Journal # 16 2/27/06
Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist. Clarence Page
posted by Mark Rounds at 5:50 PM
12 Comments:
BASICALLY HE IS SAYING THAT EITHER WAY WHITE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES NON-RACIST DO NOT COMPLETELY OWN UP TO IT BECAUSE THEY DO NOTHING TO STOP RACISM ITSELF. HE WANTS PEOPLE TO BE VIGILANT, THAT THEY SHOULD BASICALLY NOT TOLERATE ANY FORM OF RACISM BY ANY MEANS.
In my opinion white means power so as they grow up and learn that they realize that many things are in their favor. But I don't think that whites are just racist I think everyone has a little rascism in them.
MONISHA NEWBON
This quote is a weird quote but i think cassie took the words out of my mouth... white people who say there not racists need to prove it.. i would love to see that.
Yeah, I guess if you want to prove you're not racist or something.. I mean this thought of becoming anti-racist shows that you go out of your way to tell people to not say racist things, or you have deep conversations with people explaining to them why racism is bad and why you shouldn't do it. While these are all good things to do, sometimes people are people and they will never change for anyone regardless of what you say or do, and you must understand that racism is always going to be a factor of a society like ours. As long as there are still traditional people teaching their kids their values, the values of which have been passed through the generations, racist people are gonna pop out disriminating because they were taught such to do so.
i agree with this statement because it's about acting out on what you say you are. if you say your not racist then act out on it or it's not enough. it's like saying your hungry, if you don't eat then your not acting out on the problem.
not all white people are racist. But they can't even prove it because other don't let them. people are ignorant to the sterotype of the world and they don't care about how people really are and they don't want to learn.
Page-nasty is saying that people are pretending to be non rascist when they turn and do not accept blacks in their shops. he is right, jus cause people was never part of those 2 organizations does not mean they are not a rascist.
Yeah, I guess if you want to prove you're not racist or something.. I mean this thought of becoming anti-racist shows that you go out of your way to tell people to not say racist things, or you have deep conversations with people explaining to them why racism is bad and why you shouldn't do it. While these are all good things to do, sometimes people are people and they will never change for anyone regardless of what you say or do, and you must understand that racism is always going to be a factor of a society like ours. As long as there are still traditional people teaching their kids their values, the values of which have been passed through the generations, racist people are gonna pop out disriminating because they were taught such to do so.
I HAVE A STRONG BELIEF THAT IF PEOPLE HELP BETTER THEMSELVES, THEN THEY COULD ACHIEVE THAT GOAL. IT MUST BE A JOKE TO ASK WHITE PEOPLE TO TAKE AN EXTRA STEP. IT TAKES TWO TO TANGLE AND VICE-VERSA.
EVERYONE HAS HISTORY BAGGAGE SO THIS MUST BE A JOKE CLARENCE PAGE.
I believe I am anti-racist. I would happily beat the living hell out of ANYONE who feels they need to justify their anger at life by hurting people different than themselves. This is not because I don't respect their views; people are by natural law entitled to believe whatever they please. But if you are gonna hate somebody, don't hate their skin color. The body is nothing but a vehicle for the mind, so one's physical self is not really one's self, if that makes sense.
i think that withes call them self non racist because they have been on the high roads all of there lives.. and they try to keep the black man down still to this day
I'm so sick of everyone saying that all white people are racist. I'm not, I love other races and I am anti-racism; but people look at me and automaticlaly assume I'm racist or think I think I'm better because I'm white. I don't think I've gotten any better privalages so far in my life because I'm white, and I've experienced racism within Mexican, Black, and Asian communities. I know what it's like to be discriminated against and grow up in a racist family, but it's not an excuse to remain bitter. You shouldn't go through the rest of your life using it as an excuse because someone treats you bad. We're all people and should be judged according to our humanity. Like Bulworth said:"Everybody just gotta keep fucking everybody else till we're all the same color."
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