Comments on: Chapter 17 – Page 17

By: CaptEndo

CaptEndo — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:10:41 +0000

Not so, that very statement is racism:) Racism isn’t determined by who’s in a position of relative power or privilege. It’s a function of viewing situations through a filter of perceived racial preferences. As a result, white males from the American South endure some of the most common racial prejudice in the modern world. It struck me as interesting when I observed it as a transplanted Yankee. And became quite personal when I first dated, then married a southern black woman. Very much disapproved of by much of her family, as well as some of the general population in this vicinity.

By: Steel

Steel — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:57:02 +0000

one thing when i see Naror’nj refer to his wife and daughter as ‘flower’ and ‘blossom’ i keep thinking that all he’s saying is “Flower Flower Tree Flower” (the traditional elven spoken word)

By: SotiCoto

SotiCoto — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:52:05 +0000

What people need to do is stay out of my business, out of my way, and just generally not antagonise me. Personally. Other than that, I don't give a toss. They can just do their stupid human things with their stupid human arguments and stupid human concerns. Homo sapiens my arse. More like Homo fatuus.

By: Hogan

Hogan — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:11:27 +0000

Respect to her mother for keeping her head calm and keeping those two off each others throat…

By: MichaelHaneline

MichaelHaneline — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:39:23 +0000

@ShadeTail
“No, you said it doesn’t hold us down in ANY way, and that is BS.”
Emphasis on the “any” the second time, because that was where I took issue. You keep making these blanket statements like you think it never happens period, mixed together with statements that says it does happen but apparently its okay because black people have it worse, and any white person who ever complains about it is an asshole.

I DO know what I’m talking about. I worked in a school this past school year where roughly 1/75 students is white, and those kids have to watch their back. When one of these kids get singled out and jumped when staff or campus police isn’t around, simply because he’s a “cracker”, don’t tell me that kid is an asshole when he sobs and cries and is emotionally fucked up and doesn’t think its fair that he’s being singled out because he’s white. Stop taking the individuality out of it.

I understand how bad black people have it in the United States, OKAY? I’m really NOT saying they don’t. My mentor and father figure growing up is a black man named Alfred Leon Johnson who grew up during the Jim Crow laws. He gotten beaten up as a child by a bunch of full GROWN white men for using the wrong BATHROOM. He joined the navy at 16 to get out of his neighborhood, put himself through college, got a masters degree, became a master of the martial arts, a public school teacher in the inner city, and a mentor to many young children, and it was huge struggle the whole damn way. He has been trying for the past 20 years to add racial harmony to the LAUSD curriculum, but people like you who think that is just a bunch of “feel-good mush” won’t have it. He’s not just experienced racism from whites, he’s seen it in the schools with just black and Hispanics students and how they turn on each other for the same reason: hate of people who you don’t understand, who you fear, who you’re jealous of, who you can’t relate to, or JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM YOU. It’s not just some fluffy bullshit, we REALLY DO ALL NEED TO LEARN TO UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT EACH OTHER, because otherwise we keep rationalizing our hate, and it keeps perpetuating, and it will NEVER, EVER FUCKING STOP.