Quote Originally Posted by The Redneck
If you base what you do around your appearance, then probably embody a more pure form of racism than anyone ever on the planet.
Very well-put.

One of the things that just drives me nuts is the growing idea in many inner-cities that for a black person to succeed, to study hard, and to work hard, is "acting white". If someone told me, as a white person, that I'm not really white because I don't spend every night drunk, have physical relations with my sister, or join lynch mobs, then while I probably still wouldn't knock that person down I'd certainly have the urge to. So why do people put up with it when self-appointed spokesmen claim that a black person who makes the effort to succeed in life is not truly black--that he or she is an "Uncle Tom/Aunt Jemima", a "sellout", or an "oreo"?

What these people refuse to understand is that when black racists claim that the "ghetto experience"--crime, poverty, illegitimacy, and general Dark Ages-style misery--is the essence of being black and white people will never understand this; their statements dovetail perfectly with those of white racists who say the same thing--that crime, poverty, illegitimacy, and general Dark Ages-style misery is the essence of being black.

There is indeed still racism in America, and there are indeed still racists in America. There are white people who hate black people, and there are black people who hate white people. There are places where a black person just doesn't go to if he wants to come out without being shot or hung, and there are places where a white person just doesn't go if he intends to make it out in one piece. It's sad--in fact, it sucks--but people will be jerks (to put it lightly, but there are, after all, rules against foul language on these forums), and no law will stop people from being jerks.

All the same, race relations have come a long way in America. Black people generally like white people better than they ever have; white people generally like black people better than we ever have, and the two groups are mixing more often in everything from business to sports to entertainment to marriage.
Beuatifully well said, this is why i still even read your posts.