This has been said again and again. I am sorry but it is useless speech.
It'd sure be something other than white, or Caucasian, or cracker, or whatever the derogatory term is these days.
A weakness I see in the argument, "Racism has nothing to do with it", is that I knew I grew up in a household where we were racist, and I was racist until I was about twenty, and realised only ignorance was behind my attitude. I therefore see skin colour, or racial stereotyping has something to do with almost everything, but especially to do with feelings of privilege.
I wouldn’t care what color skin I wore as long as I came back as MALE.
Sometimes being off topic here and there is refreshing in a volatile thread
It's not lack of fat, it's the muscles shrinking that's a normal part of getting older.
You are indeed blessed! I don't have quite the glowing past that you describe, still nothing that has left any deep scars and I also feel very blessed.
I am trying hard to be careful when I speak to you because much of what I want to say you would be taken in the wrong way. I wouldn’t mean it that way. I still see ignorance behind your attitude, and perhaps a touch of arrogance. But then I have a lot of ignorance, as I am fairly uneducated.
You are a survivor, and I admire you for your positive attitude.
Oh, yeah!
Ain't that the truth?
Let’s see would I choose to be born black in America in a rich black family, a middle class black family, or a poor black family that loved and cared for their children. Or would I choose to be born in a white family that abused their children and beat them on a regular basis.
I have good strong biceps, and strong arm muscles plenty of fat surrounding them too... yet I still can see the crepey skin.. and the slimmer I get the worse it becomes
...funny that I don't have anythiong like that on my legs or torso...does it go there ?
or you could be born into a black/asian/indian family who are drug addicts who starve and beat you.. or equally a white family who are middle class but beat and starve you , .. or a well off Asian family, who treat you like a princess, and care for your emotional needs .. or equally be born into a family in Mumbai..,. where you're abandoned to fend for yourself from the age of 3 or 4 and become one of the hundreds of thousands of street kids
I am trying hard to be careful when I speak to you because much of what I want to say you would be taken in the wrong way. I wouldn’t mean it that way. I still see ignorance behind your attitude, and perhaps a touch of arrogance. But then I have a lot of ignorance, as I am fairly uneducated.
You see things from the top down, I see things from the bottom up.
Your parents, who I don’t know, might have been racist, or might not. Or they might have felt superior. Superiority goes hand in hand with arrogance. Superiority combined with arrogance can often be confused with racism or a kind of mock racism.
After all, if you, and those surrounding you, are peeing into a gold plated toilet; and the rest of the world is peeing into a hole in the ground; it’s better, more acceptable, and popular to carry the label of racism than just rich arrogant you know whats. Kind of goes along with saying I was racist until I was 20, then I saw the light, and am not racist. Maybe you never were racist? Idk.
Racism, good old hard core do or die racism was, IMO, born in the south in the USA. It was not so much the plantation owners as everyone assumes, IMO. With the plantation owners it was about money, as it is now.
No, it was born by poor white people digging in the dirt who needed to be superior to someone, who needed a certain amount of arrogance to survive. Poor white people who could say to themselves-at least I’m not a slave.
Poor white people, in today’s world who can say to themselves at least I’m not black, brown, Asian, or whatever. It’s about MONEY. It’s always about MONEY. IMO.
A true racist is born into a racist family, spoon feed racism from the get go, and does not suddenly become non-racist. IMO. It takes years for a true racist to reform, like an alcoholic, they must always be on guard in case they relapse. But what do I know?
NO...I definitely wouldn't...but I wouldn't be worried about being born Black in the UK
I agree. I was answering the question asked. I would rather be born into a family that loved and treated me well no matter what skin color we all had.
You are over complicated the situation regarding my parents, because great as they both were, and of course when being administered to by black doctors or nurses they behaved perfectly, but my father expressed the view, "if a black family moves in next door to you move out!", rhetoric probably fed to him by drinking mates", and much worse things. I believe I became nonracist when I looked at Lynford Christie, UK's Olympic 100 metres champion, who held himself like a man, and I thought, "I'm not better than this man".I am trying hard to be careful when I speak to you because much of what I want to say you would be taken in the wrong way. I wouldn’t mean it that way. I still see ignorance behind your attitude, and perhaps a touch of arrogance. But then I have a lot of ignorance, as I am fairly uneducated.
You see things from the top down, I see things from the bottom up.
Your parents, who I don’t know, might have been racist, or might not. Or they might have felt superior. Superiority goes hand in hand with arrogance. Superiority combined with arrogance can often be confused with racism or a kind of mock racism.
After all, if you, and those surrounding you, are peeing into a gold plated toilet; and the rest of the world is peeing into a hole in the ground; it’s better, more acceptable, and popular to carry the label of racism than just rich arrogant you know whats. Kind of goes along with saying I was racist until I was 20, then I saw the light, and am not racist. Maybe you never were racist? Idk.
Racism, good old hard core do or die racism was, IMO, born in the south in the USA. It was not so much the plantation owners as everyone assumes, IMO. With the plantation owners it was about money, as it is now.
No, it was born by poor white people digging in the dirt who needed to be superior to someone, who needed a certain amount of arrogance to survive. Poor white people who could say to themselves-at least I’m not a slave.
Poor white people, in today’s world who can say to themselves at least I’m not black, brown, Asian, or whatever. It’s about MONEY. It’s always about MONEY. IMO.
A true racist is born into a racist family, spoon feed racism from the get go, and does not suddenly become non-racist. IMO. It takes years for a true racist to reform, like an alcoholic, they must always be on guard in case they relapse. But what do I know?
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