Alright. We can't dance around the issue. We have to be glaringly specific here.

I was racially mocked in front of a ton of other caucasians. No one stood up and said this is wrong. They just sat there like a bunch of rabbits and didn't speak up.

My stepdaughter on a school bus, when she was 8 years old, was verbally mocked saying she was ugly because she was white by a couple of black girls. No one said anything. Not the adult Bus Driver. Not the adult Bus Monitor. No one said anything.

If it had been the reverse, a couple white kids telling a black girl she was ugly because she was black adults of all ethnic groups would have jumped to the rescue.

Now why is that?

Because in America we aren't told racism is wrong. We're told racism is wrong if it's against a non-white person.

Us whites? Fucking attack us. We aren't going to say shit. No other white person is going to say shit. We deserve it or something.

Why?

Why am I sitting in my living room holding an 8 year old little girl who is sobbing because she was insulted based on her ethnic background and this is so ok no one will stand up, even the people who's that their job, that's their fucking job, to say, "This is wrong. Stop doing that."

Oh, but she's white. That's ok.

(July 29, 2013 at 9:54 am)Rahul Wrote: Alright. We can't dance around the issue. We have to be glaringly specific here.

I was racially mocked in front of a ton of other caucasians. No one stood up and said this is wrong. They just sat there like a bunch of rabbits and didn't speak up.

My stepdaughter on a school bus, when she was 8 years old, was verbally mocked saying she was ugly because she was white by a couple of black girls. No one said anything. Not the adult Bus Driver. Not the adult Bus Monitor. No one said anything.

If it had been the reverse, a couple white kids telling a black girl she was ugly because she was black adults of all ethnic groups would have jumped to the rescue.

Now why is that?

Because in America we aren't told racism is wrong. We're told racism is wrong if it's against a non-white person.

Us whites? Fucking attack us. We aren't going to say shit. No other white person is going to say shit. We deserve it or something.

Why?

Why am I sitting in my living room holding an 8 year old little girl who is sobbing because she was insulted based on her ethnic background and this is so ok no one will stand up, even the people who's that their job, that's their fucking job, to say, "This is wrong. Stop doing that."

Oh, but she's white. That's ok.

It's a shame your 8 year old daughter had to go through that. Especially when there was an adult present who should have stopped the racial taunting. It's evident that the ones preaching the hardest against bigotry and racial intolerance are themselves the worse of hypocrites.

Newsflash: kids are cruel and insensitive towards each other. Government policy can change that... because kids always pay close attention to that kind of thing, don't they? Was your daughter told to go sit at the back of the bus because of her skin colour? No? Then STFU.

I mean, yeah, it'd be great if racial problems could have been dropped overnight when African Americans took a step forwards after all of the shite they had to go through to get any kind of semblance of equality, but old shit dies hard. Especially when there are fruitcakes who continually obsess about the colour of someone's skin. As if that somehow mattered.

Tell your daughter the same thing that every parent should tell their children: their classmates will sometimes be horrible - but don't take that as a lesson to do the same to others. Oh, and perhaps you could educate her about Rosa Parks and perhaps she might understand why racial-divides still exist (even in her lifetime) and perhaps (just perhaps) she won't grow up to be as racially-obsessed as her father.

(July 29, 2013 at 11:12 am)Red Celt Wrote: Newsflash: kids are cruel and insensitive towards each other. Government policy can change that... because kids always pay close attention to that kind of thing, don't they? Was your daughter told to go sit at the back of the bus because of her skin colour? No? Then STFU.

I know kids are cruel. THAT'S WHY THE BUS HAD AN ADULT BUS MONITOR.

Did my stepdaughter tell anyone they had to sit at the back of the bus? Ever in her life?

No. But she's supposed to feel guilty about it like it's something she personally did. So she has to pay. She has to atone for that.

She didn't fucking do anything like that.

Why should she pay for something she didn't do?

