rascism, HOW THE HELL IS IT SUDDENLY FUNNY??????? Options

[*anubis*]

so maybe i'll regret typing this later because i'm in more of a rage right now. but i am just SO sick and tired of rascism. and i want to know who else suffers from it. if it wasn't for the pg-13 rule, i'd be expressing this point a lot easier.

for those of you who are wondering, the topic made by brandonsaunders is different than this one. the others i've been sent (below) are different. mine is asking WHY PEOPLE ENCOURAGE IT. so don't try and get this closed because "oh you feel it conveys the same meaning."

IT DOESN'T!

so today, when i went to drivers ed class, this one guy--let's call him jason, was telling the entire class about one of his driving experiences.

he was like "okay so i was at this intersection, and this stupid chink tries to pass me... etc etc etc"

and then everyone laughed and giggled and thought it was funny that, jason, such a witty little boy, would use such vocabulary in something that was directed towards the entire class.

**for those of you who don't know what a chink is, it's basically the word, nigger, against chinese people**

and you know what? call me sensitive but that extremely offended me.

it wasn't necessarily the fact that he used the word (which was bad enough), but the fact that everyone was laughing about it.

out of about 30 people, i was one of two azn people in the entire class, so everyone around me consistently started staring at me and snickering going "oooh is it gonna offend him?"

and that just about pissed me off enough.

the other azn girl may have ignored it, but i wasn't just going to sit there and take that

so i basically blew up at the class.

this one kid was particularly looking at me and giggling to himself so i couldn't take it anymore.

i started yelling at him.

i was like "JESUS F***ING CHRIST!! WHY THE F*** ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME? WHAT? YOU GOT A PROBLEM AGAINST AZNS? ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME 'CAUSE I'M AZN? DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?! IS THIS FUNNY TO YOU?"

and he and everyone else backed down, knowing how serious i was about it. they were quiet about the issue, and the drivers ed teacher said nothing. she knew i was right, so she had nothing to say either.

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so then my friends at drivers ed told me later that i was overreacting. everyone thought i was overreacting.

but i didn't think so.

i think i had a right to be mad at the fact that people think this is funny. that people think rascism is suddenly so funny.

and i thought of all the people out there that had to deal with these things--on a daily basis.

and me, living in texas, only encouraged it since, even when i live in an urban area in dallas, there are still some narrow minded texans out there that only see white as the beloved race.

SO

my question to everyone else is, do you guys ever have to deal with shit like this?

and if you're one of those a**f***s that make these remarks, or encourage it, why?

WHY DO PEOPLE ENCOURAGE RASCISM??

why do most people just sit there and let it happen in daily life?

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Why do all the black kids sit together at lunch?

Don't take that as a racist comment.

It's not.

Let me explain.

Has anyone read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison? Well, the author of the book is an African-American woman, and in this one particular section, she talks about how she despises the traditional doll that every little girl is supposed to love. You know, the perfect Aryan doll, blue eyes, blonde hair, pink skin and rosy cheeks. She goes on to say how much she hates them- she's frightened of them, she finds them incredibly uncomfortable to sleep with, and the only thing she actually wants to do to the doll is dismember it, to find out what is so lovable about it, to see the beauty that she seemed to miss out on. What she is trying to say in this passage is that she doesn't see the beauty in this perfect doll- she wonders, Why aren't there any black dolls? Dolls like me? And this makes her confused. All she wants to do is belong. Belong to a group that is like her.

Which brings me back to the first statement. Not just black people sit together. Groups of Asians do, the whites congregate in their own cliques, the hispanics, and et cetera. They do it because people naturally want to be in a part of a group that shares common characteristics with themselves- they want to be around people that look like them. It's just the way most people act- sure, there are exceptions, but most people feel safe (or relatively so, anyway) with people like them. I think this tendency people have has an effect on racism- all these single-race groups sit at their own table, but not with each other. The gap between the races increases because of lack of communication, and this gives people the oppurtunity to judge the race solely by stereotypes. With these judgments formed and no personal relations are able to back it up, they possess opinions that aren't necessarily true about the race, which lead to racism.

*bets no one reads this*