I went to a very VERY liberal “woke” art college and I remember there was this one Asian girl who I thought was cool, cute, and wanted to be her friend. One night I was talking to this guy from her clique and I said “hey can u ask x if she wants to be friends? I feel like I never get the chance to talk to her!” Lol I was intimidated by her. He got back to me a few days later and literally said “she doesn’t want to get to know you because you’re white.” That was the ONLY reason. She knew NOTHING about me. Wouldn’t give me a chance to be friends. I was shocked and hurt because wtf?? But then i was told i have white fragility etc.. I get that not everyone deserves your friendship and vice versa, but to completely write off a potential friendship because of my skin color is wild. When I look back on it, my hurt was valid. Not “fragile”.
There is no white fragility. Your hurt was legit. Just imagine the opposite. Someone white tells another person he/she doesnt want to be friend with a nice person just because he/she is black,brown or yellow(far east asian). How would that sound? Would they tell the non white person he/she is just fragile? Or would they call the white person a racist? The hypocrisy is strong with many so called "POC"s.
Sometimes when people say they don't want to be around racists, they only mean white people. They don't realize what they're saying is actually racist, and that makes them a racist by their standards.
What’s funny is people have been messing up the term racism for a while now with the word prejudice. I believe it’s not a coincidence and we were being driven in this direction for a pretty long while now. I want to add that I believe the swap is more useful due to what it implies and it’s the lefts favorite thing to do. That’s why the addition of PoC was so important. It means everyone except Whites at this point. Even Asians got pulled in despite being the most successful and even whiter than most whites skin tone wise. African American is another term that was pushed. The accepted vernacular has swapped about 4 times in my lifetime, and this is the most ridiculous one. Everyone’s favorite new model for this is Elon Musk.
@@robwaters8848 This truth. Hateful people reverse the order of the words and reinstall their "new term" to somehow take on a whole "new" meaning that somehow fits their new narrative 🙄
Batzzz, well, you are not in the good company of Amala with your view because her example of racism in India as embodied in their racial caste system is the very definition of structural racism, just as the sister argued and Amala reinforced with her example. Oops!
@@jeffw5733 yeah... no. racism has always been racism. it wasn't until 2006 when woke people started saying this "privilege + power" stuff to absolve woke bIack people from the racism they spewed at whites in the name of social justice. as a bIack man, its insidious & sickening.
As a Cuban American woman with white skin, I have experienced racism from all skins and cultures of people. My favorite is when a lantin American or Hispanic person speaks shit about me in Spanish, then I respond to them in Spanish. Just gold to see that facial expression shift. From confidence to oh shit what did I do.
Now that’s something I can relate to, though not to the same extent. I’m half-Brazilian from my dad’s side, but both he and I are fairly pale. So I’m often told I’m “not Latino” and that I “don’t count” (mostly by other white people) because I’m “clearly white”.
How about you go to Miami and they call you a tourist for not speaking Spanish I kid you not. How about you go to the dentist in Orlando and Spanish TV is on and nobody will speak to you in English. How about you rent a car in Orlando and the EMPLOYEES can't speak English. Never STOPS.
@huitrecouture I know exactly what you're talking about. My husband is American and doesn't speak Spanish. We went to Miami on vacation to vist my family. And everywhere we went everyone spoke to him in spanish. And he's there telling everyone I don't speak spanish. My grandmother and my self were his translators.
I'm a White man, married to a lovely Black lady for 40+ years (Since I was 19 in the Air Force). 2 daughters, a grandson and granddaughter. In my experience (and I have literally been all over this world), It seems that people often look for ANY reason to prove they are better than one another. Race, Religion, Sex, place of origin, hair color, handedness, you name it.
Those (anywhere in the world) who seek validation by insinuating superiority based on any immutable characteristic without superior credentials, come off as petty, and banal, and oftentimes stupid. . .which is counter to what they are trying to achieve. This is the fatal flaw of any form of bigotry that comes from weak minded people by definition - their failure to thrive. . .with the exceptions of sociopaths and psychopaths hillary joe clones
BAH. The Navy wouldn't even allow me to join and be recruited because the Navy particularly as far a branches of the military do not allow people with certain dissabilities.
When I was a little girl I lived in all black neighborhood. We were the only white family within miles. I went to an all black school when I was in the fifth grade the three black teachers drew straws to see who would get me. The only white kid in that entire fifth grade class. How I found this out was when I walked into Mr. Walker's class he told me you're only in my class cause I drew the short straw. Within 2 weeks somebody stole my books out of my desk. The classroom had a class set of books and your own personal text books. When I told him about this he said no you took them home and lost them. You can use the books in the classroom but you're not taking them home. So I had to struggle to get all my work done within the class time. Cause he made sure I wasn't taking home books and at the end of the year my books showed back up in the return pile of books from the other kids. When I showed him he said I told you you had them at home you just found them. At the end of the school day a girl came up to me. She sat behind me in class and said that she stole my books at the beginning of the year. She did it cause she wanted to make sure I failed the fifth grade. The joke was on her because Walker always sent me out of the room every time we had a state required test. He got into trouble for not allowing me to take state required tests. So he asked my reading ed teacher to have me take the tests. I was listening at the door he told her you got to get her done today because my job is on the line. And that's how I passed the fifth grade even though most of my assignments were incomplete.
