For the love of Moses, I really can't understand why a lot of people are misreading this post, because what I’m seeing is:
A. Human beings, no matter what race, sex or religion, (ect) should be treated equally.
B. But if you act like a jerk, you will be treated as one. A jerk is a jerk, whatever they may look like.
C. People shouldn’t play the race card when it isn’t necessary (like say, if your losing an argument, or if someone doesn‘t agree with you or your way of thinking.) It’s a bit like calling wolf, if you as me. But if someone is genuinely discriminating against you because of your race or gender (ect) then you should say something about it. You shouldn’t just use your race as an escape route, or use it for leeway. You should achieve your goals with your own vices!

I am mixed-race female. Part black, part white, part other. And I have experience a lot of racist/sexist crap because of it. But I have never found my self hating on the people involved colour or sex. And I never let it hold me back. I really don’t give a flip about these so called “barriers” that are there holding me back, because once I start believing in that kind of rubbish, I’ve already lost. I could sit there and say “I didn’t get that job because I’m female…” or “they didn’t like me because of my race.” or I can bloody do something about it! I don’t want to be accepted over such shallow and trivial reasons. I want to be accepted because I am the best at what I do! And if someone get something I wanted because they have a higher level of skills, by jove, I’m going to put in 110% to be ten, no hundred times better than them!

I know there is still a lot of injustice in the world. But seriously, we are not going to be able to deal with it if we are not able to discuss it at all because if we do not discuss, how will we learn? A lot of people here have called Freegurt a racist for the mere fact that she is talking about race, which is utterly ridiculous. I have seen no point where she has written “People who aren’t white should have equal rights and should be treated differently” . She has been saying the complete opposite! So what? Can only people of colour discuss race? Isn’t that a little bit racist?


But as long as we see race or gender (ect) as a barrier we are always gonna have to deal with this shit how ever stupid it seems . LOL and there goes me thinking that we were all human beings before what we may look like!

I really have no other problem, okay, not too much of a problem, with the rest of Freegurt's post. But he/she/sorry makes it sound like when you treat all colored people equally, they have a hissy fit.
Ad then there's the whole "I'm not racist", which is like how my dad says "I'm not trying to be rude/mean/etc, but" and then says things I'd get whupped for saying.
But other than that, it's all fine and dandy.

This has been a funny and interesting read.

I'm not much racist, I have friends of all manner of races and sexualities but I can still laugh at racist jokes. the problems i have with people of other race or sexuality are because the people not their skin or sexual preference.

I once had an employee whose family was from Iran, he was born there but raised here in the UK. he was easy to get on with but very prejudiced and yet he would pull the racist card at every opportunity.
Prejudiced how? very anti american often offending customers, he assumed that all white people were racist. When he was called a paki by a customer he started ranting because he had been called a filthy pakistani. Wrong on so many levels.

One thing I really hate and think extends all types of Isms is when the people in a group segregate themselves. Saying nobody else understands them and will never understand them.

Of course they won't. Even people of the same ethnic origin and gender do that. What makes you guys so special?

And besides. How can you expect people to understand if you won't show them or explain thing to them because they're not like you?


I hear and see this an awful lot when girls are together in a group and boys are together in a group and they're both performing that same activity or playing the same game.
If you decide to hang with the boys and you're a girl, then you are somehow treated like you were being unfair and that you were playing for the wrong team by the other girls.
If you believed in true equality you wouldn't give a damn who you played with or against.

I don't understand why it's okay for a black guy to call you his "dog" but if you call him "boy", that has slave connotations.

Nowadays, you can buy and own a dog. Children are supposed to be looked after by their parents or guardians but they are NOT their property unlike ye olden days.

I happen to have been born and raised in a country in which there's so few black people, 90% of the ones you DO meet have been living there less than a decade and still sound like they just came off the boat, plane or long car ride up from London. I grew up around GENUINE racism. Not some stupid misunderstandings regarding word usage.

In my second primary (elementary) school the other children used to do eenie meenie miney mo with the N-word and when we had Kenyan kids over to stay for a week when I was 18, the youngest boy went out into the street to play with the other local kids around the same age. They were chanting "Ooga Booga Booga" and behaving like 1920s cartoon caricatures. He wasn't aware if it, though. He just thought it was a game. But my mum saw it happen and was enraged by it.

Ironically, most of these really racist people in Scotland are usually friends or friends of friends with south asian or arabic people or their mixed race descendants. Hell, I had the pleasure of witnessing a Pakistani Scottish bus driver being racist towards a black English woman by completely ignoring her requests for help with getting her baby buggy off at the next stop.
I also saw the dirty glares of passengers reluctantly getting in a bus driven by a Chinese man. Nobody even said thanks like you usually get with every other bus driver in the city.

Compare these to an incident that happened the halloween after I left my first college. A black student accused the other white students of being racist because HE was offended by his tutor being a lesbian and had a rage fit over it.

Now, when I was at that college there were three boys from ethnic minorities in my year And NONE of them were treated any differently for it. Some of the same students who hung around with those guys were in that class during that incident. They wouldn'tve stood for it if they thought there was any racism there.