Why can white people be called white, but black people have to be african american.

Shannon Alexander

Shannon Alexander

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Harrekin said:
Yeah cos the English historically never oppressed anyone ;)

One question,why are we "white" or "black" or "Asian"... Since when was humanity split into different races? I thought we were the human race?

Without meaning to get all un-PC tho, Black people do get butt-hurt too easily, most other "races" learnt to be able to laugh at themselves long ago.
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Some of my ancestors are the convicts that built australia... and some of them are the people that made them do it...

Am I supposed to be conflicted about that or some shit..? no... None of it happened to me or by me...
 
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eye exaggerate

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Shannon Alexander said:
Some of my ancestors are the convicts that built australia... and some of them are the people that made them do it...

Am I supposed to be conflicted about that or some shit..? no... None of it happened to me or by me...
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...I'd say it's still 'active' in your blood.

(swimming with the booze :) )
 
Shannon Alexander

Shannon Alexander

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It's a question tho of what is still active in my blood..? the oppressed or the oppressor..? am I the opressor or the oppressee..?
 
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eye exaggerate

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Shannon Alexander said:
It's a question tho of what is still active in my blood..? the oppressed or the oppressor..? am I the opressor or the oppressee..?
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...we inherit dispositions much the same way we inherit appearance, etc. Many speak of 'healing bloodlines'. It's a nifty jaunt into your family's history with that 'lens' on.

...and I'd guess that you're all 4 at some point or another.
 
bb419

bb419

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Black sounds good compared to colored or negro. If a white person from Africa moves here is he a African American?
 
sso

sso

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its no wonder you are so divided.

everyone that came to america brought a shitload of baggage with them.

everyone proudly holding on to the past

which basically means, that america never really existed.

there are no americans.

there are just european people that live in america, and asian, and african and whatnot.

if you go by that route of thinking, then america is just divided into territories of those continents.

and apparantly according to this movie i saw, native americans just called themselves human beings lol :)

so, no americans? lol


maybe this is part of the problem. probably is.
 
Harrekin

Harrekin

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sso said:
its no wonder you are so divided.

everyone that came to america brought a shitload of baggage with them.

everyone proudly holding on to the past

which basically means, that america never really existed.

there are no americans.

there are just european people that live in america, and asian, and african and whatnot.

if you go by that route of thinking, then america is just divided into territories of those continents.

and apparantly according to this movie i saw, native americans just called themselves human beings lol :)

so, no americans? lol


maybe this is part of the problem. probably is.
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In an idealised world then what you say could be true, but in the real world people love dividing themselves up.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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The pic is "fairly explanatory" to quote the man in Raising Arizona. Just remove the thin, chewy wrapper ... cn
 
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