That's about how it went for me. There wasn't even 10 white kids in my entire school. I got spit on and beat up until my dad had enough (after they stole my good winter coat because we weren't allowed to go to our lockers but twice a day) and no one would do anything about it. They wouldn't let me keep it... My dad finally said to stand up to them. He said, i don't care if you get suspended. He said they're all cowards. He was right but i wasn't even almost going to try because if you fought one you fought them all.. at the same time. I've yet to see a fight with black kids that it's ever fair. My kid is supposed to start hs here because while i made it out of this shit hole by then we came back to help my grandparents die. They're gone now and I've got a month left and am almost willing to sell everything i own or burn it to the ground rather than let her go another year here. The schools here are a joke. They're big day care centers meant to babysit and that is all. Most of the teachers are just trying to survive. They don't give a fuck. My kid could sit on her thumbs for 3 more years and still be at the top of her class. Of course when we move she'll be behind if i don't supplement her education. Racism, in my experience, is bred by experience. I only feel the way i do when i come back to this state. It isn't the same elsewhere
I live in Sweden. Where I lived as a kid there was very few black kids. At least in my school. When the first black kids came to my school I adored them as did the rest of us. We were so curious about them. I was very very blonde as when I was a child and they had never seen hair as blonde as mine. So we stood there in the school yard petting each others hair. I promise you from the bottom of my heart, there was no ill or mean intent. We were just getting to know each other.
Yea why is it that countries where the indigenous people are white have to be 'diverse' I don't see Africa inviting white or asia inviting whites to be more diverse ain't that strange
@@abbeyjane5014 They didn't have a great history with white military occupation, did they? And there are many white tourists either. I don't recall much of African military in Europe apart from Spain during the middle ages. If I were being occupied by foreign military for hundreds of years, I wouldn't like them either.
Jimmy knows what’s going on. I’m tired of this weird twist on racism. I’ve been called racist simply because I am white. I felt that was racist because I had not done anything to earn that title except be white. 🤔 I grew up in a multi racial family and didn’t see race until society told me I was different than my family. I don’t understand racism no matter who it’s pointed at. It’s frustrating to me to be considered racist just because I’m white.
I grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in st. louis. My parents couldn't afford to send me to a private school so i had to go to a public one. There was less than 15% whites in the whole school. We couldn't even walk down the street without being told we "didn't belong there" and being threatened. As a child, I got called every racist thing in the book, by kids and adults. Had kids throw rocks at me and hit me with sticks at recess. I complained, but the teachers looked away. Got so bad, my mom had to sit up there to watch me. I got into it with a girl on my bus because there were no more empty seats and she didn't wanna sit next to "white trash". I told her she was racist, and I was laughed at by everyone because everyone knows "blacks can't be racists". I had to stand at the back of the bus for the rest of the year because everyone refused to let me sit with them. I was so depressed growing up I barely left the house. The one time I went to ride my bike at 10yrs old, I had a group of grown men chase me down, knock me off my bike and take my bike. I had one of the highest gpas in my graduating class but wasn't offered assistance or a scholarship because Im white, but i knew a few of my peers that got a full ride and had way lower gpas but they were black. I've been denied jobs because I'm white and they didn't hide it either. Straight up told me it was because I'm white. Being white isn't a privilege.
I didn't have it as bad as you, but a lot of this rings true for me growing up as well. (Portland, OR) but honestly the gaslighting and being unable to give voice to your own experiences is the worst part. To be told you have "white fragility" if you even talk about it (because you didn't feel privileged to be harassed by a group trying to spit on you, beat you up or take your stuff while they say things like "get that dumb white girl" or "No you can't play with her, I don't want no white girl in my house" or whatever?) Really hard not to let that affect you. Sorry you- or anyone- had to go through that. It wasn't right to do it back in the day, it's not okay now- regardless of who's dumping on whom. These kinds of things will only really ever get fixed if we ALL treat each other with repect.
@rudedude83 people been sharing their stories for years but blacks claim they are just "prejudice" and all whites were "colonizers" and "slave owners. And if your "skin ain't dark enough, then you can't be black- even if half of your family is". I went to an all black highschool with 5 white kids. I got a scholarship and my first name is my black great great grandma's name. They pulled my scholarship based on my skin color. I refuse to go to college bc it's over rated unnecessary debt. Did you know you can read the college books and just pay to take a test and get the same college credit and not go to class..? It's called a clep test. 😂😂😂 Oh I wanted to add. I lived in a expensive white neighborhood but our county had a law about busing white students to the hood school for their quota. Early 90s. 🤷♀️
Only white kid in a school for troubled kids I constantly had to fight they stopped messing with me but never accepted me but I'm ,6 3 245 so I wasn't an easy target
A girl in my class always likes to say “You can’t be racist to a majority, only minorities. So, you can’t be racist to white people.” Also, I will say something or do something dumb and she just simply says, “It’s because you’re white.” She herself is Philipino, and we are friends, but I have slowly started to realize how she is beginning to be racist towards me.
They live in a white majority country and complain about white people, she could easily move to her country and be around a majority of her people but won't because things are better here. If you were to look at things in a world perspective, white people are the minority but they love to live here and play the victim. Nothing but hypocritical crybabies looking to collect victim points all while being more racist than those they accuse of it!
My grandfather was a police officer for 20 years, the last 5 years as a detective, he had to retire from that work due to my sister’s birth, the child abuse he saw on a day to day basis kept making him see my sister’s face on all these victims and he knew it would lead him to regrettable actions eventually, so he retired. Few of us see what these officers see every day, it is a brutal job.
Excuses imo 24 years with dangerous troubled youth made me more empathetic not less ….more caring …Not less…..more try to make a difference …not run away ….come on wat pu$$ys
@@hopeswanson4512 thank you, sadly he passed about 6-7 years ago, It feels much longer, he was in his 80’s and had 4 children, 9 grand children, and 4 great grandchildren when he passed, he was well loved.
