Quote: (03-25-2012 09:00 PM)sylo Wrote:
It is interesting to watch the response from the black students posted up after the incident. When a black person 'messes up' so to speak, taking this chick for instance, black people take it personally. Every African American stated that it made blacks look bad. Something I just noticed, and find very interesting, is that as a white person, I dont have the same perspective. Take, for example, Bernie Madoff. This man ruined the lives of hundreds of people. Yet not once did I think he made white people look bad. Maybe it is due to blacks having a more sensitive view of race in the first place? Anyone with any insight on this? I would love to hear any thoughts from fellow black members.
Yo Sylo
The reason why black people say that isn't because we're sensitive little bitches, it's because unfortunately blacks rarely get judged as individuals in this country. For a lot of people, this spectacle here will be the most interaction they ever have with a black person, and as you can see it's not positive. How do you think something like this affects a persons judgement about black people? A person who doesn't interact with blacks at all or watch the very few black programs that are positive? Probably won't wanna have them over for dinner lol. And this is a reality that a lot of black dudes are aware of that white dudes aren't, and it frustrates the fuck out of professional brothers who aren't like that to get lumped into the same category. Conversely, blacks see many sides of white people through movies, TV and actual interaction. When we see crazy ass white people, we can access our memory banks and know that this is a crazy white individual, not a crazy white race.
One more thing to add, there's also nothing wrong with her showing passion in an argument. But there's a time and a place.
Anyway just my 2 cents