Is Racism Against Whites the “New Black”?
Southern Man
2012/12/12 20:10:39
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I stopped watching Saturday Night Live right about the time it stopped being funny. The days of Will Ferrell, Chris Farley, and too many others to name are, sadly, long gone.
Think back, if you’re old enough to remember, to a time when Christopher Walken was on the show. Imagine what would have happened had he opened SNL with a lively monologue that consisted entirely of talk about his white-ness, how great it is to be white, and ended with promoting his latest movie in which he kills all the black people and thinks that’s just fantastic. Better yet, what if Christopher had taken the time to talk about how white his President was, and promised more white-ness in his second term?
Think that would stir up just a tad bit of controversy? I imagine it would.
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White people are just not that precious, we dont really care. Too busy properly raising our children, paying taxes and working
Back in the 1930s, Norman Podhoretz was attacked by 2 typical negro brothers one of whom used a baseball bat on him because he did better in school than Baseball Bat Boy -a typical jealous lazy violent product of the slums , read all about his encounter:
"My Negro Problem--And Ours"Norman Podhoretz,Commentary, Feb 1963
My own family tree is somewhat racially mixed. As I suspect most any Americans would be if they had been in this country for as many generations as mine has been and they actually went to the trouble to really investigate it.
Anyone, and I do mean anyone, has the ability to be a bigot and to promote racist values and bigotry. Like greed, racism/bigotry is an insidious beast. One which rarely shows itself in a large and grand way. Instead it creeps into the hearts and minds of individuals and exerts itself quietly until it gains the power to provoke irrationality and pain through those it infects.
No one is immune from it really. Not ever. It's the enemy within which everyone must defend themselves a...
My own family tree is somewhat racially mixed. As I suspect most any Americans would be if they had been in this country for as many generations as mine has been and they actually went to the trouble to really investigate it.
Anyone, and I do mean anyone, has the ability to be a bigot and to promote racist values and bigotry. Like greed, racism/bigotry is an insidious beast. One which rarely shows itself in a large and grand way. Instead it creeps into the hearts and minds of individuals and exerts itself quietly until it gains the power to provoke irrationality and pain through those it infects.
No one is immune from it really. Not ever. It's the enemy within which everyone must defend themselves and one another against.
There is nothing wrong with recognizing and discussing racial and characteristic differences which are significant to the individual and their personal ancestry openly. I believe it's even beneficial to the larger society as a whole. These are the variations which enrich and enlighten our own distinctively American culture. For it is of them that we are made. The harm is done when one identity is elevated in some way to an artificial station of superiority over another.
In this particular situation I see one group (whites) which for a long time enjoyed that position of superiority. Now the clock has come full circle and their time in the limelight has run it's course and many of them are struggling with that inevitable eventuality. Conversely many of those which for so long held in a perceptible position of social inferiority (people of color) are seeking satisfaction and vengeance for the injustice. What they may not realize is that in doing so they are in fact becoming that which they despised for so long. Thereby sowing the seeds of continued discord and separation which will continue to weaken our society as a whole. Racism, bigotry and greed. These are among the cancers that continually eat at the very heart and soul of our society.
Jamie Fox however is a comedian, using humor to express his individual thoughts on a variety of subjects (these are not the thoughts of an entire racial group), he is not a good basis for this headline. SNL is an adult comedy hour, not a place for the thin skinned or the overly sensitive on most subjects.
When considering and discussing something insideous and subtly ingrained into history and society like racism. One must remember that they will hear lies and excuses coming from all directions. As people attempt to explain away unitentional insidences of it which they themselves or others they hold dear have found themselves to be complicit in. Truth is often the victim in such situations.
The only true way to deal with such a situation is to own the truth, admit it and put it to rest. Then turn the page and set a new path for yourself. One on which you strive to do things differently and on which you encourage others to follow your example. The tit-for-tat pattern only fosters more of the same and fuels the feud. There will always be someone who was done wrong last but that person has to be big enough to say, 'Enough! I don't need or want reciprocity. Let it end with me.'
That's why it says in the bible, "Vengence is mine, sayeth the Lord" and 'Turn the other cheek'. Too many people pass those up in their eagerness to embrace the old 'Eye for an Eye'. That one only leaves everyone half blind.
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Jamie Foxx got carried away up there. The joke seemed to start out kinda funny - but then went sideways with the whole kill whitey thing.
Televised comments like that should definitely be condemned. No excuses.
But once we grow up you realize that we are really all the same, bigotry comes in all forms.
I think 'Black Pride' should be more about celebrating the awesome accomplishments despite the obstacles... not angry attitudes that seem to linger.
I think people are getting worked up over Jamie Fox's comments for no reason. The man is a commedian and an actor, nothing more. How many times through history did white people say hateful things about blacks in a cruel way? At least he's killing whites on the big screen and not in real life.... Plus... the whites in the movie need killin' as they are evil men.
I read a little bit of Fox's ramblings and one thing that struck me was his saying that as a kid, white people called him the 'N' word a lot, and that it hurt him which I can understand. But my thought is that he's probably been called the 'N' word a lot more by his own people all of his life.....the N word is the N word regardless.