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Originally posted by Seaver
Hm... this sounds like minority to me. But while I was physically beaten, verbally put down, and denied jobs because of my skin color... it does not matter because my skin color is the same as most rich people.
Do you realize how insulting that is to me? That these things done to me are somehow ok because many others the same color are doing ok?
Have you ever been called racist names?
Have you ever flat out been told you arent going to get hired because you're the wrong skin color?
Have you ever been assaulted because you're the wrong color?
Have you? If you have you'd have the slightest clue what I'm talking about and you wouldn't just write it off as being ok. My family has NEVER done any injustices to blacks or mexicans, yet this is continually written off as ok because we owe them or something.
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I never said anything about your past being "ok," but I sure am surprised you didn't learn any empathy given your past experiences.
Now reread my and BuDDah's ethnicities, the definition of a minority group that I posted above, and a history book. Then explain to me how you can come here and post a flop piece of shit as to whether we have ever been assaulted or denied a job on the basis of skin color.
To be frank, I don't really give a shit how insulted you are right now because you constructed an argument out of thin air so you would be insulted. So go cry to your momma, maybe she cares...maybe she doesn't.
I bet you don't live where you are verbally assaulted and denied shit every day anymore, do you?
Probably not, because you could move your ass somewhere else--and it wasn't likely very far. However, I don't deny that Hispanics aren't becoming a dominant force in our culture--just be sure not to whine about it when the time comes after the tables are reversed. This isn't to argue that it's ok, but that you shouldn't be an asshat about it because it's been a long time coming.
And BTW:
Running through your childhood, let's just get some things straight for the faithful readers:
Why don't you enlighten us as to whether you ever called the police on the hooligans who assaulted you.
Or rather, start basic: what color were your teachers? What about your principle?
If you ever filed a complaint, what color were the cops who showed up?
I don't know all those answers, but lets drive it home:
Maybe your problem becomes a criminal case. Would you mind telling us the color of the District Attorney? How 'bout the Public Defender? Any guesses as to who would be sitting on the bench? I'm just curious as to what color you think the faces in the jury box would be?
Meanwhile, describe your congressperson (or congress
man, more likely, since discrimination cuts a large swathe), your governor, and finally, (one we all know) your president.
I'm curious just what you learned during that tumultuous, tramatic experience in high school. What did you read in history, science, and civics classes? Any insightful comments on how your peers felt while your teachers paraded white accomplishment after another, page after page?
Did you read how courageous whites slaughtered the savage injuns? I can't imagine you learning that whites were regarded as savages and my ancestors were the Americans--or who
really scalped who. I'd be very surprised if you learned where "our" founding fathers came up with the "innovative" concept of this country's current government structure (hint: native tribes co-existed for hundreds of years and utilized congresses long before common white foke were allowed to read).
What about manifest destiny or the white man's burden, did you learn those insightful tidbits?
After you answer all these questions, would you explain to us whether you were part of the "dominant" group or the "minority" group?