<div class="quote_poster">bryce40ww Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Umair, you've said some dumb **** on this site in the past, but this one tops it all. You're saying that turning a blind eye to racism is a solution. That 's the way to promote it. It's people's acceptance of those terms that keeps them in circulation today. We need to learn from history, not "leave it behind". To even suggest that we should leave things like slavery and racism in the past is absurd. It's an issue that is still raging on and one that can't be dismissed by you or anybody else. Do you want people 50 years from now to forget the injustices that you face? In another thread you say how much you hate being called a terrorist. You seem to be especially sensitive to that topic but grossly ignorant about this one. Just as intolerance against muslims needs to be remembered and stopped, so does racism against black people. This WILL NOT be accomplished by "leaving history behind".</div> Look dude. What I am saying is that if blacks keep on thinking about slavery and all, and when a non-black person calls them a terrorist, they say this word has a long history. They are then offended. What I am saying is thatit is not right for a non black person to call a black person a n//ger and also blacks need to stop being all sensitive and stuff. I am not saying leave the history behind. What I am saying is that forget that slavery ever happened. If you dont think about it when someone calls you a n//ger, it doesnt make such a big deal. The N word was used like 200 years ago, slavery is over with now, everyone has freedom, so stop being extra sensitive. I know its wrong for a non black person to call a black person the N word, but blacks dont need to get too sensitive about it as well. Say if a black person calls me a terrorist, I wont get all pissed, atleast not as pissed as a black man would get when called the N word. Like I said before: No one needs to be called a n//ger, terrorist, cracker etc. Its just wrong to be racist and be racist towards others because these words hurt everyone. <div class="quote_poster">bryce40ww Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> In another thread you say how much you hate being called a terrorist. You seem to be especially sensitive to that topic but grossly ignorant about this one.</div> Ofcourse I am sensitive because it just happened about 5 years ago. Slavery ended like 200 years ago. Its historied now. People need to forget that about it now. And when I mean forget, I am not meaning forget like completely forget, but forget it like when someone calls a black person the N word. People were called the N words back then normally. They might have been as sensitive as I am to terrorist now. In 200 years do you think I will be pissed if someone calls me a terrorist? No! During slavery was going on, then someone would've been pissed, but its been over 2 centuries.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting umair:</div><div class="quote_post">I am not saying leave the history behind. What I am saying is that forget that slavery ever happened. </div> You are contradicting yourself. It should be important to never forget slavery happened, but it's equally important to not use it as a crutch.
As a huge Seinfeld fan, I thought I'd make my opinion heard in this thread. I've seen the apology, I've seen the video. First off, it seems like Michael Richards was clearly high or drunk because every good stand-up comedian knows how to react to these types of situations without it getting out of hand. Second, I do believe that Richards tried to turn the whole issue into a bad joke around half through the whole thing. Regardless, nobody should get race involved at all in this society.
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">You are contradicting yourself. It should be important to never forget slavery happened, but it's equally important to not use it as a crutch.</div> Yeah thats what I mean. I mean like dont completely forget, but like dont use it as a reason when someone calls you a name.
"You see? It shocks you...it shocks you, it shocks you to see what's buried inside you stupid motherf**kasss!" I don't know why he's calling the crowd stupid, but I'm guessing the "buried inside" part is referencing to himself. Even in his apology interview (which CBS took off Youtube), he says that he's worried about "more anger and hate spewing" so I clearly think he himself was racist all this time and that *black* man heckling him was the last straw. Regardless, that is worst place and way to to blow up I have ever seen.
<div class="quote_poster">Karma Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> Regardless, that is worst place and way to to blow up I have ever seen.</div> Not really. If that one person didn't happen to be recording it with their phone, then we probably would have never heard about it.
That's true actually. I was wondering the other day what would happen if there was no such thing as youtube. I also don't see how people watch Seinfield differently. He's an actor. Just because he's a no-name actor and his only claim to fame is Kramer, doesn't mean that's him. I watched an episode a couple days and still laughed. It's the same as watching Lethal Weapon movies and realizing that the character isn't actually Mel Gibson, but Mel Gibson acting.
<div class="quote_poster">Karma Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">"You see? It shocks you...it shocks you, it shocks you to see what's buried inside you stupid motherf**kasss!" I don't know why he's calling the crowd stupid, but I'm guessing the "buried inside" part is referencing to himself. Even in his apology interview (which CBS took off Youtube), he says that he's worried about "more anger and hate spewing" so I clearly think he himself was racist all this time and that *black* man heckling him was the last straw. Regardless, that is worst place and way to to blow up I have ever seen.</div> Exactly. You just don't blow up and say all that sh!t he was saying. He said the "N" word several times and other racist comments. Tat type of stuff doesn't just spew out of the blue.
