I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along with white people

Salon ^ | Jan 19, 2015 | Priscilla Ward

[exit82]

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[ThomasMore]

This girl wants a one way dialog...agree with me or else. Is she related to the POS POTUS?

[AbnSarge]

Believe me, young child of the world - white people know ALL about suppressing ourselves. But that’s called maturity.

[rdcbn]

She doesn’t know or want to know what its like to live in a world where people don’t give two hoots about race.

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This woman is obsessed with race and has latent hostility, self esteem and inferiority complex issues that result in a major chip on the shoulder.

She is a Black racist shapes her entire world view in terms of race. She is also a major narcissist who obviously feels everything is about her personally. She savors her victimhood and shows no desire to move beyond race as the basis for interpersonal relationships.

By her own admission in this article, when she looks at a person, the first and possible only thing she sees is their race and projects her racist prejudices, stereotypes and preconceptions about them.

Her room mates, on the other hand, seem to be disinterested in race and just want to treat people on the basis of individual merit and character as opposed to racial differences.

[maggief]

Things are calm right now at the apartment. I don’t bring up these sorts of conversations. I don’t talk about what happens every 28 hours — a black person is killed. My white male roommate and I, we just don’t go there. It makes things easier. Instead, our conversations shuffle between our day-to-day experiences at work, dating and the nuances of the city. I keep those “forbidden” conversations behind closed doors, and even when I’m alone I speak in code. I don’t say “white.” I use “they” instead.

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[HiTech RedNeck]

It makes the high minded pretty tired to try to explain that racism is wrong.

This is a kind of narcissistic, wallowing self racism. A superiority at being raunchy.

In this case, the victims really are doing it to themselves. There are children who beg for mercy for being orphans after parricides. While the Christian thing is never to completely shut off the mercy, there is also such a thing as talking cold turkey.

[Vigilanteman]

I'll give 10 to one odds that this ditz has never heard the name Miriam Carey, a single unarmed black mother with a baby girl in the back seat, who got gunned down by DC cops for the crime of driving too close to the king's palace in a moment of confusion.

Why do you suppose that is? Because the media disappeared her from the news cycle after 24 hours? Because of the race of the cops?

[HamiltonJay]

Any American black with a chip on their shoulder over race who thinks Africa will welcome them is a flat out fool One of the first things African immigrants learn, is that they want nothing to do with most poor black Americans. If you want to see some bigotry, look no further than how these two groups act toward each other.

It always amazes me how a man or women with skin darker than ebony can land on the shores of the US without a dime in their pocket from Africa or the Caribbean often not even speaking English as a first language and is more successful than most of the native born African descendants born here and given all sort of opportunities these immigrants never had growing up usually within just a few short years.

That should not be possible if society is just racist, yet I’ve seen it come true again and again and again.

Yes there are racists in our society, but the idea you are kept down because you are black in america today is NONSENSE.

[Cubs Fan]

“What’s happening in Ferguson?” one of my white roommates asked. “I heard some kid got shot or something like that.”

I too am distrubed by this white person's comment.

He/she should have said-- "yeah I heard what happened in Ferguson. Some big fat POS thug tried to take a cop's gun and kill him with it. But luckily the thug got what he deserved. Now a bunch of black people have decided it's an excuse to loot and burn businesses. Utterly disgusting."

[HiTech RedNeck]

why... “What a maroonette” would do nicely here (cue Bugs Bunny)

[goldstategop]

If you’re going to be honest, we would have no friends in this world.

You can’t be sure what someone else thinks. We all shut up if we are not sure that our friends would approve.

Why on earth does Priscilla Ward think she deserves a pass from normal social courtesies. Because she’s black?

Give me a break.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Excellent analysis.

[kidd]

My white male roommate asked me about the protest; I gave him a non-detailed response.

Why not just change the title of the article to:

I Don't Want to Get Along with White People

[ctdonath2]

I don’t talk about what happens every 28 hours

And most certainly doesn't want to talk about what happens every 3 minutes.

[Night Hides Not]

Get over yourself, beyotch.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Now that would have tossed her for 720 plus degrees worth of loops.

But the kid, unlike her, was probably trying to be considerate. He probably did know more.

[Responsibility2nd]

I need to stop with my mental temper tantrums. I want to get free.

Agreed. And if she would please stop with her mental outbursts of ignorance, racism and "It's all about Me!"-ism, then maybe she would stop writing this silly and immature garbage.

[Kickass Conservative]

I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along when dealing with Idiots like the Authoress.

When I was young unmarried guy, I wouldn’t have kicked her out of bed. A Woman’s Color was the least of my concerns. LOL

[caver]

Good lord! I wouldn’t know where to start with this article. So I better not.

[Chgogal]

Dear Pricilla,

I'm tired of suppressing myself as well. Tell your bros and sisters to stop making babies when 1. they can't afford it and 2. are not married. Tell your bros they should beat up or threaten brown people who are smaller than they are. Tell your bros not to beat up a cop. The cop will shoot back and will aim to kill. Tell your bros to pull up their damn pants.

Need I go on?