Topic : 09/22 Are You a Racist?

You make a very clear points (clapping hands) ... I was wondering where the father was too but maybe he had plans or something that couldn t get him there who  knows... You really do make good points because I know of some people who like to play the blame game and saying poor me this and poor me that and not want to better themselves... it s ridiculus...move on.. yeah there may still be some racisim out there but hey I don t pay those people any mind. I guess for some people it seems they want to keep the slave mentality and want to put fault on someone who had no involvement with those times. 

I never "enslaved" anybody. I wasn't even BORN yet during the Jim Crow period. And I'm willing to bet that you are a young person too, so YOU may not have even been alive either. I work right next to two friends who are black, and I doubt they would be the "last hired, first fired" just because they are black. the idea is insulting. Just because SOME employers may do that doesn't mean they ALL do it. 

Let it go. If you live in a racist neighborhood, maybe you should move to more open-minded areas. Not EVERY white is a racist simply because they are white. Oh, and there are poor white people too, including me and my family. We aren't all rich at your expense.  

Let's "out" a big fat lie in our country: "Only white people are racists." LIE LIE LIE. Some of the biggest racists I've ever met have been black and asian. Heck, there are racists of ALL colors. How do you think it feels to walk down a street with a car-full of black guys following you saying things like, "Hey little white girl, better run home to your dad." 

It happens everywhere. Lets stop the tired "white people are the devil, black (or other minority people) are saints" rhetoric. 

Just because the father of teh baby wasn't on the show, doesn't mean anything there are a lot of white guys also who don't stand up to there children also.  just because a woman has a baby by a black man, doesn't mean that other people gonna be raising there children.   there are men of every race that doesn't  support there children.  i am gonna be raising my child on my own and if the father is around that is great, and if he isn't then i will do this on my own.  but he does take up the responsibiltiy of paying child support.  which i know alot of white guys who try to avoid paying child support.  we need to stop catagorizing about blacks and whites and start catagorizing as the human race. 

My husband and I were watching the sad story of the missing girl - Her mother has stayed very strong & I cannot imagine going through anything like that. I'm confused about using the "race card" when blaming the media for only talking about the other two White girls (Lacy etc..) It does not make any sense at all. So there were only two teenagers that have been reported missing in two years nationwide?????There are hundreds of missing teenagers every month in the U.S. without ANY coverage at all and majority are White!! We're not running around claiming that a son or daughter didn't get media coverage because the media is racist! I just saw a flyer at the local mall here for a missing teenage girl..she has been missing for over a month now...never was broadcasted on TV news even locally...she was not Black either. I know there was a lot of coverage for the last two missing girls, but their family had money and it was a scandiolous story line about Lacy. The media is horrible and does look for wealthy familys with a story line in order to make headlines. But it has nothing to do with their color!! Please let's stop this. It's getting out of control with the blames for hardship, jail etc just because of skin color..no it's not skin color, it's the action of the person -that's why they go to jail, black, white whatever. Stop the Race CARD!

i can also relate. growing up, i couldnt be-friend a single black girl, because i was too "white." i never understood what that ment. i was called everyhting in the book. i dont speak ebonics, and i cant understand it when other people do. nobody believes me when i say im born and raised in florida, b/c i dont have a southern drawl.  the thing that bothered me the most, is that i got made fun of by other black woman more than anything. i wasnt to light skinned, but i wasnt really dark either. im half indian and half jamaican, so they said im not really black.(explain that to me). and i had my hair pulled on all the time, b/c they wanted to know if its a weave. i didnt experiance any racism except from the black girls in school. so, b/c i didnt talk to them, i was labled a snob. i dont understand why some balck woman are turning against others, just b/c they're different, when we should be supporting each other.