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Readers sound off on what blacks can do, whites can't
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| November 13, 2005
| MARY MITCHELL SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
Posted on 11/12/2005 3:45:48 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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Ms. Mitchell does it again and then, unwittingly, provides some insight into the so-called "slave mentality."
To: Chi-townChief
A ton of it has to do with how a person speaks. I've heard black people speak exactly the way I speak, and I've heard white people speak the way I normally associate with ghetto black. Guess which one I think I have more in common with? The one who speaks the way I do.
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posted on
11/12/2005 3:49:59 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: Chi-townChief
"I want you to come to this campus and sit in our library so a white student can look at you, confused and ask if you are a part of the janitorial staff," he said. "I want you to come to this campus so a white student can introduce himself to the white person standing next to you with a handshake and then address you with 'wassup my sista, how you livin.' "Does this stuff really happen? My BS-o-meter is pegging. If it needs calibrating, let me know.
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posted on
11/12/2005 3:54:36 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: yldstrk
A ton of it has to do with how a person speaks. I'm in an interracial relationship, my step daughters, who are black have to deal with things like "why do you act so white?" and "why do you talk white?" just because they are not following the stereotype for teenaged black girls.
...but I guess I'm being racial for pointing this out according to the article.
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posted on
11/12/2005 3:59:07 PM PST
by
infidel29
("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
To: mhking
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:01:23 PM PST
by
infidel29
("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
To: Chi-townChief
"Still, it's not up to white people to change those images. That's on us."
Then, get busy or get left behind in this world. And that's my advice from the whitebread, farming Heartland of America who are sometimes stereotyped as "hayseed hicks."
We produce your food, Ms. Mitchell. In your next enlightening column, make sure you don't curse us with your mouth full. ;)
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:01:42 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: L98Fiero
It sounds like the res. If you want to see the utter failure of socialism, visit any res. My father instilled into me self reliance and high values. I wish more NA would get off the res mentality. Such despair. most kids on the res do not have a father. And worse an increasing number of young men on the res talk in that gansta language
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:02:27 PM PST
by
sachem longrifle
(Proud member of the Fond Du Lac band of the Chippewa people)
To: L98Fiero
Does this stuff really happen? My BS-o-meter is pegging. If it needs calibrating, let me know.
Yup - sadly it does
So do people coming up to female MD's and assume they're the nurse
They see a hispanic and asssume they are an illegal immigrant
pattern recognition assumption errors are everywhere.
My friends of the more pigmented persuasion assure me that these
social assumptions can be an everyday part of their life
To: HangnJudge
Wow. According to legend, us Southerners were supposed to be bad but I have never seen anything like that in my 37 years.
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:15:09 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: L98Fiero
My BS meter spat sparks and blew up after that one. It's stereotypical nonsense, and I GUARANTEE it never happened.
Each generation of journalists just keeps getting dumber and falling back on idiotic stereotypes of the way they THINK the world is.
Morons.
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:18:56 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(Non-Y2K-Compliant)
To: L98Fiero; HangnJudge
This is probably not the place for humor but, with your permission, this brings to mind an old Star Trek: NG scene:
Goss: "I am Daimon Goss. And these are my counsels Kole and Doctor Arridor. We'll need chairs."
Picard: "I'm Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I am serving as host for these proceedings."
Goss: "Good. Then see to it we get some chairs."
Picard: "Let me explain."
Goss: "Fine, fine. Just have your Klingon servant get us some chairs."
Worf: "I am in charge of security."
Goss: "Then who gets the chairs?"
To: Chi-townChief
Frankly, although there will be obvious differences simply because there are differences, the media contributes, as Ms. Mitchell so "eloquently" demonstrated, to the perpetuation of racial bias. They in the media are very selective when describing groups of people, and divisive in the way in which they manipulate a "story".
If there's a crime against blacks by a white person, they'll mention race. But if it is the other way around, race isn't mentioned.
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:22:54 PM PST
by
This Just In
("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
To: L98Fiero
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:26:32 PM PST
by
Ajnin
(I)
To: Chi-townChief
Thats the very reason white flight will continue. Many whites figure there is nothing they can do to change the way things are in some areas of the country so they just move to areas that are almost all white. Everyone wants their family to live in a safe enviroment. Life is short.
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:31:50 PM PST
by
kempo
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To: L98Fiero
The Great and Wonderful Rush Limbaugh once opined that each person is limited by their own experiences and knowledge and subsequently all human thought and awareness is tainted with Bias and Perspective
That we must always be fair to another's perspective
but that there is no obligation to agree
Unless you have a God's eye perspective (all knowledge/wisdom/vision)
How you see things is unalterably warped by your direction of gaze
My black / hispanic / japanese friends frequently have a different direction of gaze
This does not change right and wrong
Truth, once known, is not a matter of argument
The best way for an American white person to learn a different perspective
is to spend a prolonged period of time in a non-white country
or to immerse themself in another culture
sadly, this requires time, energy, and a will to take risks
Those who do it well, interestingly, often have been in the military
To: This Just In; Howlin
>>>"If there's a crime against blacks by a white person, they'll mention race. But if it is the other way around, race isn't mentioned."<<<
Pointing out the obvious gets you dangerously close to be painted as a racist, tread lightly, FR folks seem to be very gun shy and will jump you just as fast as the folks at DU.
Been there done that, without even trying and without a racist bone in my body. If I were ever to post a family portrait a bunch of quick posting race baiting coward folks will owe me an apology, a couple of them are even here on FR, I expect 0 apologies from DU but here and over at Malkins site there are a few that know they were out of line. I'm still waiting and all the while I predicted with 100% accuracy the aftermath of Katrina and exactly how the local and State Govt would react and just exactly how much "help" you could expect from the folks in the 9th ward, which remains ZERO, since then Brother Farakan and his ilk have weighed in, but I'm considered the racist. (Right Howlin?)
TT
To: Chi-townChief
...Barack Obama's brilliant memoir...Stop, you're killing me.
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:38:08 PM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Chi-townChief
Ms Mitchell, you are a credit to our name.
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posted on
11/12/2005 4:41:17 PM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Global worming could have saved New Orleans if enacted before the worms ate the levees.)
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