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"Not every white person who has a scuffle with a black person is racist."

Available for free use and quotations! Just please don't claim it as your own. Please note that I reserve the right to reply to any comments posted here regardless of who they were originally addressing and when they were originally posted.

Racism comes in more than one form.

rac·ism noun \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\

: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

Reverse racism is a phenomenon in which discrimination, sometimes officially sanctioned, against a dominant or formerly dominant racial or other group representative of the majority in a particular society takes place, for a variety of reasons, often initially as an attempt at redressing past wrongs.

The term "reverse racism" can be misleading. I think a better term would be "response racism," but I'm not the person charge of coining terms.

More often than not, reverse racism is in the form of giving special benefits or opportunities to people who belong to a group which has been under-privileged in the past. In effect, you are essentially committing a racist act by giving preference to one person over another because of their race, religion, or ethnicity, rather than their personal merit, skills, or knowledge.

"That black kid started a fight with that white kid but we're only going to suspend the white kid because we don't want to be racist against black people." - Liberal Principal (or Conservative Principal scared of a lawsuit)

"Wait, isn't that reverse racism?" - White kid

"Shut up, you're suspended too!" - Principal

This deviation lays it all out quite nicely: caciquecaribe.deviantart.com/a…

The more I learn about the Brown/Wilson debate in Ferguson and the similar story in Florida and the riots that have ensued because a man was not sentenced to death, the more obvious it becomes how hypocritical the world has turned over race. What's important is that a boy was shot, not that an African American boy was shot. How does Brown's skin color make him any more important than he already is? He was a human being, just like the rest of us. It was tragic what happened no matter what his skin color was. People have assumed that Wilson is racist, and who knows, he might be, but the fact that people want him to be executed on the basis of their assumptions is appalling, not to mention highly illogical.

People who express concern about the "hundreds" of black people killed by cops conveniently forget that cops kill roughly twice as many white people as black people: www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-… . The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to Mac Donald in a speech at Hillsdale College. Also, blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops, according to FBI data. To drive the point home, the same FBI data shows that black and Hispanic cops are about twice as likely to shoot a black person than a white cop is. So is black-on-black violence racism or discrimination?

I find it very disturbing how people don't care when a white kid is shot by someone, accident or not. Take the story of Christopher Roupe. Chances are you haven't even heard of him. The media gave this white boy precious little coverage, and yet Mike Brown stole the nation's attention for months and the verdict to not execute Wilson resulted in riots in the streets and demands to completely eradicate the police force. www.nydailynews.com/news/natio… , www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-… Christopher was just one of the many tragedies that take place very year, but we don't hear about all of them. We only hear about African Americans and women. Please tell me how that kind of selection is not racist and sexist.

Here's a list of 6 of Black Lives Matter's demands: policy.m4bl.org/. Notice how they make them all extremely vague? That's a tactic that people use when they want something extreme but don't want the world to know. But even then, you can tell that some of the things they're asking for are very extreme. What we see over and over again is "end the incarceration of black people," which, if taken literally, would mean that all criminals who are black must be released from prison, and it would be illegal in the future to arrest, imprison, or defend yourself against a black person. Indeed: we are already seeing these demands being vocalized: www.angrypatriotmovement.com/b… . Essentially, Black Lives Matter wants black people to be above the law. This would explain why Black Lives Matter is angry that cops dare defend their lives against a person of black descent.

Did you know that most college universities offer special scholarships exclusively to African Americans and Hispanics simply because of their skin color, while other light-skinned races, such as whites and Asians, get no such assistance? There are also scholarships exclusively available to women. www.scholarships.com/financial… , www.college-financial-aid-advi… , www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01… , www.blackexcel.org/link4.htm , www.aamu.edu/Admissions/fincia… , www.collegegrantsandscholarshi… , www.educationconnection.com/la… You could get over $10,000 just for being black! In 2014, over $50 billion was given to African American students purely on the basis of their skin color. Look me in the eyes and tell me that is not special treatment. Haven't we been insisting that we're equal to all races in all ways? If we're equal, why the special attention?

If a white person so much as raises his or her voice against an African American person, people scream racism. If an African American person is proud of their heritage, that's fine with everyone, including me. But if a white person is proud of their heritage, people scream racism. No African American alive in the U.S. has been legally enslaved, so why do people who have no memory of an event insist by living by it? White people don't want to enslave people of color. Why can't we all live in peace? I thought we wanted to coexist. Or does that coexistence exclude whites?

The answer to discrimination is not to give privileges and exemptions to minorities, but rather to give aid to ANYONE who needs it, regardless of color. If one race of people tends to need the aid more than others, that's fine! It means they're being helped get back on their feet (that's the idea, anyway.) But it is wrong to exclude people of other races, including majority races, from that same aid. To do so is reverse racism.

Does racism exist? Yes, of course it does. Anyone can be racist. I hate racism in all its forms, but I, for one, know that it exists in more than one form. I can't speak for everyone, but I think of all races as equal with me (Asian, white, black, Hispanic, you name it), so I won't treat one better than the other.

Additional ideas: www.youtube.com/watch?t=180&am…

And before anyone starts freaking out calling me a white supremacist, please be aware that I am not blue-blooded. I'm a mutt. I've got lots of genes from lots of places.

Description
"Not every white person who has a scuffle with a black person is racist."

Available for free use and quotations! Just please don't claim it as your own. Please note that I reserve the right to reply to any comments posted here regardless of who they were originally addressing and when they were originally posted.

Racism comes in more than one form.

rac·ism noun \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\

: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

Reverse racism is a phenomenon in which discrimination, sometimes officially sanctioned, against a dominant or formerly dominant racial or other group representative of the majority in a particular society takes place, for a variety of reasons, often initially as an attempt at redressing past wrongs.

The term "reverse racism" can be misleading. I think a better term would be "response racism," but I'm not the person charge of coining terms.

More often than not, reverse racism is in the form of giving special benefits or opportunities to people who belong to a group which has been under-privileged in the past. In effect, you are essentially committing a racist act by giving preference to one person over another because of their race, religion, or ethnicity, rather than their personal merit, skills, or knowledge.

"That black kid started a fight with that white kid but we're only going to suspend the white kid because we don't want to be racist against black people." - Liberal Principal (or Conservative Principal scared of a lawsuit)

"Wait, isn't that reverse racism?" - White kid

"Shut up, you're suspended too!" - Principal

This deviation lays it all out quite nicely: caciquecaribe.deviantart.com/a…

The more I learn about the Brown/Wilson debate in Ferguson and the similar story in Florida and the riots that have ensued because a man was not sentenced to death, the more obvious it becomes how hypocritical the world has turned over race. What's important is that a boy was shot, not that an African American boy was shot. How does Brown's skin color make him any more important than he already is? He was a human being, just like the rest of us. It was tragic what happened no matter what his skin color was. People have assumed that Wilson is racist, and who knows, he might be, but the fact that people want him to be executed on the basis of their assumptions is appalling, not to mention highly illogical.

People who express concern about the "hundreds" of black people killed by cops conveniently forget that cops kill roughly twice as many white people as black people: www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-… . The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to Mac Donald in a speech at Hillsdale College. Also, blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops, according to FBI data. To drive the point home, the same FBI data shows that black and Hispanic cops are about twice as likely to shoot a black person than a white cop is. So is black-on-black violence racism or discrimination?

I find it very disturbing how people don't care when a white kid is shot by someone, accident or not. Take the story of Christopher Roupe. Chances are you haven't even heard of him. The media gave this white boy precious little coverage, and yet Mike Brown stole the nation's attention for months and the verdict to not execute Wilson resulted in riots in the streets and demands to completely eradicate the police force. www.nydailynews.com/news/natio… , www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-… Christopher was just one of the many tragedies that take place very year, but we don't hear about all of them. We only hear about African Americans and women. Please tell me how that kind of selection is not racist and sexist.

Here's a list of 6 of Black Lives Matter's demands: policy.m4bl.org/. Notice how they make them all extremely vague? That's a tactic that people use when they want something extreme but don't want the world to know. But even then, you can tell that some of the things they're asking for are very extreme. What we see over and over again is "end the incarceration of black people," which, if taken literally, would mean that all criminals who are black must be released from prison, and it would be illegal in the future to arrest, imprison, or defend yourself against a black person. Indeed: we are already seeing these demands being vocalized: www.angrypatriotmovement.com/b… . Essentially, Black Lives Matter wants black people to be above the law. This would explain why Black Lives Matter is angry that cops dare defend their lives against a person of black descent.

Did you know that most college universities offer special scholarships exclusively to African Americans and Hispanics simply because of their skin color, while other light-skinned races, such as whites and Asians, get no such assistance? There are also scholarships exclusively available to women. www.scholarships.com/financial… , www.college-financial-aid-advi… , www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01… , www.blackexcel.org/link4.htm , www.aamu.edu/Admissions/fincia… , www.collegegrantsandscholarshi… , www.educationconnection.com/la… You could get over $10,000 just for being black! In 2014, over $50 billion was given to African American students purely on the basis of their skin color. Look me in the eyes and tell me that is not special treatment. Haven't we been insisting that we're equal to all races in all ways? If we're equal, why the special attention?

If a white person so much as raises his or her voice against an African American person, people scream racism. If an African American person is proud of their heritage, that's fine with everyone, including me. But if a white person is proud of their heritage, people scream racism. No African American alive in the U.S. has been legally enslaved, so why do people who have no memory of an event insist by living by it? White people don't want to enslave people of color. Why can't we all live in peace? I thought we wanted to coexist. Or does that coexistence exclude whites?

The answer to discrimination is not to give privileges and exemptions to minorities, but rather to give aid to ANYONE who needs it, regardless of color. If one race of people tends to need the aid more than others, that's fine! It means they're being helped get back on their feet (that's the idea, anyway.) But it is wrong to exclude people of other races, including majority races, from that same aid. To do so is reverse racism.

Does racism exist? Yes, of course it does. Anyone can be racist. I hate racism in all its forms, but I, for one, know that it exists in more than one form. I can't speak for everyone, but I think of all races as equal with me (Asian, white, black, Hispanic, you name it), so I won't treat one better than the other.

Additional ideas: www.youtube.com/watch?t=180&am…

And before anyone starts freaking out calling me a white supremacist, please be aware that I am not blue-blooded. I'm a mutt. I've got lots of genes from lots of places.