority groups. I just never heard of that. I'm from the south FYI. And I'm 27. Don't know if my generation is different or not but we like minority folks of other color. I don't know what you mean.
I think the BLM group needs to focus not only on hate crimes committed against blacks but crimes commited against are own as well.
It needs to be something drastic like simultaneous, instantaneous role reversal. It has to be; too many people DON'T know right from wrong.
Sorry, but that is a pipe dream. You expect all of the rich black people (and there are a lot of them--14 Million Dollars to quote Lee Baily's Eurweb.) to lower their standards to the white guy that only gets SSI and Food Stamps? What have you been smoking? True, it's only 5% of blacks, but still.
And how about the homeless black woman suddenly being thrust into a position of authority and being asked to perform at the same level as the former occupant of the office? The stress would be so great she would want to run out on the street and scream.
True, the locality where one is raised has a lot to do with how one tends to view reality.Right, that's true about afro Americans didn't face the same as other blacks etc so experience is different. As far as my statement though, I am referring to african Americans. I'll look into it though. I know that my experience is not the same even amongst african Americans since I grew up different than a lot of them. Also think different than a some. Moving around and visiting other places you can tell that people really are different depending on the city too. Almost enough to be a parallel universe.
Biblical knowledge via biblical education is no absolute guarantee since humans aren't primarily governed by logic or reason. Instead, humans tend to use reason to justify their emotions and the behavior which those emotions lead them to.Conversion to and education in Christianity is the answer to proper race relations and stop naming everything as racism.
Conversion to and education in Christianity is the answer to proper race relations and stop naming everything as racism.
True, the locality where one is raised has a lot to do with how one tends to view reality.
Race relation problems ARE NOT a matter of prejudice. Except for isolated areas, my generation ended all that - we love everyone.Its evident there's tension and anger..I can even see it cross over into the forums.
I think one obvious step is to of course hear each other out and make an effort to understand each person's point of view. However, the problem with that is that things can get heated really quickly and just deter from the intended goal.
Equality is what everyone is obviously crying from their soul, from whites concerning proper news coverage when it comes to black on white crimes..or just crimes period... To blacks with simple justice concerning white on black crimes ( these are just *some* of the things I heard) ...
However to do this it would require an unbiased mind...still a start would be nice.
Serious answers..only..
No pot stirrers.
Everyone is free to have an opinion..just let it add something to the goal of the thread.
A story on that, which I heard from a former PW of the Vietnam war.
This man, a sergeant, had been captured by the Vietcong in South Vietnam and was held for a time by that small Vietcong unit before being moved to a northern PW camp. During that holding time, the Vietcong commander would spend a few minutes a day interrogating him--but in fact, actually trying to convert him to the Communist side.
So the Vietcong commander would tell him every day about the evils of the American regime...as that Vietcong commander understood them. The American began to realize that in fact, this man had never travelled more than fifty miles from that very spot, except for a trip to Hanoi for officer training and then back again. All he knew about America--or the rest of the world-- was what he'd been told and what he imagined from what he knew of his immediate world. The American, realizing this, was almost amused by the crudeness of the man's world view.
At one point, the Vietcong officer hurled this challenge: "Do you think it is fair and just that officers in the American army get to eat eggs for breakfast, but you enlisted men are not allowed to have eggs?"
The American didn't laugh, but he retorted that enlisted soldiers could, indeed, have eggs for breakfast any time they wanted.
At this, the Vietcong officer got angry. "Do you think I'm a fool? There are two million men in the US military. There are not enough chickens in the world!"
The guy told me that was the moment he became truly frightened, realizing only then just how far apart his view of the world was from that of the man who held him captive. This man, having seen only farmers with no more than a handful of free-range chickens, had no concept whatsoever of how different anything could be from his own experience.
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