Rightwing86
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Sigh. Ok so I drank some vodka tonight, and was talking with my two roomies, from Mississippi. And of course somehow race got brought up. I think I may have posted something similar to this before so please forgive me.
One time my roommate suggested that if a black girl got raped it didn't matter to him as much as if a white girl got raped. But nonetheless he assured me he would still send the rapist to jail either way. That doesn't matter though, it matters that for some goddamn reason a white girl means more. I am white, I am libertarian, agnostic, I SICKENS ME that someone could think this way. ****ING SICKENS ME, in fact it enrages me. And boy we got into it. My mom always told me, to bite my tongue when things like this come up but damnit, I just can't. And than they always get so mad when I say People from the south are racists. He gets really mad then. But he can't be the only white guy who thinks a white girl getting raped means more than a black girl. Therefore there are others in the south who take his same view. I never ran into this before moving to the south for school. My mother is from Vicksburg MS and raised me to never hate another person, never be racist. Do I occasionally say the racist joke, yes. Is it immature and wrong, yes. But I don't actually believe anyone is more or less inferior and say that a white person matters more, that is bull****. And they always bring up "Well you're not from here where my county is 95% black so you don't know." Or they say "What inventions have African American's come up with?" Or "Why do blacks make up the majority in prison?" Those are not good questions. For one whites had a monopoly on society in this country for a long time. What we were just gonna let some black man patent his creation? Yeah right. Prisons, ok well when you get uneducated people who are poor, surrounded by drugs with no parents, they tend to not be the most outstanding citizens.
They say things like "How come when we were so advanced as a people they were still wearing loinclothes and killing eachother?"
This stuff is just very rude to my sensibilities. Other than this fact me and my roomies get a long very well. We have been friends for 3 years. But it irritates me, that they call themselves so called "Christians" and than hate on another one of "God's Creations" Since that is what they believe I assume.
Someone help me out here and either give advice, such as don't talk about this kinda stuff, or maybe some rebuttals?
If any of their things are true?
Why do blacks make up most of the prison system?
Why do blacks not really have any inventions?
Why were we more advanced than them at that age and even this one?
Why can't they seem to rise above their poverty like we can?
I know all of the above sound very racist, but these are things they asked me and I struggled with an answer.
1) Bad environments, no parents, possibly racism, longer/harder sentences. (is what I said.)
2) Not sure about # 2, possibly patent laws and no way to educate themselves.
3) Not even sure how to address this.
4) Not any evidence they can't I guess.
Is it wrong to say Southerners are racist when it seems a lot of racist people I meet tend to be or come from the South? I know not all are, but it seems a lot are. Is it fair to say the South has far more racist than any other area of the country? Why does this make people mad?
I am from CA and FL. I don't give a **** if someone says there are a lot of dumb liberals or homosexuals in San Francisco, or that there are a bunch of old terrible drivers in FL.
The people in the South are still stuck up on this NORTH SOUTH CRAP. They are like well you are from the North (CA) and I'm like... I don't give a **** about my state. I am an American. I am not a Californian, or Floridian, or Mississippian... Who cares it's about your country, not your damn state.
One time my roommate suggested that if a black girl got raped it didn't matter to him as much as if a white girl got raped. But nonetheless he assured me he would still send the rapist to jail either way. That doesn't matter though, it matters that for some goddamn reason a white girl means more. I am white, I am libertarian, agnostic, I SICKENS ME that someone could think this way. ****ING SICKENS ME, in fact it enrages me. And boy we got into it. My mom always told me, to bite my tongue when things like this come up but damnit, I just can't. And than they always get so mad when I say People from the south are racists. He gets really mad then. But he can't be the only white guy who thinks a white girl getting raped means more than a black girl. Therefore there are others in the south who take his same view. I never ran into this before moving to the south for school. My mother is from Vicksburg MS and raised me to never hate another person, never be racist. Do I occasionally say the racist joke, yes. Is it immature and wrong, yes. But I don't actually believe anyone is more or less inferior and say that a white person matters more, that is bull****. And they always bring up "Well you're not from here where my county is 95% black so you don't know." Or they say "What inventions have African American's come up with?" Or "Why do blacks make up the majority in prison?" Those are not good questions. For one whites had a monopoly on society in this country for a long time. What we were just gonna let some black man patent his creation? Yeah right. Prisons, ok well when you get uneducated people who are poor, surrounded by drugs with no parents, they tend to not be the most outstanding citizens.
They say things like "How come when we were so advanced as a people they were still wearing loinclothes and killing eachother?"
This stuff is just very rude to my sensibilities. Other than this fact me and my roomies get a long very well. We have been friends for 3 years. But it irritates me, that they call themselves so called "Christians" and than hate on another one of "God's Creations" Since that is what they believe I assume.
Someone help me out here and either give advice, such as don't talk about this kinda stuff, or maybe some rebuttals?
If any of their things are true?
Why do blacks make up most of the prison system?
Why do blacks not really have any inventions?
Why were we more advanced than them at that age and even this one?
Why can't they seem to rise above their poverty like we can?
I know all of the above sound very racist, but these are things they asked me and I struggled with an answer.
1) Bad environments, no parents, possibly racism, longer/harder sentences. (is what I said.)
2) Not sure about # 2, possibly patent laws and no way to educate themselves.
3) Not even sure how to address this.
4) Not any evidence they can't I guess.
Is it wrong to say Southerners are racist when it seems a lot of racist people I meet tend to be or come from the South? I know not all are, but it seems a lot are. Is it fair to say the South has far more racist than any other area of the country? Why does this make people mad?
I am from CA and FL. I don't give a **** if someone says there are a lot of dumb liberals or homosexuals in San Francisco, or that there are a bunch of old terrible drivers in FL.
The people in the South are still stuck up on this NORTH SOUTH CRAP. They are like well you are from the North (CA) and I'm like... I don't give a **** about my state. I am an American. I am not a Californian, or Floridian, or Mississippian... Who cares it's about your country, not your damn state.