on the receiving end of it? I'm Black, but honest to God racism doesn't bother me, because i know the reasons behind it. Anyone who knows history, knows that humans have been at each others throats since forever, and we've come up TONS of different reasons for being at each others throats: Sex, Age, Caste, Religion, Class, Orientation, Origin, Ethnicity, etc.
Race, is just one manifestation of basic human nature that could just as easily have been replaced with any other the other categories if humans looked the same. An Israeli feels the same level of contempt for Palestine, that a Klan member feels for a Black, that a High Caste Indian feels for a low one, that a North Korean elite, feels for some poorer members of his own people
ALL societies, White , Black & inbetween are guilty of some manifestation of tribal mentality that demeans other people in order to acquire power. Whites are not evil in the sense that they simply follow the rules of human nature, and were Blacks in the position Whites are WE WOULD DO THE EXACT SAME THING.
The problem only arises when people start talking about something which has never existed--morals. There is no such thing, it is a fabrication like religion, Santa Claus, or the tooth fairy--that allows some people to think that if they read a few chapters of some fictional book *cough* Bible *cough* and pray to God, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, or Elvis, that they might get to sit un fluffy clouds when they die
Go Getta: Brazil has one of the highest mullato populations in the world, because Spanish Conquistadors , upon arriving in the New World, hadn't brough a whole lot of their women with them, so the only women around were the slave women they'd brought with them from Africa, and the Native women, most of whom had been wiped out along with the men.
The Mullato population in Brazil, who in the U.S. might be considered Black, treats full Blacks the same way Whites treated Blacks during apartheid & Jim Crow. Yet mullatoes in the U.S. align themselves with full Blacks against Whites
The difference? It is advantageos to mullatoes to malign Blacks in Brazil, but not in the U.S. It's all a matter of convenience, not morals
Race, is just one manifestation of basic human nature that could just as easily have been replaced with any other the other categories if humans looked the same. An Israeli feels the same level of contempt for Palestine, that a Klan member feels for a Black, that a High Caste Indian feels for a low one, that a North Korean elite, feels for some poorer members of his own people
ALL societies, White , Black & inbetween are guilty of some manifestation of tribal mentality that demeans other people in order to acquire power. Whites are not evil in the sense that they simply follow the rules of human nature, and were Blacks in the position Whites are WE WOULD DO THE EXACT SAME THING.
The problem only arises when people start talking about something which has never existed--morals. There is no such thing, it is a fabrication like religion, Santa Claus, or the tooth fairy--that allows some people to think that if they read a few chapters of some fictional book *cough* Bible *cough* and pray to God, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, or Elvis, that they might get to sit un fluffy clouds when they die
Go Getta: Brazil has one of the highest mullato populations in the world, because Spanish Conquistadors , upon arriving in the New World, hadn't brough a whole lot of their women with them, so the only women around were the slave women they'd brought with them from Africa, and the Native women, most of whom had been wiped out along with the men.
The Mullato population in Brazil, who in the U.S. might be considered Black, treats full Blacks the same way Whites treated Blacks during apartheid & Jim Crow. Yet mullatoes in the U.S. align themselves with full Blacks against Whites
The difference? It is advantageos to mullatoes to malign Blacks in Brazil, but not in the U.S. It's all a matter of convenience, not morals