And why are you ok with this?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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(July 29, 2013 at 11:12 am)Red Celt Wrote: Oh, and perhaps you could educate her about Rosa Parks and perhaps she might understand why racial-divides still exist (even in her lifetime) and perhaps (just perhaps) she won't grow up to be as racially-obsessed as her father.

I'm not racially obsessed. You're just an overly sensitively trained, "When in doubt yell at them they are racist" nitwit.

(July 29, 2013 at 11:50 am)Rahul Wrote:

(July 29, 2013 at 11:12 am)Red Celt Wrote: Newsflash: kids are cruel and insensitive towards each other. Government policy can change that... because kids always pay close attention to that kind of thing, don't they? Was your daughter told to go sit at the back of the bus because of her skin colour? No? Then STFU.

I know kids are cruel. THAT'S WHY THE BUS HAD AN ADULT BUS MONITOR.

Did my stepdaughter tell anyone they had to sit at the back of the bus? Ever in her life?

No. But she's supposed to feel guilty about it like it's something she personally did. So she has to pay. She has to atone for that.

She didn't fucking do anything like that.

Why should she pay for something she didn't do?

And why are you ok with this?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

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(July 29, 2013 at 11:12 am)Red Celt Wrote: Oh, and perhaps you could educate her about Rosa Parks and perhaps she might understand why racial-divides still exist (even in her lifetime) and perhaps (just perhaps) she won't grow up to be as racially-obsessed as her father.

I'm not racially obsessed. You're just an overly sensitively trained, "When in doubt yell at them they are racist" nitwit.

Poking jabs at an 8 year old child? Obviously the levels of hypocrisy has no extremes with these with these so-called preachers of racial tolerance.

Actually, I remember an incident in which, growing up in Tennessee, a little black girl was mocked racially daily on the school bus and no one did anything about it. In other words, kids are cruel and will find anything to mock anyone about.

(July 29, 2013 at 12:39 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Actually, I remember an incident in which, growing up in Tennessee, a little black girl was mocked racially daily on the school bus and no one did anything about it. In other words, kids are cruel and will find anything to mock anyone about.

That's fucked up. I would have fired the bus driver immediately for not intervening.

Rahul, that's the 2nd time that you've claimed that I'm calling you a racist. I'm saying that you're race-obsessed. You see problems and play the race card, even when it is a situation which doesn't involve race. That isn't the same as saying that you're racist. Can you see the difference? If you can't, you should.

(July 29, 2013 at 1:29 pm)Red Celt Wrote: Rahul, that's the 2nd time that you've claimed that I'm calling you a racist. I'm saying that you're race-obsessed. You see problems and play the race card, even when it is a situation which doesn't involve race. That isn't the same as saying that you're racist. Can you see the difference? If you can't, you should.

What I'm talking about does involve race though. It's unavoidable in this situation. Black girls insulting a white girl that she's ugly because of her race. You can't avoid talking about race and relate what happened. What am I supposed to tell you? Uh, a couple girls told my little girl that she was ugly because she's a... uh... different or something?

Is that clear? You think you know exactly what happened?

Fair enough. You haven't outright called me a racist. But you claim that if I stand up and say an 8 year old girl being mocked by other kids about her race shouldn't have an adult sit idly by and do nothing that I'm racially obsessed.

Is that so different?

Somehow our society has determined that all white people are guilty for what happened before they were born and it's ok, it's alright, for people to beat on them.

I think all racism is wrong. And no 8 year old girl of any ethnic group should be made to cry by cruel kids about her ethnic group and have an adult consider it justified. To not intervene. When they see something that logically they know it's not right happen in front of their face and they think it's ok somehow.

(July 29, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Rahul Wrote:

(July 29, 2013 at 12:39 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Actually, I remember an incident in which, growing up in Tennessee, a little black girl was mocked racially daily on the school bus and no one did anything about it. In other words, kids are cruel and will find anything to mock anyone about.

That's fucked up. I would have fired the bus driver immediately for not intervening.

But you said:

Quote:If it had been the reverse, a couple white kids telling a black girl she was ugly because she was black adults of all ethnic groups would have jumped to the rescue.

That didn't happen.