discrimination

it still amazes me in this day and age how racist people still are,i live in a white community and i am not racist but everyone around me is racist to everything that is not like them and it makes me sick to my stomach.

i even have to deal with it at work,so i think its time for everyone in the world to grow up and start accepting people for who they are and what they look like

It's not going to happen, people will always judge others based on looks and visual differences.

yeah i know and i thinks its the biggest load of bs in the world,its hapenned to me because im not the greatest looking guy in the world but i am definetly one of the nicest and i hate the fact that i will be judged by looks

ericadurancefan, know what you mean! I see alot of it too, its really sad because nobody I know of even knows any black people, most have never even seen one in real life! can you belive that? very sad but true

Originally posted by ericadurancefan
it still amazes me in this day and age how racist people still are,i live in a white community and i am not racist but everyone around me is racist to everything that is not like them and it makes me sick to my stomach.

i even have to deal with it at work,so i think its time for everyone in the world to grow up and start accepting people for who they are and what they look like

I think it's funny how people use the term "in this day and age" as if that should denote progress on some sort of social level.

That's not a jab at you, but more an observation on my part.

society in my opinion is falling back,prime example after9-11 people began disccriminating against arab americans,like they had anything to do with it,todays society makes me sick

racism will probably always exist, no matter what, i have been a victim of it, ive seen it happen to others...

i don't believe it will go away any time soon...

thats sad but true

Originally posted by ericadurancefan
society in my opinion is falling back,prime example after9-11 people began disccriminating against arab americans,like they had anything to do with it,todays society makes me sick

Well, as some one who is speaking from experience, I can assure you that you might be disgusted with society in general, but it's something you'll have to deal with. You don't have to accept it, you can even try to change it...but you have to deal with it, or you'll go insane.

If you hate society then do as I do and lock yourself away from it, become a hermit!

I see no reason to believe that racism will always exist.
It’s typical of us humans to believe that the era we live in is extremely special or crucial or important.
In ancient Rome, people were not judged on their skin-colour. Slaves were prisoners of war, and could be white, brown, black or polka-dotted if that was the colour of the skin of the latest Roman Conquest.

We live in a “day and age” characterised by the national state and all the hu-jah that THAT entails with nationalism and racism. Real racism – the one where skin-colour matters, is only some 300-400 years old.

Sure, mankind has looked around and viewed “others” as inferior, such as the Ancient Greeks did towards any non-greek. If you were not Greek you were a barbarian. But that wasn’t based on skin-colour either, solely on you not being Greek.

As the world grows smaller and is “globalised” maybe we’ll progress. Saying that because something exists “now” it’ll always is exist is just temporal-centric! 😉

Barbarian 'barbaros' simply meant non-greek speaker, ie someone who spoke gibberish, 'bar bar' or 'blah blah.'

Ya BF well if you really want to do that, you'l have to build a little house somewhare away from everything, and all, and don't you like live in Huntington Beach, and in collage and stuff? is that locking away from society?

Yep, but I do a pretty good job of avoiding other people.

Honestly, I wish that I experienced racism so I could better judge the importance of the issue. Right now, due to my ignorance, I cannot gauge how 'bad' racism is. However, I recall that a German was lynched in front of hundreds of cheering onlookers during WWI. I think it was in the U.S.

It is hard to extinguish such deep-seeded roots and social problems when it is always portrayed in the media, in books you may have read in the past, in the schooling system, and even by government foreign policies. Such practices as 'do as I say, not as I do', does not hold well infront of public opinion, especially those who are victims of such heinous crimes. Examples can be written just of the top of the head: Native Americans and their treatment, African-Americans and the increasingly big margin between the rich and poor, not remembering that poverty breeds violence and criminals, how the US still stands on half of Mexican land; and so forth.

Even on the State of the Union address by Bush, stating that "African-Americans have shorter lives". He didn't even address the real question of why they have shorter lives; all he wanted to show was how much they would benefit off of his privatised Social Security plan; which incidently limits more benefits from the poor and working class, cutting Healthcare and limiting more hospital aid to homes and refuges.

So until such concerns are raised publically, and it is given a resounding voice for reparations for those who are oppressed, such inequality will only give birth to more inequality.

if people didn't have color of skin to differ between, they'd use hair style, money, number of cars, number of kids, something, anything....they want to be different, special, loved

racism isn't going away but it can be fought...and beaten on a small scale, one by one, as people say "this is not right"

Originally posted by ericadurancefan
society in my opinion is falling back,prime example after9-11 people began disccriminating against arab americans,like they had anything to do with it,todays society makes me sick

No, it isn't falling back. Blacks were always considered inferior to whites, but now most people know and admit the truth. If someone discriminates against you for your race, you're too good for them. Move on and be with people that respect you.

Discrimination is not limited to racism. Last Friday, I went with a small group of straight friends to a predominently straight bar. My friend, Sarah, and I were accosted on the dance floor by a man because I happen to be gay. A bar fight ensued which resulted in the police being called and Sarah's boyfriend, Chris, having his ankle broken. To add insult to injury, we were asked to leave and the group that started the altercation was allowed to stay because by virtue of me being gay in a straight club, the incident was somehow my fault.

rasist, sexist, homeaphobic.....it's all pathetic! 🙄