Is it NECESSARILY racism?

Here's a good article on "transactional costs" of stereotypes written by a conservative BROTHA.

I agree in some parts with him!

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/w...20040421.shtml

Dinesh D'Souza and Walter Williams raise an interesting point.
Racism is all about INTENT.

Hmm.

About five years ago, my then-husband and a couple of our friends stopped off at a QT so one of my friends could run in and grab a pack of cigs. While we were waiting for her to return, some cops showed up at our vehicle and demanded ID from everyone in the car. We were detained for about half an hour.

We were released with a terse explanation that we fit the description of somebody or other they were looking for. We were four 30 - 40 something, skinny white folks in a white, '67 Ford pick up truck in Oklahoma.

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell description must have been given..."They're, well, heck, Bubba, you know! Just like Jim Bob, but there was CHICKS! No, I'm serious! Real live women-folk! And get this, there was NO GUN RACK on that there Ford. Communists, I tell ya."

because some of them have a chip on their shoulders and want to blame the white people for what our great, great, great grand fathers did.

I have black friends and I tell them that they are the only racists left. What would happen if we started a White Entertainment Telivision like they have BET? Shit would hit the fan!

:1orglaugh if anything with the word white in the title was started, theyd be off the air and sued in 2seconds.

I would agree that there are definite double standards.

We accept them completely now, they actually have the advantage when it comes to scholarships and jobs if there aren't many black people in the company due to the laws we have set forth to help them out. But yet we are the racists. It's rediculous. Get over it for fucks sake.

I've been in fights and I've had people do fucked up things to me but I don't hold a grudge for hundreds of years. We actually did them a favor. Would a black person really rather be in africa eating grasshoppers and beatles and fucking ugly bitches with saggy tits. I don't fucking think so!

If you're black and you read this, don't be offended. I'm not racist but I'm sick of hearing the bitching about it. You didn't go through it so get over it and quit using it as an excuse for when you do something fucked up on the white people. :2 cents:

In some parts of london I've seen black guys stealing ppls cell phones on the open street who didn't neccecary look like thugs or tried to pull you in a side street and steal the shit out of you if you see that happening a lot you might get scared :winkwink:

And in the US there are so many black people the only reason might be the mass media,I don't think you see gang stuff and robberies in every small city.the prisons are full of blacks because many can't afford good lawyers that might add something to the fear too.And of cause gangsta rap :winkwink: If you life in LA or New York maybe ppl had bad experience with blacks robbing them on the street or whatever,I have no clue never been in the US,in germany I haven't seen anybody beeing scared of blacks cause you don't hear anything about blacks robbing the shit out of you,in some big cities like hamburg nigerians and other africans are the big groups of drug dealers but nobody is afraid of them cause they don't rob or kill you.

Long story short sense the mass media makes the biggest image after that personal experience and in rich ppl areas in the US the ppl just might not like non white skin color :winkwink:

I am basically scared of clowns. It just isn't natural to smile like that all the time.

I don't know if I would call it fear, but I am definitely cautious when I see ANY group of 15-30 year old people together, doesn't matter if they are white jocks, or black thugs, or whatever you call an asian crew.

No one wants to get jumped, and through our own experiences we know that in groups, kids tend to do stupid shit, ecspecially if they are trying to impress each other.

But by themselves, I don't care more then I normally would, regardless of race.

I have fought blacks, whites, asians etc. And blacks definitely try the hardest to be intimidating, so I can definitely see why there are some white guys who would be afraid.

But speaking from my own personal experiences (Three occasions), blacks are the only people I have had confrontations with that I have never been able to talk out of a fight, and I always try to talk my way out of a fight.

I don't know if it's because of their social influence or what, but that has been my experience. It hasn't changed me at all though - everyone still gets treated with respect until they show me disrespect.

:1orglaugh true

As a white woman, I have my pepper spray ready when I walk out to the parking lot if I see anyone suspicious, all people male or female no matter what color. Bad people come in all shapes sizes and colors.