The difference between a racist and someone who is blindly ignorant

Sometimes someone can say something that comes off as racist...usually its when that person conforms to some stereotype.

But that doesn't necessarily make them racist, so to speak. There is a famous video on youtube where this guy (I think he may be black or biracial, i dunno) talks about how to tell someone what they did was racist.

As he said, there is a difference between telling someone they are racist and telling someone what they said or did was racist. Now naturally, the racist will deny it at all costs, will get defensive either way, and ultimately call you the racist for pointing out their racism.

But what makes the racist different from someone who is blindly ignorant?

Well the blindly ignorant are so cultured in their white privilege that sometimes they don't realize how patronizing they can be to minorities and how conforming they actually are to stereotypes. Yet when you tell them what they are saying or doing is wrong or how it will be percieved and they listen and try not to do that again...that is what makes them different from the racist.

A racist will keep defending their actions without listening to your rationale. An ignorant person is more apt to listening to what you have to say. They may not understand why its wrong and may not care deep down that its wrong and may even think in their own mind that you are making an issue out of nothing...but if they at least stop what they are saying or doing, you have made it one step further than you ever would have with a racist.

What it basically comes down to is respect. You address the blindly ignorant, they are more likely to respect your wishes to stop what they are saying or doing. Only the racist would continue on, showing not only their racism, but their penchant for being disrespectful.

I remember on an episode of ER, Ross was assuming this black man was a cocaine druggie and wouldn't let him have his daughter. Conni (the black nurse) had to set the record straight. She told him she didn't see Ross as a racist, but what he was doing was. So Ross made things right, and turned out the dad wasn't a druggie but the daughter was...and as it turned out, what that family was dealing with was the same kind of things any ordinary family would be dealing with that would result in a rebellious teen doing drugs. Of course there have been other episodes with issues of race popping up where a white person jumped to conclusions only to be proven wrong (Green and Archie Morris, and this is not including all the episodes of racist cops harassing the black doctors).

In the end, the blindly ignorant still have a little bit of a chance of being educated...but the less we educate the more likely the will learn to become a racist.

White conservatives still defend Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart posted an edited video of a black woman by the name of Shirley Sherrod. His intent was to make her look like a racist. In the end, he made himself look like a racist fool when it was revealed that the video he posted of her was edited.

Now not surprisingly the conservatives are backing this guy. Go to websites like HotAir, Politico, FreeRepublic, and so on and you will see a major flow of conservatives supporting this guy.

But sadly this incident shows you that whites regardless of political beliefs are likely to betray you if you are black.

Democrats were asking for he resignition and news sites and everyone even blacks (Obama and the NAACP) were condemning her without fact checking the whole incident.

This incident shows you how pathetic newsing has become. Anyone with shit for brains expects this kind of crap from Fox News, but other news sources are much more legit than them and even they fell victim to this. Heck even the NAACP fell victim and they had the whole video on hand (it was one of their events she was speaking at that Breitbart edited).

But, Breitbart should take a considerable amount of blame for his lying and defamation of Sherrod. But the Administration and all news sources that aired Breitbart's version of the video should all hold some blame too. For it was their shoddy fact checking that led to the lie only being spread further.

But I find it sad that the only person that seemed to immediately come to Sherrod's defense was the very white farmer everyone was saying she was being racist to. The white farmer that had to come out and actually say that what Breitbart had posted was a lie.

From what I know, she has been offered a job back at USDA...but she isn't sure if she wants it.

I honestly don't blame her for not taking the job back if she didn't...who wants to work for people who would sell you up the creek without actually getting their facts straight?

If this were a white person we all know USDA would be defending them, as would the whole country. Yet sadly, no one is supporting Sherrod even after the revelation that she was a victim of a racist conservative.

I hope Sherrod sues Breitbart and Fox News and the rest of the news networks. She has a case...I mean, I just read how two white fire fighters won a lawsuit when they felt their character was defamed after they played a cruel joke on a black firefighter. If idiots like those two can win a lawsuit over their own stupid actions, then I would hope someone could win a lawsuit over something that is an actual case such as Sherrod's.

