ericajoy

Racism in America: A chat I had on 9/27/07

• He-Man: haha no I just remembered, they say the exact opposite to my face
• He-Man: waiting for the race war to break out
• me: lol
• me: if obama gets elected, it will surely come
• He-Man: haha no it won't
• me: you undermine the power of the redneck
• He-Man: I think that'll be the last stroke against those idiots waiting for it, they won't have any firepower left
• me: those alabama boys will want to secede
• He-Man: there are actually a lot of intelligent people in the south contrary to popular belief
• He-Man: I think the idiots are becoming a minority
• me: no
• me: they jus don't come out as often
• He-Man: and it really hasn't been socially acceptable for white people to be racist for nearly a full generation, not to say those attitudes don't exist but they're changing
• me: !!!
• me: no
• me: sorry
• me: :)
• me: they are changing on the surface
• He-Man: you don't think so?
• me: s/think/know
• He-Man: it's not just surface
• me: when 12 year old children feel fine throwing nigger out as an insult
• He-Man: how people act on the surface becomes how they think after awhile
• [...]
• He-Man: yeah but the thing is I think whites are becoming much better, and a lot of the shit that white people get is for being ignorant rather than actually racist
• He-Man: they just really don't know any better in a lot of cases, the flyover states people don't grow up knowing anything about other races because they never encounter them
• me: yes
• me: and then they get all educated
• me: but hey, whats wrong with calling you colored?
• He-Man: they don't know though
• He-Man: you can't be angry at that, they don't mean it maliciously
• He-Man: they think it's ok because it's all they know
• He-Man: if you told them it was bad they'd stop
• me: ah
• me: but no
• me: unfortunately thats untrue
• me: like those little twins that sing about white power
• He-Man: you're using extreme example, I'm talking about ordinary people
• me: im talking ordinary people too
• me: you can't change learned behavior