Personally I don't really think that this is newsworthy, at least not national news. I really don't care.
And, yes, black people ARE oversensitive about racial issues. You don't get NEARLY the reaction over calling someone of the appropriate race/orientation a paisan, a wop, a spic, a dyke, a fag, or whatever as you do calling someone a nigger, even nigga to a friend. Hell, when people make fun of asian driving skills they laugh with you. When people make fun of indian accents and food *I* laugh.
I don't think we're ever going to agree on this concept of racial privilege because you insist on taking a victim mentality on behalf of your entire race. My dad came here with nothing, worked his ass off, and made something of himself. You can say, "well, black people don't have the privileges (read: money) of white people"... but that doesn't hold up at all if someone with nothing can do what my dad did. If you keep saying "We need special treatment" you'll keep GETTING special treatment... and always be treated as different.
In addition, if any person or group or race wants to be treated as equals they have to treat others as equals, and black people in particular (and Native Americans) are very EXclusive rather than inclusive. If I hang out with a group of greek or italian or jewish people I'm treated as someone who, though a guest and outsider, isn't that different. I haven't guested with too many black groups, but the treatment is different, like I'm almost an alien. It may be that black people are treated the same in white groupings, I don't know, but that needs to be dissolved from both sides, not just one, if AS A RACE black people want to be treated as equals. No minority group can emphasize differences and then expect to be treated identically as the majority. That's basically demanding that the larger group conform to the smaller, which never happens. Things like ebonics, the so-called pimp-limp, BUFU clothes, and many others serve only to emphasize differences. Sure, you can talk about "maintaining our cultural identity", but if you want to maintain an identity different from those you're living among, treating one another differently than you treat others, then how can you expect to be treated the same BY outsiders? As long as you have an in-group/out-group dynamic it's bound to go both ways. You can also talk about "how we've been downtrodden and mistreated as slaves", but that was FOUR GENERATIONS AGO! It's time to get over that and move on. The Irish were treated like shit in the 1800s, formed gangs, excluded outsiders, and so on, but they got over it and aren't nearly as sensitive to that any more. Native Americans... well, they haven't. Nor have blacks. Someone makes fun of a "jewish" nose, not even jewish people get upset because it's just biology, but you make fun of a black person's hair (if not a black person yourself) and you're crucified. That's just stupid.
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And, yes, black people ARE oversensitive about racial issues. You don't get NEARLY the reaction over calling someone of the appropriate race/orientation a paisan, a wop, a spic, a dyke, a fag, or whatever as you do calling someone a nigger, even nigga to a friend. Hell, when people make fun of asian driving skills they laugh with you. When people make fun of indian accents and food *I* laugh.
I don't think we're ever going to agree on this concept of racial privilege because you insist on taking a victim mentality on behalf of your entire race. My dad came here with nothing, worked his ass off, and made something of himself. You can say, "well, black people don't have the privileges (read: money) of white people"... but that doesn't hold up at all if someone with nothing can do what my dad did. If you keep saying "We need special treatment" you'll keep GETTING special treatment... and always be treated as different.
In addition, if any person or group or race wants to be treated as equals they have to treat others as equals, and black people in particular (and Native Americans) are very EXclusive rather than inclusive. If I hang out with a group of greek or italian or jewish people I'm treated as someone who, though a guest and outsider, isn't that different. I haven't guested with too many black groups, but the treatment is different, like I'm almost an alien. It may be that black people are treated the same in white groupings, I don't know, but that needs to be dissolved from both sides, not just one, if AS A RACE black people want to be treated as equals. No minority group can emphasize differences and then expect to be treated identically as the majority. That's basically demanding that the larger group conform to the smaller, which never happens. Things like ebonics, the so-called pimp-limp, BUFU clothes, and many others serve only to emphasize differences. Sure, you can talk about "maintaining our cultural identity", but if you want to maintain an identity different from those you're living among, treating one another differently than you treat others, then how can you expect to be treated the same BY outsiders? As long as you have an in-group/out-group dynamic it's bound to go both ways. You can also talk about "how we've been downtrodden and mistreated as slaves", but that was FOUR GENERATIONS AGO! It's time to get over that and move on. The Irish were treated like shit in the 1800s, formed gangs, excluded outsiders, and so on, but they got over it and aren't nearly as sensitive to that any more. Native Americans... well, they haven't. Nor have blacks. Someone makes fun of a "jewish" nose, not even jewish people get upset because it's just biology, but you make fun of a black person's hair (if not a black person yourself) and you're crucified. That's just stupid.