It happens to parents who love their children and love children. They are so innocent and you kept help but imagine your child enduring it and it’s heart wrenching. I job shadowed an ER doctor in an inner city and I couldn’t handle the things happening to children. It was too much for me.
As a kid I was one of few white kids in a black neighborhood.. I was often attacked because I was white. But also I had freinds who defended me who were black. It taught me to judge on actions.
I was called racist by a group of black people because I said one of them looked like a black celebrity. I was 12.. and I didn’t see color I just saw the similarities they had. I thought I was being nice, giving a compliment.. but him and his friends took that as racism and started calling me names and calling out my whiteness. Even my friends who were with me were like “omg that was so racist” and their faces looked so shocked. Because I was 12 I was embarrassed and actually felt that I did something wrong. Looking back.. no i didn’t 😂 it’s not racist to say “hey, you look a lot like this celebrity”. I didn’t see color growing up until that moment. From that moment on I have always watched what I say around everyone 😭
@@nelsonfelix932 sorry darling but I’m not. This man who called me this is a disgusting human being. I’m married and that is why I wouldn’t date him. That didn’t make me a racist but it made him a race hussler!
I'm white and the black girls in my elementary school class asked to touch my hair all the time. Actually I made some friends that way so it was fine! It never bothered me.
I personally wouldn’t let a bunch of random people touch my hair BUT obviously a *lot* of people have questions about textured hair! It’s very natural to wonder what it feels like or what kinds of styles are possible with that type of hair. It can be a great learning and bonding experience, and it simply pushes people away when you shut them down and make it feel like it’s not safe to ask people about their daily lives, what they do to take care of it, etc.
It’s because you’re not living your life as a pretend victim trying to find anything to be offended by to make yourself feel like you deserve more social points and attention.
I was arguing with a guy online about the whole “white people can’t experience racism”. He of course claimed that there has to be some kind of power being held, so I pointed out all the black people that have been in positions of power: politicians, judges, lawyers, police, etc, etc. That’s when he stopped responding.
White people can't experience racism because racism was created for their benefit. We're not talking about individuals, we're talking about structures. In a commerical in South Africa, treseme (check the spelling yourself) described black hair as dry, frizzy and damaged and white hair as normal, and south Africa is majority black. In this context, Black people have never had that kind of power over white people to determine beauty standards
You missed president xD that should have put him in his place, he was literally chosen by the country to take the highest position of power there is(political at least)
EVERYBODY can be racist!!!! 💯💯💯 I loved what she said "systemically, racism looks different in USA for white people vs others. On an individual level, anybody can be racist and experience racism" 💯💯💯
47:00 To this girl’s point about how her difficulty in getting a job is somehow evidence that white privilege exists and that getting a job is harder for her because of her race, I too graduated college at the top of my class during the pandemic, and I too couldn’t get a job for months, and I too had to go completely outside of my field just to get one, and I’m white. Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t because of racism that some college grads can’t get jobs right away or in their field but because of the economy, job market, and majors that don’t tend to lead toward careers that are easy to get into right away.
Some time ago I listened to a video by a black man who was a millionaire talk to a guy who said he was having too many racist experiences with the job market... he probed the guy to find out what might have happened in the situations he named. At the end and in frustration he told the guy, I think the problem is you just are not a very nice person. If I don't like you, then thats probably why other people don't like you too.
I graduated at the top of my class in 2010 and I am white, I too did not get a job for 9 months after I graduated because of my race. White Privilege? hmmmm Must have missed that one. I wonder why my boss is a black woman? She must have borrowed her friends white privilege card.
Also, especially recently, a whole load of these "degrees" that kids in college are getting, are entirely worthless in life and the workplace. People spend years studying media studies or fashion then complain when all the engineers get jobs right away and they end up packing in a factory.. and just label it as "I have a degree in my field" no, you have a worthless degree in a useless field with very few opportunities and that's your problem, it was poor life choices nothing to do with race or skin colour in many cases.
- I really can't imagine a job currently in America that a college graduate would be going after, that wouldn't be actively favoring a minority applicant. Its gross that we are that shallow and self flaggelating of a people to have quotas and racial hiring preferences, but its seriously embarrassing that the communities that are going through their accademic lives on easy mode are blind to it, and so sadly incapable of taking advantage of it. Its almost as bad as the indigenous youth who say they can't catch a break while university recruiters are begging to change their lives.
When I was 16 I was in a mental health treatment center. I was the only white girl there and not all, but most of the other girls there bullied me relentlessly. The staff said it was because they were “jealous” that my family came to visit me multiple times and week and often bringing gifts and stuff I needed while most of their family hadn’t visited in months. My nickname from day one was “rich bitch” and it’s funny because I’m literally lower middle class lol. Also, one of the girls got removed from the program because they found a journal of hers with a detailed plan on how to kill “the white bitch” 🙃
My partner is polynesian, not black tho, and I've had soooo many problems with female partners of his family members. All the males have been fine. But one, who was used as a pawn by these women. When I meet someone I'm usually polite and respectful. I do not get into cliques but try to give everyone a chance. However from just greeting them, and small talk when I would see them, so many of them would gossip and smear me to each other behind my back. And to my face act really nice.. After finding this out I was baffled bcoz you usually assume people do that if provoked. But nope. Apparently I was just an "uncultured, slutty, white girl, who was a danger to their men, as my friends are attractive (they would spy on my socials)... As a newcomer to the family group they had the power and I didn't. So not all white people yield unlimited power in all situations as this chick claims. Not only that I've lived in India as a blonde girl amongst an ocean of darker people. The racism was blatant and rampant. You were immediately considered a prostitute for being white. You were ripped off, sexually abused and gossiped about. This narrative "white people privelaged = bad people" doesn't take into account that there are majority non white countries that treat white people to this day, with such hate and racism. And as a white person living in that country you are anything but privelaged.
