Thread: What combination creates the most discriminated person?

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Many people like to ignore that racism still exists, and just want the black community to just "forget about it."

I think history should be remembered and used as a guide for the future, but I don't think it should be dwelled on and wallowed in constantly. It only keeps racism alive. Anything that divides people up based on race creates us versus them ways of thinking, taking away the true perception that every person is an individual. Situations of actual racism should be called out and handled, but any kind of talk against the entire white race, or any entire race, is illogical and breeds hate. So the history of black oppression should be remembered, and it should be recognized when it happens now, but it should be kept within logical confines.

Also, (I am not saying you did this.) I majorly resent it when I am at all blamed for slavery, Jim Crowe laws, forced segregation, lynching, cross burning, and so forth. I had absolutely zero to do with any of it, I have a severe problem with anybody who was or is responsible for it, and it sounds insane and very disrespectful when I am accused of it just because of my skin color. The oppression of black Americans does not need to be completely forgotten about, but there is a lot of letting go that needs to be done. The American slave owners are all dead, nobody who can read is a member of the KKK any more, and the vast majority of white Americans do not hate people based on skin color these days. Mainly, talk about the history of black oppression needs to be confined to where it applies. I am tired of hearing about slavery and so forth from people who think I somehow had something to do with it because my skin color somehow gives me a team status and I am responsible for the rest of the team. I am not a member of a white team. I just have white skin, which easily turns very dark when I spend time out in the sun. I had nothing to do with any of it, I am very glad the North won the Civil War and ended slavery, and I am very glad that the civil rights movement happened and was a success. Plus, I am part Irish, and there were Irish slaves. I am also part American Indian, and a whole lot of them got screwed really bad. So the idea that I am somehow a slave owner or a segregationist because of my race is absurd and very insulting. That idea is what needs to be forgotten. It was wrong in the first place.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

The difference between the concepts of a white person calling a black person a nigger and a black person calling a white person a cracker is that "nigger" is the equivalent of calling a person a worthless piece of shit. It is a word that carries with it connotations that you come from a line of thinking that promotes the hanging of blacks. That black people are, litterally, less than nothing. You can call someone a cock sucker, motherfucker, pansy, pussy, whatever, but none of those words carry with it the power that the word "nigger" does.

"Cracker", on the other hand, is labelling someone as a supremist - basically comparing them to the type of people that did the whip-cracking. You're calling them egotistical. You're calling them ethnocentric. You're calling them anti-semetic, but the word doesn't even come close to rivalling the word "nigger", in context.

That is a very good point. I never thought about it that way. However, what the two words have in common is that they both have a connotation of, "I hate your entire race." The word "cracker" is just like the word "kike" or "chink" in that way. It is a very racist word.