Bloody fucking hell...

[wyn]

Not everything is black and white..

I am so sick of idiots playing the fucking race cards.

Seriously.

"I forgot he was black." Wtf? Hmm, he's black. Woo. And? Just because someone is black, white, red, yellow, or pink and white checkered with day-glo green zig-zags, it doesn't make them act a certain way. That comment, as well intentioned as it may (or may not) have been, was just ignorant.

I get the point of people being offended by that, I really do, but I also take issue with something said by a black woman as well:

Sophia Nelson, a black attorney, former lobbyist and founder of PoliticalIntersection.com, which focuses on politics, race and gender, said she has been offended by people calling her articulate and intelligent: "That's saying that people who look like me normally aren't those things."

No. You idiot, you. That's like saying you appear to be articulate and intelligent. Should I- a female Native American and Caucasian mix- take offense when someone tries to compliment me by calling me intelligent and well-spoken? No. I'm going to thank them and more than likely pawn off the compliment with something witty in return.

And it only goes to show once more that idiots, no matter the race, creed, sexual persuasion, age or gender, will still go out of their way to take issue with things.

As ignorant as that first comment was, that second comment? It was just as bad. I'm so sick of the whole walking on eggshells bullshit so many people dance around, especially as of late.

You're black. Get over it.

I'm white. Get over it.

You and I? We still bleed red when you prick us. We both breathe oxygen, need food and water and sunlight to live and we both have feelings, emotions, wants and needs and goals we'd like to accomplish.

Get over your fucking skin color.

Unless you don't want to.

In which case, at least have the balls to say, "I'm black, I'm racist, and I think everyone owes me the world." Or, in the case of the white guy down the street: "I'm white, I'm racist, and I think no one can do anything as well as I can."

Either way, maybe we should just hand out shotguns and swords and let everyone kill each other off from their own stupidity. Because really, it doesn't matter what color the skin is- we'll still find some way of making ourselves morally superior to some other group.

Morons.

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[sydneyrodriguez.livejournal.com]

So...people are getting offended because Matthews actually saw Obama as simply a person, and skin color, for once, didn't factor into it?

I seriously don't get it.

Even if the man thought about Obama's race the other 23 hours of the day, Obama's charisma was still able to pull him beyond thinking that, and Matthews realized this. And because he realized it, if he was thinking about it before, he can consciously work to change that. Isn't that what this has been about for the past 50 years?

And Sophia Nelson is a moron for taking offense to such a compliment.

Frankly, in my opinion, it speaks far more about the person getting offended at stuff like that than it does about "the state of things these days," or whatever.

I remember one time, my mom told me a story about how she was at lunch with a female friend of her's and my mom was talking about a company that she referred to as "a white women's slave shop." Her friend asked her what she meant, because she'd never heard the phrase before. My mom replied with, "they don't hire men, and they don't hired bla..." and it was only then that it registered with my mom that her friend was black.

That, in my opinion, is the way it should be. Skin color shouldn't register any more than eye color or hair color or any other feature. Use it to add to the list of descriptive words to form that mental image of that person to store in your mind, sure, but it shouldn't have any other meaning beyond that, and it sure as hell shouldn't affect your opinion of them as a person.

[enteringxghost.livejournal.com]

UGH.

The stupidity of some people is so goddamn ridiculous sometimes.

You're completely right. I have never understood why the surface is so important to people when we all are born, live, and die the exact same way. The idiocy of the human race amazes me.