Racism is getting sadder and sadder

[Phoenix Dark]

Before I entered the library a few minutes ago I decided to pick up a newspaper from off of a bench and check out the headlines. There was a Mexican dude on the bench sleeping, and I figured hey what the hell he's not using the paper anyway. As I'm reading this dude comes up behind me and picks up an empty Coke bottle off the floor, like within a foot of the bench, and throws it away. I was feeling like a dumbass for not picking it up first so I started a convo

Me: I should have picked that up.
Dude: Oh no problem
Me: Usually this is a pretty nice campus, not a lot of debris or anything
Dude: Yea, not a lot of debris. I just don't like trash...

Then he nods at the Mexican dude sleeping on the bench, then looks at me as if expecting me to co-sign his comment. My eyes went wide then I began reading the paper again

Dude: Oh come on, I know for a fact those people are effecting your community even more than mine. Jobs. Crime.
Me: Eh, stereotypes don't get us anywhere
Dude: Ha, you know I'm right

Then he walked away. Oh well, at least the Mexican dude didn't hear any of that 

[Junpei the Tracer!]

Co-sign distinguished black fellow

Wtf at the censor!?

[AdmiralViscen]

[Positive Touch]

"not a lot of debris?"  what kind of pick-up line is that?

[Van Cruncheon]

fake

[Eric P]

"affecting"

[Phoenix Dark]

I always get them mixed up. At least I have there/their/they're on lock

[cool breeze]

Totally agree.  I mean, just look at this:



So now the white man can win in a boxing match?
 

[demi]

Pretty much fake

[laesperanzapaz]

in fifty years, they're be more hispanics than whites.  or rather, more colored people than racist whites.

there is one good thing to look forward to.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

you didn't mention the dude's ethnicity.

this is very important.

[Great Rumbler]

At least he picked up the trash and threw it away UNLIKE YOU. smh

[chronovore]

Before I moved to Japan, I assumed (don't laugh!) that racism was a uniquely American problem. Since then, I've been stunned at some of the pigheadedness I've seen here.

That's not counting reverse-racism, where everyone assumes I'm cool because I'm a cracker. That part, um, doesn't really bother me as much.

[Cormacaroni]

Before I moved to Japan, I assumed (don't laugh!) that racism was a uniquely American problem. Since then, I've been stunned at some of the pigheadedness I've seen here.

....you weren't aware that other countries existed, and that in most of these other countries, there were multiple ethnicities, and that numerous wars and atrocities had occurred over many centuries?

coddamn son you a cracker. but you're cool. (not because you're a cracker, as well as being a cracker)

[Reb]

It's too uneventful to be made up. 

[Beardo]

Did you and the dude wink at each other or high five? Your stories suck.

[duckman2000]

Before I moved to Japan, I assumed (don't laugh!) that racism was a uniquely American problem. Since then, I've been stunned at some of the pigheadedness I've seen here.

Racism in the US seems different, though. Well, I don't know about Japan. But it's different from racism in most other nations I've lived in, in that it's basically an old, habitual racism, almost a cultural foundation. And there are rarely mass confrontations sparked by blitz racism, like you'd see elsewhere when the "native" population begins to feel pressured by a large stream of foreign culture, with bits that may not mesh well with the existing cultures. I very nearly joined the fascist side of the fence after living in an area with 90% 1st or 2nd generation immigrants and refugees. I got fed up of pretending to respect people who apparently had no respect for their hosts, and considered it totally alright to attack me and others simply because we were supposedly privileged natives.

But by American standards, that wasn't even racism. I had no deep dislike of Iranians or Somalis, it was just a matter of being fed up of the situation that shitty integration had caused. I was also sick of us having to change to appease the trends; one year, celebration of Flag Day was suspended in some schools, including mine, in order to not promote too much nationalism. Brilliant idea right there, concede national pride to the neo-nazis.

[Tauntaun]

duckman you should've let them know that if they don't like it, they can just GIT OUT!

[duckman2000]

duckman you should've let them know that if they don't like it, they can just GIT OUT!

Well, that was the best thing. Everywhere in the neighborhood where I lived there were small blurbs on the walls about how much our nation sucked. And these motherfuckers were living in state-funded apartments, with everything paid for them. Me, I had to pay for myself, yet somehow I was the privileged one. That's enough to drive an already angry young man into culture-specific violence, but luckily I realized that for as dumb as those idiots were, they were no match for the massive intellectual black hole that was at the center of the neo-nazi movement. But I'd be damned if I was going to fight for these ungrateful motherfuckers.