@@dreaestis She had a nickname of 'rich bitch' already and she decided to make it about ops skin colour its literally planning to hurt someone that has no difference to the others besides skin colour. Hope you are ok op!
Thank you for saying that! I went to my son's school for an event in a predominantly black area. It was probably 2nd grade. Little girl came up to me, "OOOOooooo, you're hair's so pretty. Can I touch it?" I was surprised, but said yes. She touched it. "Ooo, where'd you buy it?" It wasn't meant rude, it was honest curiosity.
My dad is a police officer. I remember when people started saying things about the police being racist, and started having riots because of them. Me and my sister would pray every single day that our father would come home. A while back I asked my dad what he thought of people calling him racist, he told me, “the only times I’ve ever been called racist was when I pulled over a black person. But that didn’t change anything. I’m doing my job, the job that I worked hard for. No one’s words will ever take that away from me”. I’m still scared every time he goes into work, but I know that my dad will do what he has to do to stay safe and keep us safe.
I hate the riots of people calling cops racist. If 1 cop does something racist it means all cops are racist. But no, they're simply doing their job to keep you safe and your loved ones. Respect to your father and my biggest prayers to you and your family. Amen.
well, the point here is: 1. a white person can't say to another white person "you are being racists" 2. we´ll need to know which was the reason he stopped that black person.. because let me tell you: being black and driving an expensive car has been a common reason to be pulled over by police... 3. the African American population in the EEUU is 13,6% in 2022 while the white is 75% , in spite of that, the number of black people shot to dead by the police is almost as high as the number of white people .... considering statistics say the percentage of white perpetrators (all offenses) is the 64%, while black ones are just the 26%, why do you think police black victims are as many as white?!.....
@@Halalium4515-of4co Yeah. I genually cant understand when a white cop handcuffs a black robber and black people on that scream at him, calling "racist" and every other word they find. I mean, what was he suposed to do? Stop in his tracks and wait for blacl person to handcuff him? Let him go? He is a Polive officer and that black guy - a ROBBER for the Gods sake! Thats his JOB!
I had to look up is it was true or not. No the American police force or system did not originate from slave catchers. Policing was a practice brought over from Britain in the original 13 colonies (constables) That's not to say that police in the American south, you know that tiny piece of America where slavery was legal did uphold that law at the time by catching and returning slaves.
I'm a 42 yrs old WM. I can honestly say they more racism now than when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. I had good friends of different races. I was treated like family by there parents. Now I get labeled a racist just cause my skin color. This young generation have never experienced real racism and I pray they never will. They need to realize every culture benefits off each other. We all learn off each other.
Ziggy B My white younger brother had mostly black friends in Jr. High and HS, and his friends came up with the term for their group of guys: 'The Oreo Posse.' They hung out at my folks' house often to play cards/shoot hoops, eat snacks, and goof around after school. Most of them came from difficult homes and several of them consider us a second family...to the point where one of the guys gave my folks a sign on it with the names of their kids and it included his name between mine and my brother's. My folks were touched deeply by this and it hangs in their living room to this day. This type of relationship (and the name they used) is not something I can imagine developing today and it is very sad. It was THEIR choice and they were having fun being brother's in spirit. My brother treasures his wedding photo with all of his groomsmen and his best man...with his one pale, light strawberry blonde face in the middle of six darker ones. They remain friends to this day, though they are spread all over the world. BTW we also both went through Jr. High and HS in the 80s & 90s. I agree it really does feel different now for my kids and for us as adults. We are all human. Our genetics are so close as to make differences negligible. The main differences arise from culture, family dynamics, income, and spiritual choices. Why do people dwell on something as divisive, and sometimes deceptive as skin color (referring to the many people who have discovered white/black roots through genetic testing, sometimes to their shock)?
When I was applying to university was when I experienced most racism. My counselor called me in and asked me what my college plans were. I told her I was going to apply to all these engineering schools and had a list. I only had one reach and like 8 normal schools based on my SAT and GPA. She blatantly told me there was no way I was gonna get into most of these schools even though I researched them all individually. I was primarily in honors classes and the white students on my level with similar gpa and lower test scores were being told by the same counselor a different story. Something about it just told me… this is weird. It wasn’t until years later I realized it may have been racist cause my school was run by white people but was primarily Latino. A lot of these teachers were okay for the most part but around senior year when I was shooting for engineering schools (and got into all of them except the reach school), the passive aggressiveness was difficult to ignore. Still why let the many or few racists you come across control your life? I’ve seen people make the stupidest decisions on account of avoiding “racists” and making themselves a victim before anything ever even happens. It’s insane. I also experienced EXTREME internalized racism from my family members. I still to this day have met anyone more racist than a lot of fellow Latinos. When people say only white people can be racist, I can just tell how ignorant they are of other cultures cause a lot of Latinos will blatantly say they don’t like black people or will make fun of kinky hair. In engineering school, I did a high school outreach program for black kids and they were already saying they were hesitant about doing engineering cause mostly white people do it, and white people are racists. I was shocked. Even if that were true, why would you limit your life because of stupid people? To me it’s just an excuse to keep yourself from moving forward in life and not having to be accountable. Just sad.
I heard from a Mexican American male friend that he was ostracized by his own family after going to college. The family thought he was trying to act white and should be thrown out of the family businesses.
As a white person with my all 30 years of life I've only ever met 1 blatantly racist white person. I just wonder why I've met so very little when all I hear is how racist so many white people are. That's been my biggest question ever since we somehow reverted back to the 1950s.
