Posted on 01/30/2012 2:29:07 PM PST by YankeeReb
I work very hard. My parents worked hard. Everything I have is because we all worked for it, right?
I was raised to believe that. And I do believe it. But about six years ago I saw a video that opened my eyes to the possibility there may be other ingredients to success.
It was after worship services at First United Methodist Church one Sunday. A bunch of us — all white, educated, and, I daresay, comfortable — watched a video. In it, people of all races stood in a line in the middle of a room. The leader of the group asked several questions, telling people to respond by moving forward or stepping back. She said step back if you had ever been followed around a store. Step forward if you expect to inherit at least a little money when your parents die. Step back if you’ve ever been denied housing because of your race. Step back if you worried that your hairstyle was too “ethnic” for an employer or if you’ve ever been stopped for driving your car in the wrong neighborhood.
Wow!
As I watched the video, I realized that even though I have worked hard most of my life, I’ve never had to put up with problems like that. I’ve felt accepted no matter where I went, and if I didn’t, it wasn’t because of my race.
I realized that even though my father had literally put blood, sweat and tears into farming land in southwestern Minnesota, that had he been Native American or African American his parents probably wouldn’t have even owned land in the first place. And my life would have been much different.
(Excerpt) Read more at duluthnewstribune.com ...
The sad reality is that a large number of non-thinking people will believe this trash.
The only real racism that remains today is in the Democrat party and in victimology groups such as the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus. Herman Cain correctly stated: "A lot of these liberal, leftist folk in this country, that are black, they're more racist than the white people that they're claiming to be racist."
I feel the same way. There should have been a warning to get your waders out and strap them on, you’ll need them to read that article. Very sad........
“It can be hard to see racism if you’re white”
It is not hard at all . . . I see it all the time. Gangs of minority youts “wilding” or “flash mobbing” whites. Minority youts committing hate crimes on white kids and adults.
No, it is not hard to see it at all!!
of course this means that if you a non-white then racism is very easy to see because everything bad that happens to you and everything that does not go your way is due to racism- just ask the race baiters...
“I realized that even though my father had literally put blood, sweat and tears into farming land in southwestern Minnesota, that had he been Native American or African American his parents probably wouldn’t have even owned land in the first place. And my life would have been much different.”
any black American or native American that puts blood, sweat and tears into farming land or any other occupation will have something to hand down to their kids...my dad was NYPD for 23 years during a time when cops made nothing...he worked second and third jobs regularly because he had to in order to make ends meet....this is why i now work 5-6-7 days a week as i learned my work ethic from him...
its not a matter or being white, black, green or blue its a matter of doing what is necessary to ethically get where you wnt to go....then again its much easier to cry “racism!” rather than work 7 days a week...
Yeah, first of all you have to be looking for it under every rock so you have something to blame for your abject failure in life, and to justify wrapping yourself in a comfy cocoon of permanent "victimhood".
"Where's my free stuff?"
Some people are, basically, trained to see discrimination. Look up college courses or essays on “microaggression” and you’ll see what I mean.
If we al took training like this, or lived in a culture that constantly looked for discrimination, the move up- move back issue would come out quite different.
A white who did not get an apartment is going to look somewhere else. A black will automatically assume that the reason they didn’t get it was their skin color, most often in the complete absense of evidence.
It DOES happen to blacks and Spanish-speaking people, but I’ll guess nowhere near as often as the “victims” think.
That article is the most racist drivel I have seen in quite a while. She is blatantly saying that if ones melanin content is different from hers, people are automatically unable to succeed.
If that’s not the most ugly, racist, bigoted point of view I have recently seen. I bet she fails to apply that to red heads and that makes it even worse.
I got to where I am in life through hard work. I will never apologize for my success.
I got to where I am in life through hard work. I will never apologize for my success.
So how does Affirmative Action help?
The result is, when a black person truly does achieve success, a lot of people will only think they got there because of Affirmative Action, or some other quota-based program...how does that help race relations?
I will tell you the first thought that went through my mind as I was reading your post, it was “Oh, cry me a f*ing river...” Then I caught myself and realized that I am White and I should feel guilty. Yeee Haaaaa!
you forgot the obvious bro- Cogressional Black Caucus (CBC)...
then again a Tea Party causus would be racist...
yes it is hard to see racism if you’;re white because the racism is directed at you if you are white.
Whites are told you can;t get a promotion, a job, position , get into school etc because you are not white.
Affirmative action the program which is racist towards whites and rewards those sometimes who are not qualified but they get it because they are not white
I stopped reading at “United Methodist Church”.
Forgive me if I don’t give a d@mn what a bunch of communists, atheists, and sexual deviants have to say on *any* topic.
Yeah, it would be nice if some of those quetions included “Step forward if you’ve ever gotten a job preference because of your race.” Or, “Step back if you’ve ever been passed over for the same reason.”
Yes, I’ve been followed around stores by aggressive salesmen...I don’t think this was racial at all-the salesman is just obnoxious! And if you are a woman, locking your car doors is a GOOD thing to do when stopped at a streetcorner where numerous men are gathered, no matter what their race. I did not think Native Americans even BELIEVED in the private ownership of land! This babe is just another lib zombie;)
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