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Disgusting Trayvon Martin halloween costume... what is wrong with people?
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lunchtoast
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Who goes running in chucks? Don't half-ass it.
Arkos
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Oh come on he's just trying to be honest. It can get frustrating to be a decent person from the south and still hear so much about the evil things our ancestors did. Of course it's no comparison to the other side of the coin, and all of those issues still exist, but I think that's where this sentiment comes from often. It's like, "I'm a good person and I treat everybody the same and I see diverse people who are successful, I wish people would lay off me (and by me I mean the people of the south who aren't asshats)."
Judging from his tone I'm sure he doesn't agree with your straw men, or just doesn't understand the challenges that still exist
Extra Sauce
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Wow, that is disgusting. Worst tone of green ever.
PhoenixDark
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It's stupid posts like this that make me less than confident in the future of race relations.
The "calling out racism is worse than actual racism" card is decades old, and is mainly used by white people who want to pretend racism no longer exists unless someone - typically a black person or white liberal - revives it from its grave with an accusation. You see black and white people doing well in Alabama, and have thus decided that racism must not play a factor in the country - after all, we have a black president.
You see a picture of a guy in blatant blackface and see no racism. The fact that you live in one of the most backward, ignorant states in the country and STILL don't recognize racism and prejudice as a problem tells me everything I need to know about you.
terrifying that this is the "nice" face of the thing he is pretending doesn't exist.
I just had my own experience with a person wearing a racist costume.
My boss' daughter hops happily into the room I'm cleaning with a straw hat and a fake moustache while trying to speak in a Spanish accent earlier today.
When I realized that her costume was making fun of a Spanish worker, I flipped out on her. She's 13 years old and her mother allowed her to dress in a racist manner while working as a waitress at a Halloween party. It was disgraceful. The girl didn't get it and the mother didn't either. Both were laughing as I told the girl to change her costume.
Five minutes later the girl walks out of the bathroom with just the fake moustache on. The moustache is cut to look like Hitler's and she's doing the Nazi salute.
Some parents don't fucking get that kids can pick this stuff up so easily and it's their job to not allow for such behavior. Parents really let down this generation of children.
My boss' daughter hops happily into the room I'm cleaning with a straw hat and a fake moustache while trying to speak in a Spanish accent earlier today.
When I realized that her costume was making fun of a Spanish worker, I flipped out on her. She's 13 years old and her mother allowed her to dress in a racist manner while working as a waitress at a Halloween party. It was disgraceful. The girl didn't get it and the mother didn't either. Both were laughing as I told the girl to change her costume.
Five minutes later the girl walks out of the bathroom with just the fake moustache on. The moustache is cut to look like Hitler's and she's doing the Nazi salute.
Some parents don't fucking get that kids can pick this stuff up so easily and it's their job to not allow for such behavior. Parents really let down this generation of children.
Do you work at Fawlty Towers?
Not sure if honest if the way id use to describe that comment, ignorant covers it but theres a lot of willfulness in it, anecdotal evidence that goes directly against reality is bad enough, but trying to equate racism and the removal of it from society; no matter how misguided some of those efforts might be, is ridiculous and offensive. Its people like him that like that argue that voting laws were changed last year because racism is over while voting suppression is hitting poor minorities. Downplaying a decades-long struggle as a "campaign against racism" and implying the outrage is in some form dishonest and fabricated tells the whole story.
"Ni***r Agenda" was probably too much.
I don't know what the fuck that is, tbqh.
It's pretty obvious that she hates herself.
Holy shit, how does the conversation to do something like that start up?
I wouldn't say that much. Probably is just ignorant of some things.
I'd like to meet a black woman in her early 20's who's that ignorant to slavery. I could see overseas but not in this country.
With bullet holes in them or in the hoodie alone?
Hoodie, Skittles, Iced Tea. No bullet holes.
Yeah, I don't think they would take it that far.
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A More Normal Bird
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Want to know who this isn't true for? Everyone. Want to know who it especially isn't true for? Minorities and people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds; members of the first group being more likely to belong to the second. This holds true even for societies more equitable than the USA.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...an-Suddenly-Job-Offers-Come-Tumbling-In-Video
Black Woman Poses As White Woman - Suddenly Job Offers Come Tumbling In
Arkos
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Well I just meant he was being honest about his feelings. And I didn't pick up on a militant anti-civil rights tone, more of a lament that we all (rightfully) have to keep reminding ourselves of our past and the fact that that can cause the painful issue to (rightfully) linger. He may disagree with the parentheses.
Mainly, I meant that he wasn't exactly saying "Man racism doesn't exist anymore," and so I wish people wouldn't have attacked him as though he were. He sounded like the type of person that can be talked to rather than mocked (which will probably just reinforce his opinion)
I understand people taking offense too, obviously
dskillzhtown
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Holy shit, how does the conversation to do something like that start up?
Girl wants to be "accepted" so bad she will result to that bullshit? Carrying cotton and posing getting lynched? WTF is wrong with her?
That's what I thought too.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Everyone needs to stop using this concept to sound smart and cultured.
Yes, let's ignore it and it will go away.
... and you don't see how this makes you sound racist as shit?
I mean, besides the "success is a choice" bullshit,
What if a 13 year old in Spain dressed up as a character from Downton Abbey with faux english accent?
I hope somebody cleaned a bathroom with that idiot's face.
The difference is the Downtown Abbey costume was worn because that person likes the show. This girl wore the costume to make fun of another ethnicity.
shadowsdarknes
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Is that website still around that posted racist twitter posts online for everyone to laugh and shame?
Spring-Loaded
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Does Google still exist?
Another one from this year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24835322
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24835322
"The students said they intended no offence"
Fuck... how have these people got this far in life without stumbling blindly in front of a bus?
Disgusting.
I was going to say, posting a 15 year old info out there is going a bit too far, but then I read what she wrote... I honestly have no words, NONE!
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