I got into an argument with a black woman who jumped in front of me at the front of a line I had just waited an hour in and because I had the AUDACITY to stand up to her and not allow her to walk all over me, she was poking me IN MY FACE, focused on my sunglasses so not technically touching me, and she told me to get my UGLY, PASTY ass out of her face. THAT was racist! Period. She didn't leave until security was called. Then she went to the end of the line. Until that, I think she would have kept baiting me until I fought with her but I was with my boyfriend and his 7 year old. I wasn't going to fight her unless she actually hit me. She absolutely was a racist though.
Back in the day when I had hair, long blond hair and I travelled to Africa, Egypt, and parts of the middle east. Everywhere I went I people wanted to touch my hair and skin! They would stare at my blue eyes. I thought it was neat because they had never seen someone like me. I enjoyed it and embraced their curiosity. Made some great connections and conversations! What a great experience it was!
When I was in school in the mid eighties I had a dear friend that was black. Her parents would not allow me to enter their house because I was white. I worry so much about my beautiful biracial granddaughter. She is so loved and protected in our family, and I worry if she will get it from both sides when she gets out into the world.
I'm a white guy and I grew up in an all black neighborhood , can some one explain to me how when i'm getting the shit beaten out of me and getting robbed (which happened a lot) by a group by 5 black guys that its not racist because i'm the one with the power?
Same 5 black guys a "lot of times" huh? Same exact dumb story all over the comments under her videos just different user name.Never happened.Next time prove your experience with racism by using a different episode of whatever tv show you got that one from.
According to their dumb way of thinking, that is no racism because its not racism by state, though its real hatred and racism by black people to no tolerate white people in their area. Its nonsense to define racism as being only possible if carried out by persons of the state and a system. Thats not how it works in practice. And even if we consider these woke definitions of racism, that would mean that each state worldwide was racist. In black societies black people have the power, in white societies white people, in yellow(far east asian) societies yellow people, in arabic states arab people....
I think there is white privilege. But it isn't like other people think it is. Is over small shit. Just like I think colored privilege exists. Just small shit that adds up, and makes people feel like it's more unfair than it actually is. Every group of people has its own privilege. Men, women, black, white, everyone. Everyone has their own privilege. And it just really shouldn't be that way. Eventually, I hope everything is truly equal.
@@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver Those privileged tend to be the rich. Poor white people have little in the way of privilege. Rich people of other races tend to have more privilege than their poorer fellows. In the case of black people in the U.S. in particular, many were initially enslaved and when that ended otherwise systematically oppressed for many, many years both economically and educationally. This created an artificial but quite real racial divide in wealth. It has been narrowing over time and will hopefully one day be fully a matter of history, hopefully along with all other wealth discrepancies based on other than personal merit. Everything shouldn't be truly equal as people aren't so. Ideally everyone would have an equal opportunity for achievement with their personal merit determining to what height each climbs. The exception of course would be basic human rights all would be entitled to regardless of personal ability.
I did when i was younger, it was on RUclips and i was about 13-14, i didnt say it to a person, it was just comments. But now that im 20, I regret it. Cuz when i was bored i used to say like sum of the dumbest shit on yt back then, idk why everytime i was eating something, i had an urge to be very weird. But in real life, ive never been racist to anyone. Well there was this time an Indian hobo with autism or something that was in our city that i was very afraid of, but i was 8 YEARS OLD BRO XD
I just want to say this as I have experienced racism in my life before by white people most of it came from black people. I am mixed black and Mexican and I couldn't go into my black friends homes. Their older family members made it very clear they didn't like me. Or hearing you aren't black enough. That used to really hurt me because I was and am proud of who I am. I never understood what the big deal was. I was raised to never believe I am a victim or I can't get what I want because of my skin color. I worked hard for everything I have ever had. I never used my skin color to get ahead or feel like I can't get ahead. That's just stupid to me. We only oppress and limit ourselves.
I grew up in Oakland, Ca. In predominantly black areas, schools etc. I had the same experience. I’d hear “we don’t mess with white peoples” “we don’t like white people, your fine, but all the rest we hate” “we hate white people” etc.. in EVERY home I went into, in front of the kids, spoken towards children.. I have never, ever in my entire life heard people talk like that in white homes. Ever. It’s a narrative that is self inflicted and taught multi generationally. They say hate is taught and I’d have to agree with that. There is a presumption that white people think/speak/act like they do, so they do it too. Except it’s one sided.
I don't live in America (not saying it only happens in America - but just referring what once came up in a conversation)....Someone said to a family member that there is a lot of racism between black people simply because of the tone variations of....well, blackness....How can we ever end racism when even people of the same race are fighting each other over their race?
@@redlight1505 The whole idea that some black people have that black people with lighter skin tone get treated better just sounds bizarre. As a white dude, we get treated better the DARKER our skin tone is. Why does everyone think we have tanning salons everywhere?
@@darrekworkman5595 it is not bizarre, it is very much so true. Black people will treat the lighter tone skin people better than the darker skin people. Wild but it's true
Me and my siblings are asians. When my sister was in elementary school she was bullied and one of the black girl often said racist stuff to her and when my sister called her out she said "i cant be racist im black" Clown behavior
I have heard that so much that its a sensitive button. If i dont agree with you then i am a racist but you cant be racist because you are black is that not racist by it self🤷♀️
As a person who works for quite a few Asian families, they sh!t I hear black folks say about Asians and then back it up with well I'm just prejudiced is sickening. 😢
White woman here, I've experienced racism many many times. Mostly from black women. But I've also been treated the kindest from black women. Not the same ones. 😂
I hate to admit it, but I have been in several situations over the last couple of years where I as a white person have been treated very poorly simply because I was white. And in each of these situations the people who were being extremely offensive were members of groups that claim they are the recipients of racism. Over my career, I have worked with people from every race and creed and have treated them all as individuals and with respect regardless of their intrinsic characteristics. But I can tell you, over the last few years this whole issue has become a minefield.
