Ok, first of all I was ******* around about the Apprentice. I didn't watch it, save for the last episode because my wife was intrested. However, that doesn't mean rasicism doesn't exist.
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In the times of real racism, African Americans couldn't get jobs, couldn't vote, couldn't go to the same schools, had to sit in the back of busses, etc. The KKK actually was seriously active and killed and tortured African Americans. Everybody in the south referred to them by the N word and treated them like dirt...
You pompus, mindless ****. Who put you in charge of determining what qualifies as rasicism? You're tenth grade history book version of Jim Crow is inspiring but it has little to nothing to do with rasicsm.
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Today's racism... "He looked at me funny", "I got pulled over by a cop", "I didn't get the job", "I don't have many friends", "I can't get into college", "I failed a class", "He didn't win the competition" and of course the finish to each of those is "because I'm/he's black." That's just an excuse these days for being incompetent and its pathetic.
Most of the excuses I see being made about race come from white kids not bright enough to get into Harvard ******** about Affirmative Action. In that case it is an excuse for being incompetent and you're right, it is pathetic.
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Sure there are still a few people with the southerner racist attitude, but as far as opportunities, the US government actually bends over backwards to the point at which there are actually more opportunites if you are black. Every company I've worked for, there have been a higher % of African Americans working there than the national %.
Bull
****
Name the companies.
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Those people that are employed... They worked hard, the studied hard, and they never accused anyone of being racist because that wasn't an excuse for them... and because they weren't making excuses, they became successful.
Why don't you go ask one of them (if you can work up the courage to talk to one of the mud people) if they've ever encountered rasicism in their lives.
See what they tell you.
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You can't get a job by sitting on your couch complaining about how you won't get a job because you're a minority. You will get a job by applying, interviewing, and proving that you are better than that.
Right. Then whitey gets the job instead.
Because he's white.
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Back to Apprentice... he didn't win because he didn't step up and say that Omerosa was a piece of crap and was no help.
Let's see, peice of crap. She must be black too, right? We knoe they're lazy and shiftless. Let me guess, she was lazy and shiftless?
I mean, hell, black and a woman. No chance at all of winning that thing.
No way, no how.
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That is the whole reason Trump even brought her back was to see how they would handle the situation. He didn't stand up to her or stand up for himself... and thus, he lost.
Riight. I see. He needed to prove he was an Uncle Tom sellout before he had any chance at the job by firing the sister.
Is that it?
You cracker *** cracker.
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Its the same priciple that was applied to the entire running of the show... any time a team member was costing the team the victory and the leader didn't stand up and point fingers, the leader went home rather than the person causing the issue.
How many people did the other dude fire?
None?
Must not have had any darkies on his team, right?
Am I right?
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I don't mean to vent, but I'm just tired of hearing the racism thing. I have African American friends, but not a single one of them ever talks about racism.
Yeah, I wouldn't talk about it around a freind who was a biggot either. I have a devoutly Catholic freind and I don't walk around telling him how much I think religion is a cause for suffering in the world, or that Christ never existed. I just let him be about it.
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They are the successful ones that didn't sit around and blame their problems on the world. Whoever quoted me as having the typical privlidged white kid response... no, i'm not 100% white, and not a kid.
Not 100% white? Grampa rape one of the slaves? Grandma like the dark meat?
What are you, an octeroon? I'm a quarter Japanese myself, but that doesn't mean I'm suddenly not a white guy.
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The only African Americans that I EVER see discriminated against are the ones that wear their pants down to their ankles, hats sideways or backwards, big bulky clothes that could be hiding anything, that speak "ebonics" to the extent that noone can understand them. But, there are white and hispanics that mirror this same EXACT behavior, and they too are treated the exact same. And why not? Simply put, they scare the hell out of civilized people. They appear to be uneducated and just out to cause trouble. Now whether this is true or not, depends on the individual... but even if they are educated and good people, why are they trying to idolize the wrongdoers?
Wrongdoers?
Oh, I see. If you openly embrace black urban culture you're a wrongdoer.
Because blacks are wrongdoers.
Got it. I'll keep an eye out for those shifty devils, good thing we can tell who they are by hopw they dress now!
Much easier than back when we had to judge people on their actions.
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I went to a college where there were several foreign students (I think that sums up all colleges). Of those, many were from South Africa and neighboring countries. Physically, no differences in appearance except for the dress code. Behaviorally, quiet, reserved, hard working, dedicated individuals... and they were successful there as well as landing jobs after graduation. I became friends with one of these individuals, and he was ashamed of the way that some of the African Americans behaved in our school.
He was ashamed they didn't act more...white?
Typical Oreo Cookie.
Tell Tom I said hello.
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Finally... the only way to beat a stereotype is to not live the stereotype. If you create a stereotype on a class (ex. blondes) then keep enforcing a point (ex. dumb) then they then have that excuse to fall back on, become comfortable with it, and then rely on it for the rest of their lives. This wouldn't be a problem if they didn't then raise their own families and teach their children the same values. Moral of the story, if you are being criticized for being something, go beyond that, and prove everyone wrong. Change the stereotype, don't become the stereotype.
You mean like the steryotype of privlidged white kids thinking rasicism is a myth that no longer exists?
Yeah, good thing people aren't really like that.
Haile Selassie!
Edited, Sat Apr 17 05:35:08 2004 by Smasharoo