Racism or Reality?

White Americans, especially ones with as little life perspective and the sense of entitlement that the average American has, just don't understand racism. Most white people talking about racism in fleeting, because they see something in the news they don't like or they heard such and such from this guy or that girl. For many minorities, racism is a fact of life. If likened to art, a white males life is a blank canvas and he is able to form a piece and what his viewers see, while a black man in America is much more like an impressionist painting - his viewer first conception of what he sees already in mind, that man either has to reinforce or break away from what the viewer may think it is.

That being said, the socioeconomic divides cut much deeper than racism. Racism leads to more extremes (violence) but socioeconomic problems (which often go hand in hand with race and region) are much wider spread and less tangible than racism.

On another note, I've always found it funny that people in the FGC bitch about things needing nerfs or buffs in fighting games, but, when it comes to things like AA or tax reform in real life, they take a completely different perspective. Guess everyone's a communist until you fuck with their money.

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imo most perceived racism in america is a class issue, not a race issue. that said;

"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
What he drive
Where he stay
Where he work
Who you be...
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.
In fact, you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what??
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2??
Where were you when he was 12??
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol??
And where is the father?? Or, who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward, isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?
Or, are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans. They don't know a thing about Africa .
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today, a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs.
We, as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal- Mart with seven kids... you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer."

- Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
 
Blame is easy. It's basically anger. And anger tells the best stories. Such stories can even stand up in the court of law. Hell, it even feels better to blame others for our problems.

The thing about blame (b-lame) however, is that it's also disempowering to the person/people doing the blaming.

If I blame the government, or women, or white people etc. for my problems, then it's their responsibility to make me better.

Which it turn means that there's nothing I can do about my situation. In other words, I'm powerless. And it's a vicious cycle if we don't catch ourselves - blame others for my problems, feel better for a bit, start feeling powerless, blame the same people for my powerlessness, feel better about it, feeling more powerless, ad nauseum.

And then I end up believe that freedom is having no responsibility whatsoever.

So... if I can't blame other people for my problems, should I blame myself?

No. It isn't necessary.

Edit: I notice I'm dropping gems in this bitch. Self-awareness FTW!!! :P
 
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