Racial chitstorm part II, the Mark Cuban edition

I don't see what the big deal is.

"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating." Jesse Jackson 11/29/93

"That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about." Jesse Jackson 1/25/84

 

Yeah same, I didn't mean to sound like I was picking you out. It was more of a general "you".

 

Get your CHL.... problem solved.

 

I'm sorry but you simply can't equate a Black guy in a hoodie with a guy with a shaved head and tattoos on his face Cuban... I think that's where the problem lies...

 

You're right. The black guy in the hoodie is statistically more likely to shoot, rob or assault Cuban than the tatted white guy. :MARIS61:

 

I'd walk on the other side of the street if i saw some Indians i didn't know coming toward me.

 

Oooh, where did these statistics come from exactly?

 

Freakonomics

 

They list crime stats of people with tattoos versus black guys in hoodies?

 

Jeebus Christo, here comes Mr. PC to save the day.

 

Mr. PC? What are you talking about?

 

No, I think he just sniffed out your bullshit argument. Why don't you just say the N Papa?

 

We were all raised in race biased, gender biased, class, heteronormative, "lookist" (for lack of better term) society. None of us are immune.

However, recognizing none of us are immune from prejudice is not an excuse to pander to it but to recognize it must be fought.

 

The minute White people as a whole understand the privilege it is to be White in our society, is the minute all this will start to get better.
Empathy is where it starts. White people will never understand what it is like to be followed when you are in a store just because you have your hands in your pockets...

 

Yes, I'm a huge racist.

 

Sounds awful. How do you survive with that sort of bigotry?

 

Instead of finding a quote from a Black guy saying something racist, why not just say racism is wrong?

 

Exactly. You'll never understand.

Edit: And it also seems you are unwilling to empathize.

You are perpetuating racism until you do....

 

I don't think what Cuban said is at all racist. Is it racial? Sure, but it's not racist.

 

Just like you're a racist for assuming things about me based on my skin color? I don't know a thing about you, other than you have some decent NBA takes at times. I'm just a Blazer fan.