What if "racism" or anyone that hold such veiwpoints actulay has a right to express there oponion?
In the Skokie Marches were Neo-Nazis petitioned to march down the then predomitaly Jewish Streets of Skokie IL the ACLU took there side and so did the courts. You have the right to hold any opnion no matter how ridculas the majority may think it is.
As for as racisim there are those who belive that Israel should be exclusily jewish and they are called Zionist while there Arab Neighboors call them racist....
Here in America people who are similer to live next to people of like ethnic and class backgrounds.
Is it reverse racism to have blacks get upset when white upper class gay men start buying houses and then fixing them up and forcing rent and property values up and thus disintrgrating the working black low income community? Seen it happen in Chicago,New York and now Detroit...
Everyone has ethnic pride as we are a nation of imagrants....However we have free speech and should feel free to critize other ethnic groups culture and behavoir that threatens ours....Like for instance the high hispanic birthrate which is unsustanible at present levals. Where do already depressed citys that have growing hispanic populations get money to expand schools? Who has the balls in public to say to the hispanic commnity that smaller familys is why causcasion and asians are more ecomicaly successfull? In reverse the conversation goes as to why arent white owned buisneses investing in the inner city?
America is not a colorless society and its bullshit to say that the way you act and think and what color you are does not matter. Each ethnic group is unique and brings its own flavor to the table and its own pschohistory with its own problems. To be a member of one ethnic group and complain about the behavoir of another that is causing conflict is a nessary part of workiong things out.
In Baltimore it has been a long standing complaint about black youths hanging out in fromt of stores and on corners making whites feel uncomfortible about shoping in such stores. When the city tried to address this via law enforcement all hell threatened to break loose. The reply that it was a long standing tradition to hold down certain street corners and that it was passed from father to son.
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/cente...th-violence/field_reports/growingupbmore.html Johns Hopkins was awarded a grant to look into the issue and then educated the white community about what the culture was about and thus reducing fear. The black community also became aware of the problem thru the church worked out more alternitives for socialising then just hanging out on street corners.....
What I am saying is when someone makes what is percived as a racist statement you have to ask from what and where is that person coming from? Its been only 45 years from the race riots in the inner citys that forced whites to the burbs and kept blacks in there own guettos of semi-perminate poverty....People remember the gangs and the gurriral warfare that went between blacks,whites and Porto Ricans that terrorized each other in places like the Bronx and South Chicago and East Cleveland. Its hard to forgive what happened or who was respsible. But not talking is not the answer.
