Doctor Langstrom
I want to be FEARED!
LOL, every race out there has good reasons for wanting to kill whiteys.
So, Doctor, because I didn't vote for Obama does that make me a "closet racist"?
Ok, just your previous comment on Obama being elected and "closet racists" coming out left me wondering.
Because you aren't comprehending what I'm saying. I've heard people make racist remarks about the President both times he was elected into office. People who haven't said anything that heinous ever before. And all of a sudden it comes out in waves just because now we have a black President. Disagree with the man's politics and policies all you want. But the minute the n-word and calling him a monkey is thrown into the mix, I lose all respect for the person. Even if that person happens to be a relative of mine.
Punching people because they piss you off is wrong. Both are adults, but if my 125 lb nephew punches my 240lb brother, my brother can laugh it off. But if my brother punches my nephew, the nephew might end up in the hospital. There is an imbalance in power. In this case, it's based on physical strength. But it could be economic strength or representation in government or vulnerability to institutional violence. The question is still the same, though. Do we need to spend equal amounts of time persuading these two of the dangers of punching? If all we want to do is moralize, sure. But if we are actually interested in reducing harm, we need to concentrate our efforts on the bigger guy, or the one with more power because he does more harm. This is rational.
I agree with your first sentence and see the overall point you are trying to make, but a 130 pound person that actually knows what they are doing, like a black belt in both Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Karate, can do far more damage than a 250 pound beefcake that never threw a punch in his life. So, if the 250 pound man throws a punch at the 130 pound man, he might be making a big mistake. The knowledgeable man almost never strikes first, because he has far less to fear in a situation he is familiar with. My point is, sometimes the ones with the power are also the ones with the greater knowledge, and we need to concentrate on the fringe elements, the ones without the knowledge, from taking those with knowledge from power.
My point is, sometimes the ones with the power are also the ones with the greater knowledge, and we need to concentrate on the fringe elements, the ones without the knowledge, from taking those with knowledge from power.
Now, perhaps if I go into the worst, most crime infested part of the 'hood', and I'm surrounded by <gasp> a bunch of angry residents referring to me in those terms, the word might take on a more threatening tone (because, yes, I admit, I'm still stupidly affected by this riacist and absurd idea perpetuated by the media that it's dangerous to be white in a black neighborhood). But if you're a black person in America (and in most of the western world), you are always in the white man's hood. Even when you're in your own, you're in his as well. And it is dangerous.
You do realize there are plenty of places, plenty of neighborhoods, that if I went to tomorrow I would probably be beatin up, and or killed for being white?
You do realize Zimmerman was a quack right? And that black people LIVE in my neighborhood right? Your right, I wouldn't want to be there, because I would probably be in danger. And your right, I wouldn't choose to go there either.
Zimmerman was hardly a one-off bizarre aberration in otherwise historically peaceful and lovie dovie white behavior.
Historically, you are correct, yet for this decade? Look at how long that was on the media for its racial charges by a white attacking a black person! Your saying this happens basically on a weekly basis then, why isn't the media constantly showing this to us? I mean, this one idiot, Zimmerman, does do something really stupid, and the media have a field day, the way you talk Black people everywhere are being shot at by Zimmermans.