tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32252561.post116002518933763032..comments2024-03-11T19:14:56.437-07:00Comments on COUNTER RACISM NOW!: Compensitory Investment RequestUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32252561.post-1167050843776649562006-12-25T04:47:00.000-08:002006-12-25T04:47:00.000-08:00Haha.. sorry for the double post buddy, never used...Haha.. sorry for the double post buddy, never used this thing before and the "this blog does not allow anonymous comments" thing threw me off.<BR/><BR/>You may be amused to know that when I read the secret word before posting this, it looks suspiciously like "xenophobia".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32252561.post-1167050747361487012006-12-25T04:45:00.001-08:002006-12-25T04:45:00.001-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32252561.post-1167050734154454042006-12-25T04:45:00.000-08:002006-12-25T04:45:00.000-08:00Eh.. I am in Australia, so, please take my comment...Eh.. I am in Australia, so, please take my comments with a grain of salt, ie, I do not really know what is going on in the US. However, this does give me a different viewpoint, which may be helpful.<BR/><BR/>Personally I regard people based on how well they reason. I have rarely found that race (ie, genetic appearance) makes much of a difference, as much as culture. For example, a lot of traditional asian people have very closed minded (and often racist) family values, and the more assimilated asians are, well, just like anyone else.<BR/><BR/>Regarding your videos - you are obviously not a stupid person, you have come to your conclusions through much introspection. But there is an underlying theme of continued personal victimisation. Now, I would not pretend to know your life story, nor would I suggest your life was easy etc, but living in that culture of victimisation amplifies all injustices a thousand times.<BR/><BR/>I have been victimised for many reasons in my life, and it's much the same, pointless and petty. People ARE pointless and petty, you can never change that.<BR/><BR/>If you walk in to a government office, and get served by a white woman, sure, she will treat you different to the well groomed white business-man who preceded you.. and if I walk in wearing a clown wig and makeup, she will treat me the same way. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately people default to liking/preferring those that look like them. I get along fine with most people in my work uniform... of course if I am served by an indian (india indian), or an asian, as I am white, they are not as chatty as they are with those that appear the same as them.<BR/><BR/>Ah, my point.... well here's an example, our indigenous people were slaughtered pretty wholesale by our ancestors (not mine, my family came here AFTER that :D) and those that survived have been treated quite poorly up until the end of world war 2. Now, however, we have given them "reparations" I suppose you could call it, in the form of a much higher pension than normal (pretty close to a full time job wage) and access to almost unlimited help to integrate themselves into our society. Unfortunately, they are still viewed as unsavoury, as a large majority of them (I mean, of the ones I see, 9 out of 10 unfortunately fit this profile) just remain in a permanent drunken state. <BR/><BR/>Also, those that have taken advantage of programs to educate them etc tend towards helping their own communities - I think it's because they still feel that they are victimised.<BR/><BR/>And I think it's true, if you say to someone, ah, you need help to get anywhere, you need money to live, you can't work, you can't possibly do it on your own.. that's terribly racist. The help they receive also makes it worse, if we took the pension away from them they would be pretty screwed, as they tend to reject education and the general way our society works - the race-based help makes them weaker. And yes, they are very racist, I have been called "f-ing whitey", and many other things by them. <BR/><BR/>If tomorrow the US government sent you a cheque for 10,000 dollars, JUST BECAUSE you are black, that would be the same thing. You're asking to be more opressed. To be patted on the head like a crying child and told, there there, it's ok, heres some candy. <BR/><BR/>I figure, either way, if you keep pushing the path of being different, and the victim, nothing will change for you. If the reason you give for your failures is "I am black and white people said I couldn't do it", then you are admitting that the white people who said you can't do it are right.<BR/><BR/>Going back to what I was saying about interaction with strangers, can you honestly say that you feel on equal ground, both in what you give and receive, with people who don't look like you? Will you discount my comments because I'm white?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32252561.post-1164456470000137212006-11-25T04:07:00.000-08:002006-11-25T04:07:00.000-08:00First of all, I would like to say that I have seen...First of all, I would like to say that I have seen your latest video response in the Racism debate on youTube. I personally believe that preferential treatment by Whites to other whites without so much as giving the minority a chance to prove themselves only perpetuates that institution of thought that minorities aren't equal to whites in the area in question. And if you feed the average minority this same lie (through the Media and by their ability to perceive the reactions of their lighter-skinned counterparts), pretty soon that minority will start to believe it.<BR/><BR/>The black individual has suffered this stigma for the last hundred and fifty years. It takes a while to break free from that sort of mental slavery. As an AfAm female, I have seen the effects of this sort of slavery and unfortunately it seems that we are not close to breaking free.<BR/><BR/>But I digress. I was posting because I felt that your line in the sand of either giving a financial donation or essentially being counted among those that support White Supremacy is just a bit excessive. Some lack the means to provide support in that manner. Maybe a rephrase is in order?<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing any other responses you might provide to "RV", as well as his usually misguided responses to your own.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Rook1015, aka NicoleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com