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What's somebody like you doing in a place like this?
Wow. Nevermind my previous post. You really did bring on the pretentiousness. Congratulations.
*Applauds* The irony of this post is just so full of WIN.Now, you are a stripper, and basically by your vocabulary nt even a cop will listen to you if you complain. Learn to choose the right words when exchanging thought with intelligent individuals.
First of all, the correct word is COMPLAINT. Secondly, if you're so bored by everyone's beef with racism, then go somewhere else so we don't have to deal with your pseudo-self-help tirades.Your complains are getting old, same old, gets boring, very general and -excuse my language: MIERDA.
Gosh, that makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.I feel pity for you.
The idea that "true" Americans are Anglo in descent is common in homogeneous communities. You encounter that a lot less in more diverse places. As for Brazil: the way I understand it, the color of your skin isn't very important because it doesn't indicate a certain "history" for you. In America, however, being Black brings up the history of slavery in America, and all the stupid racial stereotypes that come with it.
I think racism effects Black dancers more than any other because the "exotic" aspect doesn't occur to most people. Instead, they just see "All American, Apple Pie, Cheerleader" white girl, vs "The Black Chick". Just let me know how many non-white Hooters girls you've seen in your life (and read their contract, it's fucking insane). This idea of "American" being linked with "whiteness" has been around since the colonies, but "othering" immigrants was one way to gain support for denying them equal rights. Irish immigrants used to be depicted like dogs in political cartoons, and were assigned many of the same negative characterizations that were given to black people (lazy, dumb, criminals, etc etc). Making Irish people "one of them" made it easier for mainstream society to dick them out of equal pay, equal rights, and civil treatment.
Jim Crow didn't end too long ago. Negative associations with "blackness" and "otherness" are still very strong. "Equal Opportunity" is still so far away that it's a fucking joke. We're getting there, but no where near fast enough.





Im shocked and disspointed that girls in the USA have to put up with this crap, we don't have thi problem in the uk, and it is not right for club owners to act this way at all.
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Racism is wrong (period) I don't dwell on it, I move on. I don't have self help, I have a mentor, I am the owner of 3 houses and building a huge business as we are speaking, I recommwnd weveyone gets a mentor. The sad thing is the amount of ignorance of certain individuals on this site, pitiful. If I can give a hwlpful advise to the ladies who need it I will share my way of building my success with you, and that's what you want. Envious people as Otoki hate to see and hear tohers success because they can do it and she obviously can't. So he point is again, MOVE ON, don't dwell on that negativity or you will end up suffering this and other crap your whole life, of course don't let anyone step on you, but see them as pitiful mediocre little people as I see the ones trying so hard to lower my beautiful way of being. Ladies MOVE ON! Is wrong and we all know that but MOVE ON. Trust. Me, you follow a leader and you'll get far, you follow the crowd (otoki and others) and you'll head ther way, which is the dead end. Otoki I'm not competing with you on who's post will people listen to, people know what's right and the doifference between oignorance amd rage and intelinghence and success. Who would you rther listen to? Obviously I sense so much rage and hatred for yourself, the way you express yourself should put you on a mental hospital, I would figure substance abuse?
I got a long day tomorrow, ivesting 6 digits on a project, so ladies remember what I said. I love you alll! God Bless!





unless you own those houses outright, you don't 'own three houses'. and somehow i bet you aren't mortgage-free.
“ROFL @ ''hipacricks''...greatest fuck-up of a word EVER in the history of the internet.--another forum
Originally Posted by ViolaStrings
Move on, move forward. There's a rainbow of cocks out there.
*I gotta remember this!*





prejudice is not racism.
racism is when the establishment backs you. in america, that means only whites are racist.
prejudice is ethnic hatred. that means anyone can be prejudiced.
i am only referring to practical definitions of each word.
If you feel like shrugging off racism, or just writing racist people off as "small", that's your prerogative. However, to belittle those of us who feel something should be done about it is rude, and your CONDESCENDING attitude and tone are antagonizing a few of us, me among them.
Miabella is absolutely right. We are talking about institutionalized, systemic racism, not just name-calling. To be white and say since you were called a few names that you have experienced racism is, in my opinion, ignorant and delusional. If someone calls you a cracker or a white bitch or whatever and you walk away thinking you are on some equal footing of feeling bigotry, you really have no idea what people of color have to live with. There are no words in the arsenal of mean words used against white people that have any equality with the words used to assault people of color, mainly because those specific words are backed by history and when they are heard, they evoke a living experience of trauma.
Do you know that as late as the 1920's in this country lynching photography was in vogue for postcards? Photographs of murdered and lynched black bodies were mass circulated through the US postal system and considered funny, interesting, novel? That is not even 100 years ago. In a historical context with a special focus on human memory and trauma, that is so fresh and recent. That is something white people have never had to live with. (www.withoutsanctuary.org) <--- DON'T GO THERE IF YOU ARE EASILY DISTURBED.
Do you realize that police brutality is the modern form of lynching and it is a HUGE problem. That if you are black, especially male, you can be murdered by pigs in a second and no one but your own community seems to care or think it was even illegal. Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. This means that the public always perceives you as a threat and never a person and cops are given full license to just murder you when they feel like it. I was in a bar once and a cop walked in singing white power anthems. I tried to report him and nobody gave a shit. If you are white, you are protected from this and when you hear a name called it doesn't even come close to this. Google COINTELPRO and take a look at what the US government does to black leaders.
As white people we have the huge privilege of seeing ourselves represented EVERYWHERE- barbie dolls, band-aids, television, presidents, sitcoms, EVERYWHERE. When you study psychology and group identity, you know that this is a big part of building community, feeling apart of things, creatively working out problem within the community. Constantly seeing white faces everywhere just reinforces the trauma of feeling OTHER all the time, something that as women we can understand, but not to the extent that I am speaking of, but being a woman and a dancer is a great jumping off point to understanding these greater forms of bigotry.
These are just small examples. It goes on and on. Just look at the racism in the current election.
Anyway what I am saying is that I agree with Miabella. Prejudice goes both ways. Racism does not. It is important that we reserve that word for the unique phenomenon of systematic, institutionalized prejudice towards people of color. If we use that word to go both ways, it loses its power to really speak of a specific reality and we cannot have that because these things must end.
it's sort of when a man calls you a slut and you are trying to figure out a word that has equal hurt power to call him. what do you say? little dick? even that doesn't touch the years of living with sexism that i feel when i hear "slut" from a guy. doesn't mean the words have complete power over me, but there exists no words with equal hate behind them toward men.
and i have nothing to say to lafemmediva since i understand her to be completely missing the point and engaged in a monologue of such unreality, i don't even know where to begin!![]()
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I get turned around when my boyfriend does the helicockter. I'm totally visual.
http://www.davkadeergirl.com
Originally Posted by ViolaStrings![]()
I get turned around when my boyfriend does the helicockter. I'm totally visual.
http://www.davkadeergirl.com
Oh wait I noticed now you were talking about prejudice from black people towards other people of color. A little different, but I think it still holds true to the lack of systematic, institutionalized structure, so I wouldn't call it racism. I would call it prejudice. Not that there isn't systematic racism towards latinas, that isn't what I meant. I guess I meant coming from black people.
complicated...
Originally Posted by ViolaStrings![]()
I get turned around when my boyfriend does the helicockter. I'm totally visual.
http://www.davkadeergirl.com
Davka, while I understand what you're saying about defining racism as institutionalized, I tend to disagree. I feel any bigotry based on a person's color is racism.
That's definitely a highly-debated issue in gender studies.
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