Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I just want equality, that's all i want. Is that to much to ask?
No, equality is not too much to ask. But maybe you should thank your lucky stars that you were born in a country that allows you the freedom to rant and rave and bemoan about the 'inequalities' that you suffer and the 'injustices' The african american community should just stop with their (pardon my american) bitching. You dont see the Native Americans getting up on their soap box anymore and bemoaning about how the 'white devil' took our land and raped out women bla bla bla. No, now how they're getting even is building their oh so wonderful casino's and takin the whiteman for the suckers they really are.
A more plausible explanation for the origin of white racism may be constructed with the help of Cheikh Anta Diop's two-cradle theory, one cradle being the Southern (African) cradle and the other being the Northern (European) cradle. Dr. Diop, who was born in Senegal in 1923, earned his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in Paris and is presently the Director of the Radicarbon Laboratory in Senegal. His theory implies clearly what white racism was a result of early European nomadism and the ethnocentric-xenophobic mentality that resulted from it. Ethnocentrism is a lack of tolerance for other races and xenophobia is the fear of strangers. Diop himself does not explicitly make this connection but his theory clearly implies it is interpreted correctly.
Interesting.
Originally posted by 2damnloud
A more plausible explanation for the origin of white racism may be constructed with the help of Cheikh Anta Diop's two-cradle theory, one cradle being the Southern (African) cradle and the other being the Northern (European) cradle. Dr. Diop, who was born in Senegal in 1923, earned his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in Paris and is presently the Director of the Radicarbon Laboratory in Senegal. His theory implies clearly what white racism was a result of early European nomadism and the ethnocentric-xenophobic mentality that resulted from it. Ethnocentrism is a lack of tolerance for other races and xenophobia is the fear of strangers. Diop himself does not explicitly make this connection but his theory clearly implies it is interpreted correctly.Interesting.
What's interesting about a guy who says something, but doesn't stand behind it?
"Diop himself does not explicitly make this connection"
I do the love the "white racism" though, like "whites" have some sort of monopoly on it. What a joke.
Micheal Bradley,a WHITE antropologist, attempts to retrace the prehistoric roots of Caucasiod agression in an effort to save the world by alerting his people to their racial psychology, a psychology that he claims has brought the world to the brink of disaster. Basically, Bradley claims the orgin of the white man's rage is due to the harsh conditions he was forced to endure during the last ice age. He discusses the side effects of glacial adaptation on the Caucasiod mind citing one major defect as the reason for most of the ills of the Western world, the absense ofa dualism concept.
According to Bradley, The white man is incapable of accepting paradoxes and interprets them as conflicts instead. This, he says, is a result of the white's own psychology of seperation because he himself was alienated from the rest of himanity in the freezing firelit caves of Europe - thus,his innate tendencies to seperate instead of syntheszing information first like people of other races.
Bradley also delves deep into the sexist fear-based erotic history of Europe and compares it to how other cultures have delt with sexuality and womanhood.
Originally posted by 2damnloud
Micheal Bradley,a WHITE antropologist, attempts to retrace the prehistoric roots of Caucasiod agression in an effort to save the world by alerting his people to their racial psychology, a psychology that he claims has brought the world to the brink of disaster. Basically, Bradley claims the orgin of the white man's rage is due to the harsh conditions he was forced to endure during the last ice age. He discusses the side effects of glacial adaptation on the Caucasiod mind citing one major defect as the reason for most of the ills of the Western world, the absense ofa dualism concept.According to Bradley, The white man is incapable of accepting paradoxes and interprets them as conflicts instead. This, he says, is a result of the white's own psychology of seperation because he himself was alienated from the rest of himanity in the freezing firelit caves of Europe - thus,his innate tendencies to seperate instead of syntheszing information first like people of other races.
Bradley also delves deep into the sexist fear-based erotic history of Europe and compares it to how other cultures have delt with sexuality and womanhood.
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"white man's rage..." LOL X 1,000,000
Let me guess, only "Whites" have rage? Peoples of Africa, the Americas and Eastern Asia did not war, rape and kill... Read up on the Zulus, possibly the largest black-African empire, covered much of Africa at it's peak; they did this by killing and subjugating other African tribes.
Well 2DL thanks at least for linking where you're getting your copied and pasted information.
It's good to give the intelectuals credit where it's deserved.
But as to the WHOLE topic of racism. WHO CARES!?!
We are all only human!
