Time For Whites To Wake Up

[Rahul]

That didn't happen.

Why didn't you intervene?

[rexbeccarox]

That didn't happen.

Why didn't you intervene?

I was seven and didn't know better?

[Rahul]

I was seven and didn't know better?

Good answer. Was an adult present? How many?

[rexbeccarox]

The bus driver, and, I believe, an aide. Kids got beat up all the time on the bus too. Not just black kids.

Also, I was wrong. We lived in North Carolina at the time, not Tennessee.

[Rahul]

The bus driver, and, I believe, an aide. Kids got beat up all the time on the bus too. Not just black kids.

Also, I was wrong. We lived in North Carolina at the time, not Tennessee.

Really? Beat up? And the bus driver just ignored everything?

[rexbeccarox]

She pretended to be clueless.

[Rahul]

She pretended to be clueless.

That's a shitty person.

[Mister Agenda]

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.

If you're in a position to fire bus drivers, I assume you got your step-daughter's bus driver sacked?

[rexbeccarox]

Exactly. My point is that, where you might see black-on-white racism, most people just see people being shitty to each other.

[Something completely different]

Well, Germy does have a Google education you know.

Germy the German Bigot wrote:

I got all of this by simply googling: "Is the south still racist?"

There you go. How can anybody argue with that?

Why? Is every information from the internet untrustable?

Time to enter the 21st century!

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Regarding the term Redneck: From the same article that Germy the Bigot quoted from, the term Redneck was also used to describe union coalminers in the Appalachian area. Miners wore red bandanas to identify themselves as union members, (see also the battle of Blair Mountain).

[quote]The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation, the red bandana, in order to build multiracial unions of white, black, and immigrant miners in the strike-ridden coalfields of northern and central Appalachia between 1912 and 1936. The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remains uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the 1910s, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a union.

I have already made the point that historic definitions of term which have come to be out of date are worthless in todays political arena.

Do you actualy grasp the consept of what I just wrote?

Germy didn't mention that one. So it would seem that Annik was correct that Germy was being selective in his Google research if only to bolster his bigoted point of view.

I did mention my dismissal of historic definitions in todays debates aswell I put most of the emphasis of what the term means today!

Liar!

Germy the German Bigot wrote:

The man who confronted a transsexual member of this forum with the accusation that giving equal marrige rights to people of different sexual orientation would cause society to collapse into inmorality, who opend a thread with an article that dictated women to return to the stove and serve their husbands and who opens a thread that accuses a black conspiracy for modern day racism.....

has lost the right to call others bigot and deserves to suffer from bigotry, until he let`s go of his biggoted views.

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.

And has there ever been institutionalised and legal discrimination against white people that was inforced through executive goverment action and social norm?

What you are talking about are sad but still "only" the results of racism which came into existance and used through segments of society only, but was never inforced by law, let alone made social norm.