Originally posted by: classy
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Here's what I said about this over in the thread in the Politics & News Forum....
When I was in college the African American Student Association held a Miss Black University Pageant. I tried to enter my GF, a white girl, in the pageant and a damn riot broke out. They wouldn't let her sign up and got damn nasty about it. At that point I decided to organize a Miss White University Pageant but the school refused to allow it....even though they were sanctioning and financially supporting the Miss Black Pageant. Fair? I think not.
Whatever race only events are all ridiculous and racist....funny though how things like Miss Black Pageants are allowed to continue but Miss White ones are immediately labeled as racist and insensitive. Until we get past all the bullsh1t White/Black/Hispanic/Asian/Whatever garbage we will never be an equal society. So your ancestors came from Africa, Asia, Europe, wherever....big f?ing whoop. You're an American. A M E R I C A N. AMERICAN! No freaking hyphens, no descriptive colors...just AMERICAN.
This is the mentality here I don't understand. Sometimes I think some of you guys never go outside, turn on a tv, or read a newspaper. Why are there black colleges, black pagents, black tv channels, another one besides BET is about to emerge, black awards for entertainers? Why do these things exist? The truth is blacks are not judged equally, even today. And all the experiences of every AT member rolled into one doesn't tell the truth. I read things here about how racially violent blacks are. The truth is whites commit more racially motivated crimes then all other races rolled together. And oh yea I know it never gets reported as a racial crime when minorities do it, ok
. Despite all the moaning I read here, the corporate world is as white as ever. Think about this Denzel Washington who is one the great actors to come down the pike finally won an Oscar when he portrayed a typical stereotype of a "dirty black cop". Halle Berry won hers as she played a booty call for a white dude. Despite the fact these actors have starred in roles before that should have won them accoclades among their white couterparts before these pretty low roles. There were a couple of black actresses who turned down Halle's role because they thought it degraded black women. Look at sports. Blacks dominate sports, plain and simple. They make more money for people then all the other groups combined together. But yet we have problems getting management jobs and coaching jobs. Despite the many many losers who are white in the front offices. Quite frankly we live in a dominated white world. Blacks and other races deserve to recieve recognition just as much as whites. And if whites won't recognize equally other races then those races should and do recognize their own without being criticized. Why should we be shunned recognition because your people group for whatever reason think we don't deserve it? Some of you need to grow up or just come out of the closet all together.
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