The Trouble with White People

[2bfabian]

To answer your thread we are the envy of the world,and everyone needs to blame us for their own problems. That's my finial answer.

 

[mf]

arabs, africans and asians also have a history of slave-ownership.

race doesn't preclude you from doing bad things. you can be a great person or a horrible person regardless of race.

 

[Bob]

arabs, africans and asians also have a history of slave-ownership.

race doesn't preclude you from doing bad things. you can be a great person or a horrible person regardless of race.

And you can be educated, with a litany of life experience and be wrong.

 

[Hop]

Ah, so you're pointing out that drunk rednecks are an especially evil brand of White folks?

the soiree must have been the evil end of the world...:clap_1:

 

[Miss Kitty]

OMG...I smell like a wet chicken!!!!! I wish I had some fried chicken right now. Does that make me a racist?

 

[Kimmifunn]

OMG...I smell like a wet chicken!!!!! I wish I had some fried chicken right now. Does that make me a racist?

Wash it down with Kool-aid, maybe.

 

[Teresa]

To answer your thread we are the envy of the world,and everyone needs to blame us for their own problems. That's my finial answer.

envy may not be the appropriate term you are looking for. :roll:

30gAy - what is the meaning of this thread? you're trying to start some sheeit.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I think he is trying to demonstrate by having us white folk look in the mirror, as we lump people together in groups based on race, sexuality, etc, while blaming the entire group for individual's actions. ;-) Of course some people posting in here refuse to participate, and they begin to defend the white people. Maybe they, too, will learn from this.

 

[Beach Runner]

I think he is trying to demonstrate by having us white folk look in the mirror, as we lump people together in groups based on race, sexuality, etc, while blaming the entire group for individual's actions. ;-) Of course some people posting in here refuse to participate, and they begin to defend the white people. Maybe they, too, will learn from this.

I agree.

That being said, despite the fact that there are both good and bad white, black, and yellow people, there are cultural effects independent of skin color that contribute to huge differences between the races.

This was never more clear to me than when we had the experience of being MIT parents. Most Asian students' parents had dedicated their lives getting their children into MIT. One couple that we met from Hong Kong had sent their child to a tony prep school in Boston in the seventh grade to secure him a place at MIT, even if that meant that they lost the joy of the presence of their child. There were very few blacks at MIT that weren't Kenyans, and Caucasians were in the distinct minority. My husband and I joked about a "Minority Parents Dinner" at orientation. We almost went because we were definitely the minority -- there were very few Caucasian parents.

 

[Mermaid]

OMG...I smell like a wet chicken!!!!! I wish I had some fried chicken right now. Does that make me a racist?

Were you sending fried chicken vibes to Indiana tonight? Was that you? Philippa and I were in the car discussing whether we wanted to pick up some fried chicken for dinner after our pedicures. We never have fried chicken! It must have been ESP coming from the Kitty.