racism misspent youth no one wants to talk about it, not even on blather. and what about reverse racism? does that just mean that if i am white, and i get desciminated against that its being reversed on to me. but that implies that i was racist against someone else for the same reason. doesn't racism mean descriminating against a person or people by some difference whether physical or mental? 010321 ... Black on both sides the world is to small for this ,aren't we all on the same side ,I geuss not when you have places like america and coke and Mc donalds nah we will never all be on the same side , keep tyhe faith lets fuck each other over 010404 ... orange lifes a joke when coupled with other people 010405 ... Kevin we're all human beings, it doesn't matter what we look like or what we believe in. Racists should be more severely punished, I think. 010704 ... sasha people been judged by the color of their skin, or by their culture is as primitive as...a primitive person, i dunno. 010704 ... dB Ok, you want to blathe about racism, let's go. We gave the maori people everything they asked for. Sure there were battles in the past when white people fiirst colonised this place, but it was nowhere near as bad as it was in australia or anywhere else for that matter. And sure, I'm all for preservation of culture, it IS important to know where you came from. BUT, you know what I see EVERY fucking morning! I see white kids going to that run down health risk of a kindergarden down the road. about 10 minutes after that I see the latest Ford econovans, a fleet of them going to pick up the maori kids and take them to their kindergarden. The vans are paid for by the tax payer. They get upgraded every year, and there are 7 or so for every maori kindergarden. The building itself is fully wired with the latest computer gear. The staff get paid between two or three times as much as a normal kindie teacher. The buildings are upgraded every two years, fully overhauled. Things like insulation, heating, carpet, EVERYTHING that a normal kindergarden does not have, these kids have. Now I have nothing against that. I believe that having good facilities for the young people to learn in is most important. BUT, when the government, in the name of "equal rights" segregates learning centres, and give the maori kids more than they need, and the white kids end up sick because the hearters thy have are old and don't do the job, and even if they did, there is no insulation or carpet to retain that heat, it tells you something. This is just an example. If you want further proof, i got more. If you want to be a teacher, you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get the training. If you are maori, and you want to be a teacher, the government pays for you. Not only that, but they give you an allowance and extra money for your books and stuff. Eropeans have to take out a loan for everything. A loan with interest rates so high that they are near impossible to pay back. It's the same with most of the education system here. Special rules and pay-outs if you are maori. If you are a maori on the dole you get more money and special "bonuses" for getting clothes or equipment like computers or whatever if you claim it'll help you get work. When I was on the dole, I was paying $100 a week board in my flat. I was only GETTING $98.15 a week form the department of work and income because that was all I was ENTITLED to. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON!! They asked for equal rights. They got them. Then they wanted more. And they got that too. I'm not racist. I treat everyone the same. If you are black, white, asian, smart, stupid, purple with pink spots, it doesn't matter. I hate everyone equally until you give me a reason not to hate you. And that reason could be something small, even something as simple as a smile will do. In New Zealand there is a problem. and it's going to get worse with time. RACISM. As the maori people demand more and more and the two races are driven further apart, what do you think is going to happen? 010704 ... csiagian why does the color of our skin provoke such attention? when my sister announced recently she was marrying a black man, my mom said innocently "he has kinky hair doesn't he". i'm originally from borneo but i used to live in youngstown, ohio (which i amazingly learned to adore - ghetto, jazz, and all) and one day at the parking lot of the downtown post office this guy with blue eyes and greying hair comes up to me, gives me a big hug and says "my, you're a goodlooking one, do you know jane chong? i used to know her in china." i hugged him back because he seemed nice. in singapore people always asked "are you malay or chinese" depending on if i had a tan, but a white guy there came up to me once and said "you look just like my daughter." he later explained his wife was indian. i now live in oklahoma (i know, i've lived some strange places) and people still say things like, "wow you speak such good english" - and i still don't know what exactly to say back because i'm not sure if they're ignorant or the r word. 010706 ... Dafremen I think racism isn't as a big a problem as people make it out to be. I myself am a big proponent of the sport. When Dale Earnhardt died I wasn't sure if I would be able to continue being a racist...but racism limped along without him and so did I. So like I said, I don't see what all of the fuss is about. Everyone I know enjoys racist events and shows and we even go to the NASCAR Expos that show up at the convention center from time to time to see some of racism's best drivers. I highly recommend racism to anyone as a way of having fun with the family and not spending too much money. (Be careful about letting the kids see all of the racist souvenirs...I mean who can resist you know?) Everyone's just GOTTA love racism...it's one of the few activities anymore that brings people together instead of pushing them apart. Maybe if more folx got into racism instead of hate, people of all religions, creeds and colors could finally learn to understand one another instead of fighting all the time. 010706 ... Sol i never