Comments on: Chapter 17 – Page 17

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.

By: Aydr

Aydr — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:02:14 +0000

Comic tags.

By: Aydr

Aydr — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:01:01 +0000

ShadeTail, you’re right. It’s totally imbalanced. The system has serious problems with racial equity. But as a white person who went to school in a predominately black neighborhood, I can tell you that stuff that you said doesn’t happen? Happens. Not a ton, but it does (and nonviolent racism, yeah, that does happen a ton. It’s anything but rare). There’s plenty of racism against white people out there, it’s just that as caucasians we benefit from all the perks of white privilege, so as you said, by and large, it is no big deal for us. Dunno how you expect it to be fixed other than “complaining about it”, though… You want to give me a more effective method for trying to end racism other than open and honest discussion about race relations? Recognizing racial privilege is damn important but I don’t see how people will understand it if they aren’t able to discuss what they think is right and what isn’t.

By: ShadeTail

ShadeTail — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:48:02 +0000

MichaelHaneline: Are you always this dishonest? You claimed this:

["No, you said it doesn’t hold us down in any way, and that is BS."]

And that is hilariously wrong. To say, as you did, that being white holds white people down is utterly and stupidly wrong.

Furthermore, whether you like it or not, the problem is not merely that everyone hates each other. The problem is caused by a systemic and pervasive racism that favors white people over everyone else. Insisting that this can be fixed with a load of feel-good mush about how everyone just needs to stop hating each other shows that you’ve closed your eyes to the real problem.

So no, I didn’t miss the point. You just have no idea what you’re talking about.