I don't like racism and I only like racist jokes if they are coming from the mouth of the person who is the race victim of the joke. For example, I work in Salinas and my hispanic buddy Hector always tells me Mexican jokes. Then, Will, my African-American buddy will butt in and start telling black jokes. Then I'll bust in with the Polish jokes since I'm part Polish and very white. Then, someone will walk by and comment on how racist we are. I can't agree that three racially different dudes laughing together and at eachother is racist in this context. It's all about context, but still, I'd rather there be no racist jokes anyway. They don't do much good. Racism sucks.
about four years ago when i moved down south carolina I ended up going to this private school that was like kindergarden to 12th grade and it only had a 140 kids, but any way Racism was horrible down there, the teachers preached to kids daily in the classroomm about blacks and mexicans shouldnt be excepted in socialism and would always use the N word. I would always tell them to knock that off and being from up north the just called me a dirty yank whos opinions dont mean shit. So not only do they hold racisim true they keep going on about how the south really won the cival war. there was somthin seriously wrong with these people but i eventually got kicked out because so many fights were started with me they started them i only finished them and i got kicked just because i questioned the things they were teaching but im glad i did
I know where you're coming from ragesRemorse. I was in shock at the blatant racism in South Carolina. I moved down right before OJ killed Nicole and you cannot believe the comments I heard, especially since I share her name. It's still on the boycott list for the NAACP cuz the Confederate flag still sits on the State House grounds even though it has finally been removed from the State House Dome.
there's people at my school who are so damn racist and narrow minded..... i am so fed up i am not going to listen to it anymore, another racist comment and i will flip and then when they go "oh it;s just a joke it's just a joke" i'm going to ask them if they think steven lawrences death was a joke or if black slavery in th US was joke
i know what you mean when i lived in columbia S.C there was so much crap being said about that damn confedrate flag hupla, they would always say oh what about southern pride cant we wave our flag for pride? you know what about american pride, the confederate flag goes against everything america is about. I dont care though its to much for to little i believe. And yeah i agree with you about racist jokes being said only as a joke, there still words inspired from hate
when the south and north fought in the civil war, the war that the south lost they waved there confederate flag to go against america, and now the south wants a right to be able to fly there flag with the american flag over the state house. Even though it doesnt embody racism alot of people use it as a symbol for racism and thats got a lot of people arguing and also the fact that it was used to rebel against america some time ago
They started flying the Confederate flag over the State House during the Civil Rights Movement. Then when Civil Rights won they didn't take it down. It was up there for 26 years. Now it flies by the momument to the Confederate soldier which is still on State House grounds. So it is still a bone of contention.