Re: Re: Why is "White Power" percieved as racist but "Black Power" isn't?
I will post this again.
Originally posted by Alliance
A good analogy:All races are playing a game of poker. The white player is an @sshole and he steals chips from all the other players.
All of a sudden, the white player announces that he's going to play fairly from now on. Yet, the other players still have no chips and can't be expected to play a good game. The white player may even hand back a chip or too, but still can outbully and outplay all the other players because he holds all the chips.
Centuries of inequality replaced by "Oh, we'll play fair now" does NOT cut it. Once minorities become competative (not: Oh look! I can name a black person), but true competativeness through equality. THEN racism will end.
Re: Re: Re: Why is "White Power" percieved as racist but "Black Power" isn't?
Originally posted by Alliance
I will post this again.Centuries of inequality replaced by "Oh, we'll play fair now" does NOT cut it. Once minorities become competative (not: Oh look! I can name a black person), but true competativeness through equality. THEN racism will end.
Originally posted by Alliance
All races are playing a game of poker. The white player is an @sshole and he steals chips from all the other players.All of a sudden, the white player announces that he's going to play fairly from now on. Yet, the other players still have no chips and can't be expected to play a good game. The white player may even hand back a chip or too, but still can outbully and outplay all the other players because he holds all the chips.
It's actually more like the white player giving all, if not more, of the chips back to the player he stole them from. Then the player loses all the chips and claims its the white players fault because they took those chips 300 hands ago. lol.
Stop using the past as an excuse to be lazy and not work.
Re: Re: Why is "White Power" percieved as racist but "Black Power" isn't?
Originally posted by Alliance
Because there is still distinct racial inequality in society.A good analogy:
All races are playing a game of poker. The white player is an @sshole and he steals chips from all the other players.
All of a sudden, the white player announces that he's going to play fairly from now on. Yet, the other players still have no chips and can't be expected to play a good game. The white player may even hand back a chip or too, but still can outbully and outplay all the other players because he holds all the chips.
Haha, that analogy is ****ing terrible.
There's only one person playing the game of poker, and he's the same person who's been there, from start to finish. He's the exact same specific person who commited the bad acts earlier.
The white people of today are not the same as the white people who commited the nasty acts of the past. This analogy would be better if the white person playing poker, was caught cheating and thus kicked out of the game, to be replaced with another white person. This new white person is playing the game fairly and properly, but the other players still look at him funny and blame him for the troubles of the past just because he's white. Even then, the analogy is pretty shitty.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
........ ok? ..and?...so?lol
So what you're implying is is that "White Power" is perceived as racist because....... Blacks are in the minority?
This is either the first time you've not made sense or my hangover is still in effect after the brain cell slaughter from last night's party, cause i didn't get your (brief) statement.
Hmm..well I guess one can make the argument that blacks aren't really in power and a minority - however, this is a rather fallicious argument - as many prominent Black's(Kofe Anon(sp?), Colin Powell) possess a certain level of power to a degree. The other fallicious part of this argument has to do with the minority thing, as it is quite apparent(particularly in these latter days we exist in) that the white majority(mostly referring to American's and those of Northern European(Anglo Saxon) decent) - is rather illusionary, since the world is predominantly made up of non-white people.(always has been that way)
So I guess to answer your question..the only real power that many "whites" have - is illusionary at best - and very limited at worst. This being the case, the terms "white power" or "black power", should not be considered "racist" in my book - but rather they should more appropriately be defined as "prejudiced" - since the term "racism"(and its derivatives) is usually used to define those who possess a predominant amount of the socio-economic power within a nation, as well as those who make up the majority of the population within it -- which unfortunately "is is" very inaccurate when looking at race from a global perspective.
So how does thou like those apples?
Originally posted by usagi_yojimbo
Hmm..well I guess one can make the argument that blacks aren't really in power and a minority - however, this is a rather fallicious argument - as many prominent Black's(Kofe Anon(sp?), Colin Powell) possess a certain level of power to a degree. The other fallicious part of this argument has to do with the minority thing, as it is quite apparent(particularly in these latter days we exist in) that the white majority(mostly referring to American's and those of Northern European(Anglo Saxon) decent) - is rather illusionary, since the world is predominantly made up of non-white people.(always has been that way)So I guess to answer your question..the only real power that many "whites" have - is illusionary at best - and very limited at worst. This being the case, the terms "white power" or "black power", should not be considered "racist" in my book - but rather they should more appropriately be defined as "prejudiced" - since the term "racism"(and its derivatives) is usually used to define those who possess a predominant amount of the socio-economic power within a nation, as well as those who make up the majority of the population within it -- which unfortunately "is is" very inaccurate when looking at race from a global perspective.
So how does thou like those apples?
Them apples taste as flat as your argument.