[Mandark]

A couple months after 9/11, waiting for a Greyhound, a young white guy pointed to a dark skinned man with a turban (I think a Sikh, but I wouldn't bet money) and said to me and a couple other nearby honkeys "we should kick his Iraqi ass back to Egypt."

I'm proud to say we all did our bit for tolerance by giving him a funny look then turning away.  He didn't say anything after that.

[demi]

A couple months after 9/11, waiting for a Greyhound, a young white guy pointed to a dark skinned man with a turban (I think a Sikh, but I wouldn't bet money) and said to me and a couple other nearby honkeys "we should kick his Iraqi ass back to Egypt."

I'm proud to say we all did our bit for tolerance by giving him a funny look then turning away.  He didn't say anything after that.

I bet you still agreed with him. Fuckin racist.

[Flannel Boy]

Weak argument if THIS Mexican was indeed affecting your community by:
1. "Stealing" a job.
2. Stealing
He wouldn't be sleeping on a fucking bench.

/end

Millions of poorly educated immigrants--legal and illegal--can negatively affect communities in more than one way: those who find work, by depressing wages; those who don't, by becoming homeless, sleeping on benches, and even resorting to crime.

[BamYouHaveAids]

It really is. People still treat decent black men like they were wops, spics, or kikes. Racism is really disgusting. I hope we can move past it one day.

[BlackMage]

I love Racism.

[Joe Molotov]

Before I moved to Japan, I assumed (don't laugh!) that racism was a uniquely American problem. Since then, I've been stunned at some of the pigheadedness I've seen here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

One of my old roommates was black and had a white girlfriend (now fiancee).  So we'd often go out to do various things.  Most people just didn't give a fuck but there was always at least a small handful of people that had a problem with a black man dating a white woman.

The most obvious case was when we were walking to a store.  Some guy saw the two of them, went back to his car, and made sure his door was locked.  We knew what he was doing.  An middle aged woman who met my friend and his girlfriend told me a day after meeting them, "Why can't he just find a nice black girl instead?"  My response was "Uh, what?"

It is interesting about all the racists that come out of the wood work when there is a non-white man dating a white woman.  It is the true barometer of racism.  A white guy dating a non-white girl doesn't create as much controversy amongst the racists.

[laesperanzapaz]

A couple months after 9/11, waiting for a Greyhound, a young white guy pointed to a dark skinned man with a turban (I think a Sikh, but I wouldn't bet money) and said to me and a couple other nearby honkeys "we should kick his Iraqi ass back to Egypt."

I'm proud to say we all did our bit for tolerance by giving him a funny look then turning away.  He didn't say anything after that.

i think i learned alot about americans right after 9-11.  those were surreal times

[Phoenix Dark]

Before I moved to Japan, I assumed (don't laugh!) that racism was a uniquely American problem. Since then, I've been stunned at some of the pigheadedness I've seen here.

That's not counting reverse-racism, where everyone assumes I'm cool because I'm a cracker. That part, um, doesn't really bother me as much.

Give me a fucking break

[chronovore]

Well, yeah, I knew about the holocaust in Europe, but WW II has an almost mythical treatment in the USA -- the last "good" war -- and the genocides in Africa didn't get much news coverage in the USA. On the other hand, I had a lot of immediate examples of racism while growing up in Los Angeles, and it was inconceivable to me that there'd be a scenario with Asians hating on other Asians.

Give me a fucking break

Well, at least you didn't laugh.

[Van Cruncheon]

because pd is a chronic liar (and masturbator)

[demi]

And black

[Reb]

pd = PhoenixDark = Thanks But No Thanks = The guy with the constant changing name who makes mundane shit up.

[demi]

because pd is a chronic liar (and masturbator)

who the hell is pd? ugh someone please create an evilbore wiki so i can understand this inside-stuff!

Phoenix Dark on GAF. He has some sort of black guilt or something.

[demi]

thank you, i was really close to correcting you guys with "it's called DP"

[Phoenix Dark]

because pd is a chronic liar (and masturbator)

not giving a black man a chance to tell his story? racist 

[BlackMage]

Michigan blacks give the rest of the black people in America a bad name.

[demi]

Michigan is a ruined state, anyway. Glad I don't, or ever will, have to live there.