understood racism, my best freind a few years ago was shri lankan, and now one of my best freinds is chinese. It frightens me, and the media make it worse, i think ,they have brought it into my mind and nowe it is lodged there, i fight against it all i can but there is a vaguely racist/race oriented subcurrent which scares me which very infrequently makes itself knwon in my thoughts, although rarely if ever to an individual, it would be about a neiboring nation (eg the welsh/french, where my thoughts are feeding off centuries of dischord)it scares me a lot that I am capable of it 010706 ... Dafremen Another fortunate consequence of parentless childhood...I was spared. Thank gawd too. I met my biological mother 22 years later and she was a heroin addicted White supremacist loser who I associated with only BRIEFLY and then only for purposes of getting some old photos of ME and some answers about my past and my heritage. Thank gawd that's all I got from her. ~Shudder~ Nature Vs. Nurture? You decide. 010706 ... nocturnal you SOOO do not want me to comment on that issue in reference to you and your birth mother. I'll be going on about this in my head for hours. 010706 ... nocturnal oh, and on the subject of racism, I don't usually think in a racist manner. but today I found myself doing it. in my defense, however, I challenge any of you to come down here this weekend (it's essence fest weekend) and hang around in the downtown/quarter area and not think a single racist thought. 010706 ... black-dyed gel product Hey Sol, so your best friend a few years ago was sri lankan and your new best friend is chinese eh? Why not keep the old best friend, he sounded nice enough, what happened? Did you kill him? you did, didn't you. You bastard! HOW MANY BEST FRIENDS ARE YOU GOING TO KILL BEFORE YOU'RE FINALLY BROUGHT TO JUSTICE?!!! YOU SICK SONUVA BITCH! 010707 ... Dafremen Ohh you're soo wrong nocturnal. That would have been DELIGHTFULLY pathetic if you had gotten into the whole me and my birth mother thing. I would have been amused for hours I'm sure. Something about a fiery red head getting cheap kicks out of trashing some drug-addicted, vacuous, wasted, human life that's just really kind of amusing in a epileptic-swallowing-his-own-tongue kind of way. And THEN to start trashing my biological mother TOO?! Tsk tsk. (Feel free....it's been a hobby of mine whenever the subject of racism comes up to offer her up as sort of a conversational sacrifice to be burned in effigy.) 010707 ... yummychuckle Wowwww....ok this has nothing to do with racism, but um i just realized dafremen reminds me of the comic book guy on the simpsons. when comic book guy goes "you make me laugh"...its dafremens sarcasm i guess. aannnny way...my grandfather is racist, which provoked some interesting conversation on my brothers birthday (spent with family at the grandparents house). 010709 ... Dafremen Actually ms. chuckle, the guy on the Simpson's is being arrogant AND sarcastic and I am not, I would ACTUALLY be amused and arrogance is beneath me.(I'd also be interested to hear a few good "your mom is" disses from noc, let's see what she's got.) Otherwise the whole lonely geek comparison is pretty much dead on. Marvel Comics rule! DC Bl0ze! 010709 ... black-dyed gel product further proof that daffy is a weenie that eats poopie aHAHAHAHAHA! 010710 ... Dafremen In yer hair fat boy! 010710 ... Power through Passion racism is all about people thinking about themselves. It's about taking incredibly minor differences between people and half baking them into something far more meaningful in the crucible of the human mind. But it has no meaning. I could set twenty people in a line and you could not tell me that any one person was a different "race" from either of the people next to them. But many claim that the two people at the two ends of the line are a different "race." I say, shame on you. 010710 ... Dafremen By the way Power Through Passion....have you met black_dyed_gel_product yet? (points at bdgp's 'considerably-taller-than-most basketball-players' spiked hair) I thought not... Now that you have...care to revise that blather? 010710 ... Sonya cowardice ignorance bitterness hatred there is no justification for it... don't even try 020117 ... cube Yeah, those aussies - good lookin' with those cute accents. Hate 'em. Should ship 'em all back to wherever they came from. England, i think. And those bloody english bastards - great music and a hotbed of new trends. Hate 'em. Should ship 'em all back to wherever they came from. Continental europe, i think. Those continentals... ³ 020118 ... kx21 Human's basic instinct... 020118 ... Shane When my best friend in middle school was black my Korean parents told me to stop talking to her. In elementary school the bullies called me a chink and I often daydreamed about killing them. I wonder if they had known what was going on in my mind they would have stopped. It's hard to be the only Asian in a redneck high school which is 80% white, 19.9% black, and .1% other. I was the one other. AND JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION I AM NOT RELATED TO BRUCE LEE AND I DO NOT KNOW KARATE. AND HOW STUPID ARE YOU TO ASK ME IF I CAN SPEAK CHINESE WHEN I'M KOREAN!!! 020920 ... offended redneck i guess that means yous the wrong person to ask how to use these here throwing stars? jeesh...don't be so abrasive. i try to understand your culture. the least you can do is try to understand mine. after all...i love pokemon. so you go home and fix yourself some nachos with cheese whiz and we'll be even. haha...funny item from a korean menu..."duk man doo gook". cute written language though...all the little circles... oh haha...and the first time i went to my friend's house...his grandma took my shoes off of me by force and threw them out the window. all we ask of guests in my rv is that you clean your plastic utensils after use and put them back in the utensil mug. 020920 ... Drake Dracoli A fabrication. Non-Existant. Un-Natural. Not ever once found in Nature. Have you heard about those recent white dog vs. black dog wars? Niether have I. Racism is a fabrication. It