All I know is that when the conservatives don't denounce their wrongdoings...it just further proves how insane these people are.

Let this be a lesson to people about jumping to conclusions.

Bill Cosby does have a point...

A couple of years ago Bill Cosby came under fire in the black community for a speech he gave criticizing the current state of "black culture", specifically the youth and their gangsta image.

Some people criticized what Cosby said saying that he wasn't figuring in the social aspects and that he was speaking from the point of view of an elitist.

I have to say that both sides are right.

I am strongly against the gangsta culture. I hate rap, I hate the dress styles, and I despise ebonics.

I also don't like the gangsta view of education either.

Black peoples insistence on not trying to be like white people is exactly what makes white people hate us even more...our race is giving them more ammo to make excuses to justify their racism.

But I do agree that you can't completely ignore social aspects. I mean black people can be the exact mirror image of white people and still suffer racism from businesses and cops and etc.

Yet, at the same time, we don't need to be encouraging the gangsta lifestyle any more than we have been.

I mean the way things have been have obviously done nothing for us.

I guess the thing is is that black culture seemed to be more honest and better during the 1950s...which is sad to say considering the time period.

Do I still care about my biracial identity??

At this point...I truly don't.

Yes I am biracial. And I will correct someone when need be...but, I just don't care as much.

I noticed I turned this blog more into my advocacy for blacks and less about being biracial.

I guess its because on one level there just isn't much to put about being biracial and truth be told....it really isn't a big deal.

I realized its not my identity. Its part of who I am but its just not something that makes me different.

In the end, to society I will be black. So why bother parading around some stupid identity that honestly means nothing to anyone....not even to the person vocalizing it?

There is no united front about the issue and I certainly don't care about it. I can tell a person I only half black but at the end of the day I am 100% black to them and every stereotype they have for a black person is labelled on me.

So yeah, forget biracial identity. I don't care anymore.

Hilmer von Campe

Hilmer von Campe was a Hitler Youth. He wrote a book basically calling Obama the next hitler. It is obvious he hasn't learn from his hitler days since he supports the Republican Party which is the closest thing to Hitler, right down to the racism.

Guys like him are nutso. Why American allowed any Nazi Germany Germans into America is beyond me.

Hitler supporters, such as himself, should be banned from America.

Not much else to say about the racist extremist creepo.

To all whites, blacks look the same

When police officers arrest a black person for some crime committed, the police officer almost never makes sure they are arresting the right person. As far as they are concerned, the suspect is black, and the man in their custody is black and to them that is a job well done.

We know and they know that the courts will view it the exact same way. Its not a matter of making sure you are getting the actual criminal, its a matter of putting blacks in jail.

To a white person, every single black looks alike. We have no varying hair colors. No varying eye colors. Yet oddly enough, white people could still confuse a light skinned black person and a dark skinned black person.

I find it ironic that whites are so busy just wanting to get any black person behind bars that they are not doing anyone any favors by putting the wrong black perosn behind bars. I mean, if the criminal is still loose, then that means more crimes to be committed are still ahead. Yet white people don't care. They just don't care.

When you are black, you are not allowed to have any individuality. White people would be all in a tiff if you were to treat them all the same way because of the actions of one white. Yet white people see no wrong in treating all black people as if we are all the same way.

I hate white people. I don't want to date them nor befriend them.

Obama's presidency = a new kind of racism

We have basically gone back into Jim Crow racism. Whites do not flinch at the idea of blacks suffering from their racism. Whites defend racism every chance they get. But what makes this racism different than Jim Crow is the fact that whites make themselves out to be victims while also being the perp.

Obama's presidency did bring out the racism in many. White supremacists had predicted it years before. They wanted a black man to win the presidency because they knew white people would start behaving like they did during Jim Crow. And they were right. They were absolutely correct.

I truly do believe we black people will suffer the same fate as the Jews did only worse.

White people are evil. They live for these kinds of things. They are predisposed to destruction and murder. Just look at history and all the horrible and terrible things white people have done.

A race war is going to happen...its just a question of when. I don't trust white people one bit.

Black people need to wake up and see the truth. White people are dangerous and cannot be trusted. They are Satan's people and do Satan's bidding.