Let's see if we can shift the discussion to the more important issue - where is racism, and how do we end it? I will list a few of my pet peeves (excluding the obvious ones about the KKK and use of derogatory racial slurs and behaviors):
1. Women and anyone who is not white being paid less than a white male for the same job.
2. Affirmative Action - if you pass up a higher qualified individual in favor of a lower qualified individual based on race, it's racism...regardless of which races are involved.
3. The Bryant Gumble cry - I have heard both blacks and whites refer to any black person who speaks intelligently as being a Bryant Gumble. It bothers me more when black people say it. He has achieved a lot, and knocking anyone down for being well spoken and educated is very sad.
4. Cops beating the crap out of an unarmed black man...pathetic.
5. Black communities responding with riots. Yeah, that'll work.
6. Al Sharpton defending the acts of black teenagers who commit crimes.
7. Anyone, including the NAACP, who chastises a black man for impressing upon the black community that they can and need to improve themselves.
8. The classic act of jumping to conclusions that statements are racist. Several years ago in Athens, Ohio (Ohio University) there was a black fraternity having a bit of an impromptu street party. A police officer was quoted as saying "Stop running around like a bunch of zoo animals." (paraphrased) Oh my god, that's a racist statement...because we all know there are monkeys in a zoo, and that's what he REALLY meant, uh-huh!
9. Assuming that because I am white, I am a racist. Dude...do I REALLY need to explain that one?
10. This hasn't happened yet...but it will. If I'm playing euchre, and I reneg, it is NOT a racist word, and I will NOT say "RE-AFRICAN-AMERICAN".
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
~Bill Cosby


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