A Discussion on racism

Shell HAS to keep her nose above water because there is a bee on it! But, to her point; we may choose to ignore some things, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

In Baltimore yesterday the court awarded the late Freddie Gray's family 6.5 million dollars. Not bad, considering his arrest record.

I'm talking about just one person now. If you research it, you'll understand what I mean. Gray didn't care about "Black lives Mattering"; he was too busy dealing narcotics to young Black kids. Their lives didn't matter to him.

As long as we are treating one group differently from another, we are being racist.

I do agree that once you go to jail, it turns into a cycle. People out of prison are rarely reformed and because of their records, they can't get jobs, so they turn back to crime. What else are they going to do with their lives?

My husband has an extended family member who purposefully commits a crime whenever he leaves jail because he's been in jail for decades and the "real" world scares him. We have all these things now that we didn't have before he first went to jail, like computers and smart phones and jail just makes more sense to him.

It's hard to say what "one" thing causes anyone to commit a crime because it can be a variety of things depending on the person. I've just known enough people in poverty and struggled some myself to know what kind of mentality it can give you. How desperate it can make you. That's why I mentioned it.

I thought my position on this was quite clear.......

Studies have shown that people raised within crime families,
neighborhoods, etc. have a much greater propensity to commit crime.

Minorities often argue or ignore these as inaccurate and racist.

These are social challenges.

Whites cannot simply blame crimes on minorities, as a minority and not a white issue also.

Non-whites must admit minorities commit more certain crimes than others.

If we are willing to work together, non prejudicial, we may be able
to make real strides toward crime prevention than marching and burning
properties, after the fact.

Police need more, and more continual training.

The police see horrible incidental crimes, often daily.
Over time, they become cynical, even vengeful.
They need more help than they are getting.

Depression will do that.

People leading two lives, one of which cannot be exposed,
are sure to turn against themselves eventually.

I never researched it but I'm sure the generational suicide rate is
off the charts Mup.

I just believe that people are people, that is all there is to it.

We are all just here trying to get along as best we can, and not always doing a good job of it....

Speaking of racism...?

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamilah-brock-nypd-bmw_55f2c9aae4b063ecbfa3e60d?section=women&ncid

I don't blame her for thinking her race played a part in this. What do you all think?

I am pretty disgusted by their reasoning for putting her in a psych ward. And the three questions... wow! All were true, but they just could not believe her. What will their excuse be? Some people do not even realize they have racial bias behind their decisions. Bipolar my butt!

SORRY FOR THE LONG POST JEN

Like i said i have no idea what to post here and i may be off topic, but im going to say my mind, i may be totally of topic, but here is my input on racism;

I believe (and please correct me if you disagree)
White people don’t tend to call the racist card as much as black people, Asians etc.
There was a guy at school, he was Indian.
Once called my friend a white peice of shit,
So my friend replied sarcastically.
So what colour shit are you?
He did mean it as a joke being the class clown, but the Indian guy threw a huff.
The teacher over heard and threw him out for racist.
They both got a telling off for swearing, but only my friend got a telling off for racism.
Apparently calling someone white isn’t racist, but calling someone black or brown is.

I was once asked at work not to refer to someone as ‘black’
My boss asked what nationality they were, the country they are from.
I said i have no idea, but they were black.
I was asked not to say that again (by a random person in the office) as its racist.
So why can we be called white, because we are, but we cant call a black person Black.
Now i don’t use the word, but if i was to refer to a black person as a *INSTER THE N WORD* i would be killed or something, yet thats what they call each other??

I live in a very multi cultural area.
Infact it is very cultural, there are more mosques that Church Of England,
More foreign shops and take aways than there is British shops,
Most of our fast food places are halal now (including sub way where your bacon is now turkey rashers)
On St Georges day we cant fly our union jack flag
At world cup time we cant fly our England flags
At Christmas most of our light displays now say happy holidays,
And in schools they don’t say happy Christmas,
Ba ba black sheep is racist so therefore removed from most schools.
Its offensive to show/wear our poppy’s.
Schools now even serve halal bcos non halal is offensive,
but halal offends some British people,
i have read about people who have complained that they dont agree with halal and the way they kill their animals, but that’s okay, we just have to deal with it.
I read about a Muslim family that protested to have a Irish travellers grave removed from the side of their family member, because having a god worshipper next to them is offensive!
YET;
I saw a Asian guy wearing a outfit which was covered in the union jack flag, a Indian woman driving a Mini cooper with the union jack flag on her car.
They build their mosques 20 foot tall right next to our COE,
They fly their EID flags and posters in celebration of EID they wish each other ‘Eid Mubrack’ and expect it to not offend us.
They don’t celebrate, infact find offense in Christmas, yet taxi drivers (most of which are Asians) charge double, if not fare and half, on Christmas day although they don’t celebrate it.

Look at all the rapes that were going on, kept secret etc. And why? Because we would have been branded racist for accusing Asians of rape when they obviously don’t have sex before marriage. being the majorly religious people they are.

So why are we not allowed to do the things we have done, that we should do , like to do etc. Bcos it causes offence, yet they can do anything they want because they are different? Why are we always told not to treat people differently yet theres an exeption for people of different religion.

I for one wouldn’t be happy if M went to school and they served only halal food, i don’t mind it, it doesn’t offend me, ill confess i really don’t care how the animal is killed, its always killed so how they do it doesn’t bother me, id just rather not know and think about it, i eat from Indian take aways which serve halal, but i expect to be served halal meat from a Indian take away, but i do not expect to go to an American food chain like subway, and be told ‘we don’t have bacon as such, we have turkey rashers instead, but they are the same’ the last time i checked turkey and bacon were not the same!! (i asked them to start my sandwich again, i wanted bacon not turkey so now ill have something different)

As we have more foreign shops in my area, its harder for a white British person to get a job, it has been admitted to myself that Asian people prefer to employ other Asian people, black people prefer to employ other black people, there is 2 polish shops either side of my work, they wont employ a white British person!

Now the one thing that really does get my back up, and i apologise for any offence i could cause, i can not stand people from other countries speaking their own language, i mean in your home fire away, but i don’t think its right them talking in a different language to us in a work place, walking the street, in a que at the shop etc. It really annoys me.
At work we have alot of foreign tenants, alot Romanian or Spanish atm. All of them come in the office, speak to me in really good English yet carry on a convo in their language, now i don’t know what they are saying, what they could be planning, how do i know they aren’t planning on attacking me, stealing money, or anything? How do i know the Romanian person walking towards me looking at me but speaking to his friend in Romanian, isn’t planning on snatching the pram out of my hands? Stealing my bag or even kidnapping me? I don’t because i cant understand what they are saying.

B you bring up some valid points.

Racism is definitely a two way street.

That is disgraceful. The car was 11 years old too. Surely not particularly valuable.