Zero, when white America is put into chains, whipped, and made to do excruciating manual labor for room and board OR rounded up and put on little sovereign nations of the worst possible fucking land this country has to offer - then we can scream reverse racism justifiably. Until then - SHUT THE FUCK UP - we are not oppressed in any way shape or form.

The people of color were the ones oppressed as this country's wealth was made off their's and the backs of the poor white trash. If you can't wrap your head around that kind of thinking and understand the dynamics of the mistreatment of those people and the lingering effects continuing today, than I feel sorry for you. You should go back to college and relearn some World History.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

I re-read what I said and still not sure why you went off the deep end with such an atrocious and vicious response. It's as if you see someone respond and with no regard to the actual content you just spew out blind hatred. It is transparent with your response you didn't even attempt to comprehend the words at all. Perhaps my "too lazy" joke wasn't obvious enough of a joke and crossed a line regardless of its intended humor. I apologize.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Minorities aren't being given special treatment, they are being given makeup treatment for sins of the past. I understand your point of view and excuse it do to yours and all the other fool's ignorance that I continue to argue with on this topic. Until you all quit dismissing all the sins of the past as irrelevant, than we cannot have an intelligent conversation about something as ridiculous as minority privileges.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Sins of the past are not irrelevant.

They are, however, of the past.

We all have sins enough today to damn us. We don't need to add assignment of blame rightly assigned to those already dead.

Originally Posted by: Wade 

Did you know that Africans themselves would capture members of rival clans/tribes and sell them as slaves?
Did you know that Native Americans owned Black slaves?
Did you know that Africans owned White slaves and if/when they didn't perform they were SLAUGHTERED?

Truth is you will not find any race that was not cruel to or owned slaves of another race. That is a fact and I know you're wise enough to know this so why you pretend otherwise is befuddling.

Based on my experiences and observations interacting with minorities is minorities do not want special treatment of any kind and certainly do not feel it is owed to them for cruelties enacted by ancestors from centuries ago. Everyone, regardless of race, sexuality, appearance, age and what have you simply want the same opportunities afforded to them as the next person.


Many years ago I held the door for a gentlemen in a wheel chair and very rudely he snapped at me "I don't need your help!" instantly I snapped back with "Sir, I didn't hold the door because I felt you needed help. I held the door because it's what I do regardless of who is behind me". Then he said something that really confused me, he said, with a big smile on his face "Thank you!".

Some might want to label me insensitive for snapping back, so be it, but bottom line is he, just like everyone else simply wants to be treated as an equal person and that is what he was thanking me for.

Unfortunately some will inconsiderately and disrespectfully extrapolate my words and make harsh cruel statements about me without even knowing enough about me to do so. The hypocrisy with such is disheartening.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

But there in lies the problem - they aren't being treated equally and never will be in this country. Look at how horribly our first black president has been treated by the so called normal Americans. What a fucking disgrace those people are. We have a long, long way to go before we have equality and a level playing field in this country. And for the right wing to make the claim there is no such thing as racism, it is not only laughable, it is down right appalling for those bigots to even utter such nonsense.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

You are correct, people are certainly treated differently solely on being "different" whether it is their weight, appearance, height, skin color, voice, sexual preference and many other things that we as a human race should be evolved enough to be transparent to and view people as a person, nothing more, nothing less.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

But we aren't and especially in this country. The good normally Americans need to first learn some humility and then find some humanity.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT