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Mael · 10-15-2003, 05:08 PM

it's people.

so we all know that the worlds got problems, and people just aren't making it any better. i try to keep an open mind about stuff, and not let past experiences cloud my judgements and thoughts. but last night, i had a conversation with a black janitor where i work. we talked for about half an hour, and it amazed how jaded he is against the white world. everything was white people do want black people to succeed, white people are afraid of black kids, white people are the ones who brought cocaine to the states and started selling it to black people, anytime something that black people create starts being able to make money the white people steal it (ie. eminem rapping), black people can't move into any neighborhood they want because white people won't sell to them... and on and on...

now, i don't mean this to be an anti-black people thread, it's the mentality that he has which i think a lot of people have... and that's two things... one is a lack of personal responsibility (ie. it's white peoples fault that black people are hooked on crack because they started selling coke to blacks who then turned it into crack); two, from what i've seen, today's world isn't the same as it was 30-40 years ago, but his mentality is that the world is against black people and trying to keep them down.

i think this everyone out to get me mentality is shared by everyone. if you're white, it's what you can lose to the minorities, if your black, it's white people are keeping you down, if your asian, well, i don't know... but the arabs are after the jews, and jews are after land and the palestianianiaianaianns.... and on and on...

anyways, i try to keep a pretty perceptive eye about the world, and i don't see it as being nearly as bad as this guy made it out to be, that he's just become so jaded and used to having whites be a problem, that he now sees whites as the reason all these things happen. kinda like how when oklahoma city fed building was bombed, it was first thought it was arabs that did it. and i can never truly know what it's like to be a black man, but that doesn't mean that i can't have a pretty good idea about it.

oh, as another example, i just saw a video in a class about female sexuality in advertising, and how sex and the "ideal" woman is used in advertising to sell stuff and tell us waht we want, etc... this lady that was speaking in it, showed a bunch of ads and made comments on what their message was, sometimes verbal, sometimes not, but when she showed the ads, i didn't really see it taht way... more like, she looks for it so much, that it's now everywhere she looks whether its real or not.

so what do you all think?

10-15-2003, 05:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Mael Banned Location: The Hell I Created.	I figured out what's wrong with the world... it's people. so we all know that the worlds got problems, and people just aren't making it any better. i try to keep an open mind about stuff, and not let past experiences cloud my judgements and thoughts. but last night, i had a conversation with a black janitor where i work. we talked for about half an hour, and it amazed how jaded he is against the white world. everything was white people do want black people to succeed, white people are afraid of black kids, white people are the ones who brought cocaine to the states and started selling it to black people, anytime something that black people create starts being able to make money the white people steal it (ie. eminem rapping), black people can't move into any neighborhood they want because white people won't sell to them... and on and on... now, i don't mean this to be an anti-black people thread, it's the mentality that he has which i think a lot of people have... and that's two things... one is a lack of personal responsibility (ie. it's white peoples fault that black people are hooked on crack because they started selling coke to blacks who then turned it into crack); two, from what i've seen, today's world isn't the same as it was 30-40 years ago, but his mentality is that the world is against black people and trying to keep them down. i think this everyone out to get me mentality is shared by everyone. if you're white, it's what you can lose to the minorities, if your black, it's white people are keeping you down, if your asian, well, i don't know... but the arabs are after the jews, and jews are after land and the palestianianiaianaianns.... and on and on... anyways, i try to keep a pretty perceptive eye about the world, and i don't see it as being nearly as bad as this guy made it out to be, that he's just become so jaded and used to having whites be a problem, that he now sees whites as the reason all these things happen. kinda like how when oklahoma city fed building was bombed, it was first thought it was arabs that did it. and i can never truly know what it's like to be a black man, but that doesn't mean that i can't have a pretty good idea about it. oh, as another example, i just saw a video in a class about female sexuality in advertising, and how sex and the "ideal" woman is used in advertising to sell stuff and tell us waht we want, etc... this lady that was speaking in it, showed a bunch of ads and made comments on what their message was, sometimes verbal, sometimes not, but when she showed the ads, i didn't really see it taht way... more like, she looks for it so much, that it's now everywhere she looks whether its real or not. so what do you all think?