@Saywitz the thing is, if you don't mention "I hate to admit it", you're vilified and called out for being a bigot, although still happens regardless of how you word it, it still triggers the left.
I feel like any time they use history to justify what they're saying, it's just like a big brick wall of "shut up, you're racist. Therefore I'm right." It really brings me great relief that she is so knowledgeable about every topic that gets brought up in her videos. I'm so grateful for you Amala. 💕
It's because she's mixed. As a mixed person we really have to look at both sides of life. Because well we live both and neither at the same time. I can easily be mistaken for a white person while she can easily be mistaken for a black woman. But we aren't that, we re both and neither so to just look at life form one perspective would make no sense. (ALSO I've noticed a lot of people who or half black face a lot of racism from blaxk people primarily, and it makes it hard for us to believe they are as oppressed as they say they are when they can easily treat other people the way the claim to be treated.)
@@niconeeco4608 This is exactly one reason why I don't believe in race mixing. The kids are often ostracized by both sides and it's just not fair to them. It's sad because they didn't ask to be here. I'm sure it would be really hurtful and confusing to a little kid.
I live in South Africa and I am white, I've experienced a lot of racism because of the fact that I'm white. And yes, there are a lot of withe people in South Africa along with people who are Asian, South Africa is called the rainbow nation because of how many different races there are but, I as a white person I still experience racism, I can't tell you the amount of times I wanted to be black, it's awful how people try to shape your mind in ways it's not supposed to be shaped.😢 Have a great day ❤
I'm sorry fren I have heard about this tbh any kind of racism to at race is awful some people only care when it's there own race is involved but others see the racism that happenes to anyone an care about every race
That woman who claimed to have trained LAPD officers is PRECISELY the kind of person who must never be trusted. They browbeat their way into demanding the training be administered, then they use that training as credentials to indicate that they are superior to the officers. This is the bureaucratic instantiation of "we just want to be heard" transforming into "you are required to comply."
The biggest lie they tell is America is the founding of all these problems . Injustice was going on thousands .. of years , before America was ever created . They are so naive and stupid it's amazing they think they know history .
Well, you are not in the good company of Amala with your view because her example of racism in India as embodied in their racial caste system is the very definition of structural racism, just as the sister argued and Amala reinforced with her example. Oops!
@@danilopompey754 they said if you look throughout history also.. but you conveniently ignored that one didn't you. LOL. I'm sure your happy going through life with a "white people created the slave trade" "white people started racism" kind of mind set like a lot of uneducated fools do, but fact of the matter is, white British men, were THE ONLY people in history who fought for black and any other races for that matters freedom and equality. We didn't create shit, we came late to the party and were the first and only ones to force change, and not just locally to us, but globally. Nobody willingly gave up enslaving their own kind because the slave trades they had for thousands of years before they'd even seen a white man were far too profitable. And white men fought and died to abolish that trade. And nobody else ever did or has since. So read books, study the facts, look further back than simply American history which is but a blip in the grand scheme of things, compared to anywhere else, America is a toddler with barely any history. Education, or rather lack thereof is the problem. Not white people.
@@danilopompey754 I think what she’s saying is that structural racism is just plain ol’ racism and everyone experiences it at some point, somewhere in the world, not just people with darker skin. In SOME places the racism is a bit more engrained into their society and structure, but because of cultural reasons, not systemic ones. Besides, that’s not how it is here anyway. At least that’s what I took from what she said. Like ya, racism is racism, there doesn’t need to be a long winded explanation of why black people experience it more because “the government and corporations” or whatever, because it’s just simply not true in the U.S. today. I’d argue everyone experiences racism pretty equally and it’s not because of our system, it’s because sometimes individuals are just racist regardless of their own skin color.
I was once in a gc with a girl who would literally try to find out everyone's races in the chat and once she found out she would adjust her attitude to you "accordingly." I thought it was the weirdest shit I've ever seen why she was SO obsessed with finding out everyone's race.
7 months ago me and my group of friends (all white) were KICKED OUT from Prom and accused of being racist by a group of 10 Black people (students like us) simply because my friend asked "who are you? I paid to be here I'm not leaving prom just because you say so" to a black girl who happened to be the vice-President of my uni and black community and co-organizer of the prom event, that previously and arrogantly told my friend to leave the dance floor for no apparent reason. After that "who are you?" phrase the black girl along with the whole group of black people lost it and replied "YOU DO NOT SPEAK TO A BLACK GIRL LIKE THAT" and accused her and my friends of being racist. They called her "STUPID BASIC WHITE GIRL" and laughed at her and us, and later on they kicked us out... meanwhile we absolutely DID NOT insult them or bring up their skin colour. JUST IMAGINE if we EVER pronounced the words "STUPID BASIC BLACK GIRL" to her...we would have been CANCELLED. After we were kicked out the other vice-president of my uni who is mixed race between white and Asian, came out to talk to us and said "Guys I saw the entire scene and I want to say that I agree with you and you were absolutely not racist and you should have not been kicked out, but you can understand for this type of situation I cannot do anything or let you in the building again otherwise I will be accused of racism too and be removed from my vice-president position"... my mouth dropped. We live in such a BLACK PRIVILEGED era right now and we cannot say the truth anymore otherwise we would risk sever consequences career-wise. This was in the UK btw.
