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I've been involved in interracial relationships also. The problem I see is that there are blacks who are angry about that type of relationship but for an entirely different reason than whites who oppose it. I'm not here to justify anything but whites today are real quick to point fingers at us and talk about both sides, but I think whites should actually try harder to see our side.
For example black men were killed and jailed for an allegation of looking at a white woman. Black women were raped and beaten at will by white men. And you can't think that all you have to say is I didn't do it and the pain of looking at a picture of Emmitt Till will just magically disappear. It has been really unfair for whites to have done and keep doing to us expecting that you won't create people who don't like whites because of it.
Why do whites think they can bully us then call us the racists for being mad about it? It doesn't make sense.
The white guys in sheets made up a lie about superiority. Blacks and others of color are mad because of what the men in white believed and how they oppressed and still mistreat people of color because of that belief. There is a difference.
Your post is all about justification of all other races besides, white people, not being okay with mixed races.
Take the whites out of it and you will still find Asians and Blacks not being happy about mixing races with one another. Or, Latinos and Indians not being happy about mixed relationships with each other, or Blacks and Latinos or Asians and Latinos or I suppose you are going to blame whites for anti-interracial relationships as well. I got news for you...whites did not create this. You brought up history, you need to go deeper.
I'm not justifying anything. I understand all about ethnocentrism. And what I am is tired of whites trying to make claims of racism in others when this system in America was created because of white racist beliefs. What I 'm talking about goes beyond interracial relationships and mixed children. I have bi racial children and I have had to talk to them about how complex their lives will be. I'm not denying anything you say, but I refuse to let these white racists here have an excuse to continue their maintenance of a racist system that hates our kids and denies them opportunities.
We just had a biracial president and he got the high majority of votes from all minority groups while he got 39 percent of the white vote in 1 election and in the low 40's in the next. And my experience as a black man with bi racial friends doesn't show me the widespread racism between non whites your comments will be construed to say. I have not faced the same racism from other races as I have from whites. I know that it exists but again when blacks fought for civil rights, asians, hispanics and native americans fought with us too. And so did SOME whites.
Whites created racial classifications in the 1600's so yes, whites did create this. Will bi racial children help end it? I agree that it will take more than that.
Whites created racial classifications? In the 1600s? Which whites? Where? Amazing you have not found nor discovered racial and class classification origination in Asia, Africa, India, the Middle East that are practiced to this day. Take slavery for example. Still practiced in the cultures/continents to this day. Here in this culture, the USA, I have witnessed first hand an Asian manager telling a white colleague that genetically, It would be impossible for whites to be as good an engineer as Asians. I whitnessed an Indian executive complain about business operations being located in a certain part of town because of too many Latinos and Blacks. You are going to validate these incidents of people of color expressing racial superiority originated with whites?
I have done a lot of reading about this because of how whites want to tell everybody how racism has been around since the beginning of time. Everything I have read from predominantly white researchers say that race is a relatively new concept and it was not practiced in ancient societies regardless of color.
Have you ever heard of internalized racism? If not, read about it. It explains a lot of things. Last, racial classifications were developed in Europe.
"Groups of humans have always identified themselves as distinct from neighboring groups, but such differences have not always been understood to be natural, immutable and global. These features are the distinguishing features of how the concept of race is used today. In this way the idea of race as we understand it today came about during the historical process of exploration and conquest which brought Europeans into contact with groups from different continents, and of the ideology of classification and typology found in the natural sciences."
Race (human categorization) - Wikipedia
Still, even as I have said this it doesn't mean that as I keep researching things that I will find information that might show racism in ancient societies. But having said that, we live in a place which has declared that for 242 years we have existed as a society where all were created equal. And all this but people of color are racist too argument does is try to deny a continuing racism written into law and policy by whites that continues to this very second.
You are talking about the hate that hate produced. And if you look on the world stage, colonization created or increased existing animosity.
How Colonialism Affected the Rwandan Genocide
Just an observation:
You spend way too much time fretting over race. If you hate this country so badly, you should know that 99.7 percent of the residents of Zimbabwe are black. Have you ever considered emigrating to a country where you wouldn't feel that the topic of race should consume so much of your time?
I do not believe in inter-racial marriage (though I was in one for eleven years - and thank God we didn't have any kids.) Experience has taught me that there is this slow and deliberate attempt to instill a guilt complex in whites so that they are dumb enough to accept genocide on the installment plan. You've not been able to change the minds of those who are more informed than you. So, now you're at a standstill, allowing the topic to consume you.
The reality is that the mixing of cultures, races, religions, political ideologies, sexual orientations, etc. only leads to the destruction of that civilization. Like it or not the white race did not invent slavery. The whites were the ones that ended (for the most part) the type of slavery that you complain about. Since you'd rather die than admit it, you cannot change the minds of many white people regardless of how long you make your posts.
I once sat on a jury, as a foreman and we convicted a black man accused of rape. He raped a 26 year old black lady from another country after she came home from her birthday party. Had he been innocent, I'd have been happy to let him go home. A DNA match revealed who he was, an eyewitness put him at the scene, the stolen jewelry and money reported missing was returned by his wife after his arrest... cut and dry. Members of the jury met with the family after I read the verdict to the judge and we all cried over the pain she endured.
As I tell you about myself, it kind of shatters that stereotype that you sell to the posters day in and day out. I don't hate people. I simply believe that if God had intended us to all be one he would have never destroyed the Tower of Babel (the objective of which, according to the Bible, was for the people to all be one.) God would not have made the people in China be of one people or Japan to be one people, etc., etc. In the end, you cannot force people to change their mind and it looks like you've pretty much failed to change people's mind on this board. I support voluntary segregation; you know the primary reason; you do not have the ability to change my mind and probably not the ability to change other's minds. Don't let the topic rule your life. You're bitter and hate filled. You're losing.
Why do whites like you think you have something to say that I need to hear?