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Originally Posted by fatso
I agree with your post, but that's hardly a forgotten fact. In fact, I think it's brought up pretty frequently. It doesn't take too long for a claim of racism (white on minority) to be counter with "ya, but white people are victims of racism too!".
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Not really. In a hysterical moment like this, generally it is a forgotten fact.
Although I'm a pretty unlikely suspect to say this, I've been the "victim" of direct black on white racism twice . . . . once in Nassau, Bahamas and the other outside the main metro station in Atlanta.
I use parentheses for "victim" because, in both cases, I found the unprovoked nature of the behind-my-back verbal punches - and the context - to be pretty funny to tell you the truth.
Quite literally, in both cases, I was walking down a street and looking at no one in particular, mindlessly going from point A to B then wham, where the hell did that come from?
"White frakker " in one case was the mutter from an old man sitting in the corner of a storefront and "big white man with his cadillac thinks he owns the place" (I was walking on a pedestrian-only street in shorts and a plain white t-shirt. I wasn't exactly oozing prosperity) were the gist of the things directed my way.
Straight up obvious incidents. As I said, given the context, I actually thought both were pretty funny given their sheer idiocy. . . . but others might have reacted differently.
It happens.
Yes, blacks can be racists as well. Believe it.
Iowa Flames Fan offered a prediction of how this will end . . . . . well, I am not surprised blacks are mindlessly crowding around Gates while whites seem to have a genuine debate, with some for and against. I also can't wait for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to show up, guns blazing.
In fact, every time something like this comes up, the resulting debate looks like the OJ Simpson trial again where blacks were overwhelmingly in favour of his innocence while whites had more of a split.
You know, I get the historical persecution thing and the lingering bitterness that comes with it but holy moly, some things just don't look good.
Cowperson