As a Dutch woman, I see the exact same thing: these attitudes are leaking into our cultures as well. They're literally segregating us like people have done in the US, treat us like we're all colonizers and we literally have our culture and history altered to conform to their feelings. I grew up near an all-white plantation on the southern countryside, so the white = colonizers always left me scratching my head. This funnily also ties into one of the most recent, hypocrisies in my country, we have this saying called 'Werk ze' it literally means 'Work them' and was allegedly used primarily by plantation owners, but the term has evolved to mean 'good luck with your job' where I grew up. In the rich parts of the country it's mostly used sarcastically, but the area I was raised in actually deem it to be part of basic manners like saying have a nice day. As we were taught most people hate their job and are still horribly exploited by their employees so when we wish them luck we basically say we appreciate their hard work and to keep holding on because they'll go home within a few hours. To the descendants of white plantation workers, the term became a phrase to encourage spirit and acknowledge the suffering of the workforce. But because of the Dutch BLM this term is now critized in the rich part of the country where I moved to years ago. I now feel uncomfortable using this term that I still think is good manners and has became a phrase of empowerment by white plantation workers, because I've gotten thrown strange looks using it lately. Living in an area with a lot of violence from non-white communities, and the only white on white violence I saw being an SJW beating someone they deemed as a racist up, I don't feel safe being what I see as polite.
When i was in high school (uk too), i really like these two girls, they seemed very joyous and such so i wanted to be around them, i was mesmerizered by their hairstyles and such because being white with thin pin straight hair i cant do anything with even just normal waves hair is pretty cool to me; because i was so interested in founding out new stuff about others i got sectioned out at racist. I grew up in primary school in a very white area in Manchester so i didn't learn or have a lot of knowledge about black/mixed/brown people, so when i moved out of manchester to a more mixed area in a town i had asked one of these girls who i was friends with why do colour ed people always smell of coconut, i didn't know that they're skin dried out fast i genuinely was curious and she went round my school telling everyone i was racist, so when i finished school and wanted some class pictures everyone got i got told to ask a different girl who had the pictures to ask her for them and i did yet the response was "fuck off im not giving them to you, racist" so when i asked how i was racist they never got back to me. i dno if this is valid to this but it messed up my high school with it being predominantly brown/mixed/black people in that school.
What a load of Fucking BS!. And wasn't there any kind of 'Higher power,' A Dean or someone to appeal to?.. And where did it happen?(I've lived&worked in London before!)..And u won't hear the phonies of the likes of N,O'B J,O'B and 'Saint' Sheila Fogerty mention this on LBC!.. Because it's the likes of them,who are promoting this kind of BS..And I know it's easy for me to say but u&ur friends should have refused to leave,until security or the 'Cop's were called!
@@rosepark7390 I'm pretty well travelled,and lived&worked in both the UK&U.S..I'v also been in relationships with Black &Brown skinned Women(encountered rudeness from both Black&White)on both sides of the Water! Some people didn't appreciate the Mix,but my view was f##k em!! So with that said in the U.S I really don't see anything (or very little,if at all) preventing Black Americans from getting on!.If someone wants to see&perceive Racism they will..U have major Cities all over the U.S which are predominantly Black run,from The Senate and Congress,down to City Hall,DA and Cops.Baltimore,.NYC,Phili,Chicago,Houston,New Orleans..And who cares if they're doing the right thing!..And I think it's all about perception and the media peddling BS,who anyone who is unhappy in their daily lives can latch on to.. And this idea of me having 'White Privilege' is in my opinion irrelevant in this daily age..And I do understand what that phrase implies(one of best friends Is a mixed Race Woman(always invites me to Thanxgiving, Christmas etc) and we've discussed this topic and she's voiced her opinion&I'm not saying I was totally on board but it gave me something to consider! .Now at the same time she is pretty conservative in many areas (more so than me) but there's certain things we agree on Hard work,being honest and having integrity and judging people by their actions and how they lead their daily life's & that's my philosophy to life!
When I was a kid, I was told that it was Rude and poor behavior to treat someone differently based on their looks at ALL, let alone their race. I think how a person looks is one of the least important things about them.
YES! I went to Honduras once when I was 11 and I remember having a huge group of girls touching my hair and just staring at me because I’m like a ghost and I have red hair. It didn’t offend me or anything. I kind of thought it was cool because I always had hated my red hair but over there people loved it.
@@steveboy7302 Have you not seen the amount of hateful things people say about red headed people? They've been a targeted group over a physical attribute. Red hair is absolutely gorgeous.
@albatraozgirl sure, I guess you could call it discrimination, but it's nothing to do with race. I've been discriminated against for being Irish, which has nothing to do with the colour of my skin
My mom had a very thick rural Kentucky accent. She went to years of speech therapy in college to get rid of it because as she said, "Every time I opened my mouth I lost 15 IQ points." She realized that people would judge her badly for her speech whenever she tried to get a position.
I can relate. My dad, a German immigrant, worked very hard to obliterate his German accent as well as preventing my siblings and I from picking up any accents growing up here in the States. I was born in Irpin, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine SSR, and I sound like an American when I'm speaking English. Theodore Roosevelt was right.
And the "inclusive left" DO NOTHING in defense of rural whites. THEY perpetuate the stereotypes, especially of Appalachians, because they don't typically vote blue. I guess their humanitarianism only goes so far....
