DGS49
Diamond Member
It's EEEEEEEEEASY to call someone a "racist." And if you happen to be a paranoid "Black" person, it might even give you some comfort.
But people are multi-dimensional, and the word "racist" is one-dimensional.
Consider the following hypothetical statements:
"I have nothing against Blacks, but I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one."
"I treat everyone I encounter in my own life equally, but most of the Blacks I see on TV (since Cosby's off the air)turn my stomach."
Racist?
We have, in the American public sphere, several public figures who have lived entire lives living happily with "Blacks," having no problem, and never having done any overt thing to harm anyone, much less a Black person. But they are quoted as saying Blacks like fried chicken, or some such nonsense and they are branded with a giant "R" on their foreheads.
The news media have been flooded for the past several days with collective hyperventilations over some bone-headed statements from a guy who, as a hobby, pays a small group of Black men about 50 million dollars a year to play a game for him.
If that's "hate," i wish the fucker would start hating me. Really bad.
This is also a guy who has won humanitarian awards from none other than the NAACP for things he has done for inner-city (read, "Black") yoot.
Also in his history is a small collection of statements about the relative merits of having Black tenants versus Mexican tenants versus Korean tenants. He seems to have developed some rather strong beliefs in this regard.
At what point is one permitted to express a well-informed opinion on a subject, even if some people find it offensive? He has had hundreds of Black tenants, "Hispanic" tenants, Korean tenants, and presumable lily-white, caucasian tenants. If his experience with, say, the Black tenants has been disproportionately negative, at what point can he say, "If given a chance to choose, I would choose a Korean tenant over a Black or Hispanic tenant"?
Does the revulsion with "racism" DEMAND that one be stupid? Keep opinions to oneself? Ignore the experience of decades as a landlord?
And regarding the conversations in question with that wierd-looking [crude name for a vagina], he is merely pleading with her to "identify" as a quasi-white person rather than a light-skinned "Black" person. If a theatrical agent was recorded encouraging Halle Berry or Mariah Carey to be seen in public socially with more white people, would that agent be excoriated as a "racist"?
Only by professional umbrage-takers.
What we have is a rich guy who has so much money that he doesn't have to worry much about what he says. We have a disappointed and aggrieved girl-friend who is trying to embarrass him.
If what he said is "racist," and negates all of the good things he has done for Blacks and for society in general, then there is no fucking point in trying not to be racist. We all are.
But people are multi-dimensional, and the word "racist" is one-dimensional.
Consider the following hypothetical statements:
"I have nothing against Blacks, but I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one."
"I treat everyone I encounter in my own life equally, but most of the Blacks I see on TV (since Cosby's off the air)turn my stomach."
Racist?
We have, in the American public sphere, several public figures who have lived entire lives living happily with "Blacks," having no problem, and never having done any overt thing to harm anyone, much less a Black person. But they are quoted as saying Blacks like fried chicken, or some such nonsense and they are branded with a giant "R" on their foreheads.
The news media have been flooded for the past several days with collective hyperventilations over some bone-headed statements from a guy who, as a hobby, pays a small group of Black men about 50 million dollars a year to play a game for him.
If that's "hate," i wish the fucker would start hating me. Really bad.
This is also a guy who has won humanitarian awards from none other than the NAACP for things he has done for inner-city (read, "Black") yoot.
Also in his history is a small collection of statements about the relative merits of having Black tenants versus Mexican tenants versus Korean tenants. He seems to have developed some rather strong beliefs in this regard.
At what point is one permitted to express a well-informed opinion on a subject, even if some people find it offensive? He has had hundreds of Black tenants, "Hispanic" tenants, Korean tenants, and presumable lily-white, caucasian tenants. If his experience with, say, the Black tenants has been disproportionately negative, at what point can he say, "If given a chance to choose, I would choose a Korean tenant over a Black or Hispanic tenant"?
Does the revulsion with "racism" DEMAND that one be stupid? Keep opinions to oneself? Ignore the experience of decades as a landlord?
And regarding the conversations in question with that wierd-looking [crude name for a vagina], he is merely pleading with her to "identify" as a quasi-white person rather than a light-skinned "Black" person. If a theatrical agent was recorded encouraging Halle Berry or Mariah Carey to be seen in public socially with more white people, would that agent be excoriated as a "racist"?
Only by professional umbrage-takers.
What we have is a rich guy who has so much money that he doesn't have to worry much about what he says. We have a disappointed and aggrieved girl-friend who is trying to embarrass him.
If what he said is "racist," and negates all of the good things he has done for Blacks and for society in general, then there is no fucking point in trying not to be racist. We all are.
. But this isn't about me. It is about certain white racist males who think they're better than black men at everything. 