We all have 2 legs to walk this world (even though most of humanity refuses to do that mile in someone elses moccasins)
We all have 2 eyes to see this world (even though most of humanity have their own prejudiced and slanted view of it.)
We have 2 ears (even though most of humanity only hears what they want to hear and ignores anything else that is different then what they believe, or have been raised to believe.)
We all have 2 hands. (even though most of humanity keeps them to themselves instead of reaching out to help people in need no matter who or what they are.)
And we all have 1 heart.
And it is sad that alot of humanity has closed it off and shut it down instead of opening it up to everyone and everything.
I try to practice universal acceptance. It is hard at times, and when i'm surrounded by those that are closed minded and closed hearted it is almost dam near impossible.
Look....
This is real simple. What you have to ask yourself is why are Black Americans, American Indians, Aborignes, Moaris etc ****ed up even today? Why do do black people in America go to prison more often than white people? Why are these communities suffering more poverty than white people?
Is it:
a) Black people and other minorities are stupid.
Or
b) Is it a result of the past oppression and persecution that happened in the past, that still goes on today.
Another mistake alot of you people make is that because things have improved you think its perfect. You deny it but the way some of you behave contradicts this. Racism is alive and well the only difference is that its hidden. Lets give some examples:
1. In 1993 in the UK a black youth was stabbed to death by racists, despite all the overwhelming evidence the murderers still got away. Now we have more black people in the police force everyhtings ok, right? A documentary about 4 years ago showed policemen dressing up in white hoods talking about how they should beat black people up.
2. I personally watched a program were two asian policeman were interviewed.....and a white policeman happened to be present. What I dont understand is what the **** was he doing there? Why couldnt the police officers be trusted to do the interview on their own? You do the math, suprisingly the police officers came to the verdict there was no racism in the police force.
3. Racism in football. I cant remember the guys name but a footbal manager made it his business to focus on helping black footballers break into the game. You know what happened? He got sacked, because he said that you cant pay a certain footballer a certain amount of money because he was black.
4. Recently German soldiers were doing target practice. During the target practice somebody said "Imagine you're in the Bronx." A black seniro figure was shown on TV basically saying ....."It doesnt matter lets forget about it." What black person in their right mind would say **** like that? Obvoulsy somebody told him to do it.
5. It cant be proven for a 100% but the evidence point to the fact that Malcom X was shot by The Nation Of Islam; a group supposedly looking out for black interests.
Just because you have more black people in power doesnt mean everythings ok. Just because you have black people in power does not mean they will neccesarily look out for black peoples interests. Not all racists wear signs.
Now this is thing even if instiutions in the past had benefited from opression but everything was ok nothing would need to be done, but thats not the case. People are still suffering because of what happened in the past. You cant just forget the past, thats why history is important. History shows us why things are the way they are today by studying the past
I dont think all white people racist and at the end of the day we need to get through this together, but at the same time people should stop being naive.
Re: racism=stupidity
Originally posted by Onitsu
It's simple really.
Racism sucks. And those that are racist obviously can't see past their programmed prejudices to think for them selves and realize that we're all humans.
And the color of one's skin should'nt make a difference.
Yeah.....ok.....right. Brilliant, thats sorted everything out. Ok lets close the thread. Damn why didnt I think of that?
Originally posted by chithappens
I'm not going to explain this in full context because it takes far too long.
FOTN, I don't know what his point is and I never saw him explain it so I won't touch that.I am on of the people Blue is talking about though. The civil rights movement was headed in the right direction in the 50's when the message was "equality." It was not until the 60's that the message became "integration" which is a different message entirely. The message changed because of a lot of crap but the head man that is praised, Dr. Marin Luther King Jr., was a masonic preacher that helped change the theme to integration.
Integration did not say that all people were to be accepted. It was a "please let us in" cry rather than "accept us as equals" thing. HBCUs (Historical Black College/Universities) were doing well until integration because no one wanted to go to those schools anymore. Black businesses lose all sorts of money because now blacks can shop anywhere. Black neighborhoods are no longer where people want to be because now they can stay with white people. The list continues...
*On a side note, Native Americans were doing a lot of stuff around the same time that never gets mentioned. They really get it bad...
The civil rights movement was steered from it's initial and much more promising theme. That's how things started to go awry.
I could continue beyond the 60s if this is still not making sense...
You sir are AWESOME.
THANK YOU for taking the TIME to READ and DIGEST what it was that I was saying.
The first step to understanding.