Are you a racist?
@amadeo (111938)
United States
January 14, 2018 3:31pm CST
Good afternoon
I have a question are you a racist?
Most people are very uncomfortable with talking about race.
I think people have been given permission to not even want to know about the difference or change their opinions about people.
I for one do not like to talk about this.Makes me very uncomfortable.Not sure why.but after hearing this remark from our President.Make me thinking.
with MLK day tomorrow many will talk or I think about this.
below is from online.Many of you have heard this.
This been all over in the papers and online.
__the statement below online from a reporter.________________________________________________________________
“Mr. President, Are You a Racist?” Is the Question Reporters Should Never Stop Asking Donald Trump
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42 responses
@FourWalls (68902)
• United States
15 Jan 18
Yes, I’m a racist. I believe there’s only one race, the human race.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
15 Jan 18
I'd like to say that I'm not but I know that I do and say things, unintentional of course, that may come off as racists.
Tonald Drump though is racist. I believe that as a fact.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
15 Jan 18
@allen0187 I doubt it .Not going to happen.They are afraid of him.Not sure why.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
14 Jan 18
I am not either even though I have been discriminated over here its like water off a duck´s back now and at the start it did hurt a bit and left me bewildered as to why anyone would want to be that way.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Jan 18
@amadeo
Thank you too Fredo I feel like I have to say that every so often but without the hurt that there was.
Even if I go back home there is a kind of envy they have that you are over there and you have lived in Spain and I say to them well its not easy to live there you know not on a daily basis its different when you come here on a holiday.
So I have seen both sides of the coin as well as a good many other girls that live here.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
15 Jan 18
@lovingangelsinstead21 thank you for sharing this.
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@thedevilinme (4152)
• Northampton, England
15 Jan 18
Everybody makes a decision around skin color at some point their lives
@WorDazza (15830)
• Manchester, England
15 Jan 18
I think that it's difficult to have a sensible discussion on race, immigration etc. as too many people just try to shut the debate down by screaming 'racist' at people they don't agree with.
Most racism is borne of ignorance in my opinion. My parents generation were pretty racist but we lived in an area of the UK where there were very few black and Asian people. My parents were not racist as such but were very suspicious of anyone who didn't have a white face. As they came into contact with more black and asian people they slowly began to realise that there was nothing to be suspicious of.
The final shreds of suspicion were probably blown away when I married a half British, half Bangladeshi girl.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
14 Jan 18
I was born in Texas when it was still illegal for black kids to go to school with whites, when black patrons had to sit in the back of buses, when they had to sit in the balcony at the movies, when they had to go to back door at restaurants to order. My mother, born in 1899 and my three older sisters, born in the 1920s, were racists, but I outgrew that unreasoning prejudice at a pretty early age and I am glad of it.
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@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
15 Jan 18
My mother would have been of the era of your sisters @JamesHxstatic and my grandparents would have contemporary with your parents. I heard racist remarks against many nationalities at my grandparents. My mother outgrew most of it and moved away from there. Funny thing, we often think of black to white prejudice, but there in Oklahoma there was also prejudice against "Indians" (native Americans), Italians, Polish, Germans, Mexicans, you name it.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
15 Jan 18
@JamesHxstatic yes those things happens in the early days.thank you
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@Shiva49 (26765)
• Singapore
15 Jan 18
@JamesHxstatic, that says it all, insightful - siva
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@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
15 Jan 18
I believe that everyone has some racial prejudice. It is what they do with it and about it that matters. I think we all need to have our eyes opened to the beauty of different races and the talents and skills of all people. I have at least eight different races in my background, two of them are native American tribes, four of them are from the British Isles and others are western European. I would love to do the genetic testing to see what else is hidden there. I have heard that in addition to what I know there may be some Jewish heritage and some French, but do not know that for sure. There is really only one race, the human race.
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@averygirl72 (37845)
• Philippines
15 Jan 18
I think I am. There are race that I feel inferior and race that I feel superior but I like the diversity. I do respect all race but I prefer a race more over the other
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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15 Jan 18
Never intentionally. I don't think anyone can declare that they have never said or done something that can be construed as racist, whether it be due to colour, religion, race or country of origin. And that goes for anybody, regardless; racism isnt purely the domain of white people.
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@JudyEv (341752)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Jan 18
I associate with quite a small group of people I guess and racism is seen or spoken off much but we visited a friend from years back recently and he made a very racist remark. I was quite shocked. I doubt we'll ever get rid of racism.
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@snowy22315 (181987)
• United States
15 Jan 18
I seriously don't think anyone is going to admit to being racist on a public forum like this. They would immediately be villified. I think that we should try to be aware of any prejudices we might have.
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@vandana7 (100540)
• India
15 Jan 18
I feel people are racists. They suppress the feelings because law expects them to. But if and when things sour, their true natures can surface. A known devil is always better than unknown devil. So it is better to acknowledge existence of such feelings than to brush them under the carpet because that is "human" or other lofty motive. Eyes let people perceive the difference. As long as that happens, people would know the difference. They can be cultured as long as there is no potential problem.
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@vandana7 (100540)
• India
15 Jan 18
@topffer You have a valid point. But if I was to teach a class, I would let them know the differences in their races, religions, and what so ever, and from there let them experience goodness in each other so that they themselves came to accept that we are a human race, all those factors do not matter. When others tell us, we tend to question and defy. But when we experience something good, it becomes hard to lie to ourselves.
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@vandana7 (100540)
• India
16 Jan 18
@topffer Yes, social integration does not all ways work. And the way our constitution is, there is more room to hate because people have home environment where the prejudices are reinforced with cement and mortar. lol. Arranged marriages are another reason for those differences you know. There is always this girl is not beautiful, that guy is ugly concept. Those talks do not go even if both husband and wife are educated professionals because that is the way things are. The differences of color caste creed religion are deliberately kept alive to hike up dowries of those with darker shades and not really good features or those from other castes have customs that are weird, or those from other religion are murderers or fanatics. Likewise, dowries of those who are beautiful would be lower. So the difference needs to be maintained for this purpose you see. lol. It is at school levels only we can make people kill those differences and realize that beautiful person is not necessarily intelligent, and could be vain. lol. Likewise, a person with not so good features or dark colors may actually understand you better because he or she has been through some or their folks have been through some so they are taught to be patient and bear it out. Just that children are better equipped to ignore such things because they do not understand the ultimate "dowry" motive. Once the differences are removed and stay removed for over 10 odd years of schooling, then it is difficult to gain them back because of possible conflict. At least, that is what I have theory about.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
15 Jan 18
I think that it is mainly a matter of early education. The most xenophobic people I met here were living in the countryside where they hardly see a stranger every month, while people raised in cities have crossed children from other cultures since the kindergarten and are quite never racist/xenophobic. This said, racists are rare in my country, which has always welcomed immigrants.
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@stapllotik (1933)
• India
15 Jan 18
Just think of this. The colour of our blood is red. There are primarily 4 or 5 blood groups in this world. Imagine, If a high cast person or a racist meet with an accident and requires urgent blood. Upon treatment would they still ask to the doctor or blood bank ,"what is the caste or race of this blood, which has injected in me?
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@stapllotik (1933)
• India
16 Jan 18
@amadeo also we should understand why the person becomes racist ? What are the reason that led a person to hate other person. There can be many ? Is there a law in your country which oppose racism ?
@thedevilinme (4152)
• Northampton, England
15 Jan 18
we are all racist in some way, however subtle.
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@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
15 Jan 18
I agree with you on this, but go on to say that if we admit it we are better off than denying it. We can move beyond our prejudices and take advantage of what other cultures have to offer.We can be better by thinking and acting in a better way.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
15 Jan 18
@thedevilinme yes that is true there.I am sure many do make the remark.