@@C3IAM He said in a speech given in 1907: "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
They didn’t fully get into the “fetishizing” conversation because they ran out of time, but just throwing in my two cents: white people totally get fetishized too. It all depends on where you are and the culture of course. I’m Scandinavian from North Dakota. My husband is from the Dominican Republic (and they are a darker mix of Hispanic and black, no whites) My husband said growing up, the lighter you were the more attractive you were. In the DR I got whistled at on the streets and stared at by everyone in public when we weren’t in the “tourist” parts of the island. The only part that got under our skin though was when an old friend of my husband’s was teasing, “oh she’s a white girl, she must like it in the ass,” and being sexual when he spoke about me. On a different note, my sister and I are naturally blonde with blue eyes. Since I can remember I’ve heard the stereotype of ditzy and sexy blonde chicks, but specifically my sister and I have gotten cat-called in larger cities like in TX by being called ‘blondies’ and the focus on our looks that way. But that’s more of a “meh, oh well” like what that Jewish guy in the video said. It’s not a huge bother, it just exists. Growing up in school I did hate anytime someone would make a dumb-blonde joke or comment on my mistakes and stupidity being expected because of my hair though, so it didn’t mean *nothing* to my little mind
What's a "darker mix"? And wym they're a mix of Hispanic and black (no whites). Dominicans are usually mixed in varying degrees with black and white and even native. And even white Dominicans exist (you didn't know that?) even though they're not that many and I'm not even including Dominicans who are sometimes called white but are really not. That's a whole other topic. And it's basically just the fact that it's a Spanish speaking country that makes it Hispanic, racial makeup is irrelevant to that. In other words you could theoretically be a Dominican who's 100% black and still be considered 100% Hispanic. Mixed with Hispanic and black is like saying mixed with white and American. Do you realize how that doesn't make any sense? I'm curious why you said that though, like how you process that even though it's definitely inaccurate. Of course I do realize the original meaning of Hispanic would be basically a Spaniard (probably a white person) similar to the term "Latin(o/a)" but at this point it's used to describe people from Hispanic/Latin American countries so that's practically the only meaning nowadays on a practical level to the point where often Spaniards aren't even included in that group. Also idk if you could call that fetishization but it's more than just that in the DR. Many Dominicans consider people more attractive the lighter they are and if they're white even better. White people are pretty much put on a pedestal and considered superior and most attractive. Not saying all Dominicans think like that but it's too damn common to ignore or say that this preference is evenly spread out. And it's not just a healthy preference either. There's clearly some colonial damage in there. So idk if that qualifies as a fetish but even if it does at least there's a positive connotation to it (albeit TOO positive or negatively positive at the most if you will, to the point it's offensive to themselves and that definitely has to do with a mindset that's a result of colonialism) as opposed to fetishization of a group of people who some people consider basically good for sex and maybe attractive but inferior otherwise. Examples would be white supremacists who may still be into interracial sex and slave owners having relations or sexually abuse slaves even having children with them sometimes. Or white and other non black women who are into black guys just because of the whole BBC stereotype and they may or may not consider them equal but often aren't putting them on a pedestal as people other than penis size. Or sometimes not even considering them equals. Not saying being put on a pedestal just cuz of your race or skin color is ok cuz that's the other extreme too and can be annoying. I think a lot of people want to be treated equally like normal people and be judged based on that and not only they don't wanna have it worse but I like to think many don't wanna have it easier either just cuz they look a certain way.
Yeah exactly, being white literally meaning "Easy" for some reason. Also Using "White man or White girl" to make fun constantly is among the most racist stuff and no one ever says a thing. It's been so normalized.
Agreed. I’m extremely ethnically diverse though the racist Neo-Marxists label me as “white.” I’m asked all the time “what are you?” in regards to my ethnic origins. East Asians in particular (especially Koreans) love to pet me and play with my hair (my hair is ridiculously soft and contains every natural color; I’ve even had white patches since I was 20 - I’m calico lol). Black women have been the most aggressive regarding their attraction to me. I have to laugh at the Jewish boy’s comments. Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group, so lumping him in with “white” is an odd choice and honestly reductive and borderline racist. Certainly there are white Jews and nonwhite Jews. There are also ethnic Jews. What’s the difference? Also, depending on age group between 80-90% of American men are circumcised especially if they’re non-Hispanic. Hispanic and Latino people who are of non-native ancestry (“white” Europeans) are also more likely to be circumcised. It’s an American custom at this point. Skin color (Race) ≠ ethnicity ≠ nationality (in most cases).
I'm European-American, ginger, and female. First, we are subjected to fetishism like no one else, both by others of our race and those of other races. As a child, other *girls* were and still are curious about variation. This was a subject that came up in the video repeatedly. I never perceived questions by other girls, regardless of their race, as racism. The reality is that young children don't perceive race nor understand racism. Variation is interesting. That's not racism. The problems began as I grew older, as a teen, and then an adult. Males would approach me, often with lewd and provocative language, touching my hair and even running their fingers through it without permission. The first time took me off guard. But all subsequent times were met with assertive rejection of bad behavior, verbally and physically. And that included inappropriate behavior by male students while I taught in the K12 setting. Is this male privilege and fetishism? What about the fact that a high proportion of these badly behave males were a different race? Is that racism? Secondly, it is now established medical fact that gingers, due to a unique gene sequence, react differently to various stimuli. Stimuli can range widely, from anesthesia medication, contact with foods high in capsaicin Scoville units, and vision photosensitivity, to name only three examples. Not being "taken seriously" even when communicating concerns or known factors is *not* unique to one single group. Claiming that is the case, and attributing it to "racsim" is absurd. In January 2022, I experienced a dental emergency, resulting in swelling, life-threatening infection, and intense pain. My DDS examined me, determined I needed a root canal procedure, and prescribed medication to stabilize the infection. His staff printed out the referral form I needed, and on giving it to me, he reminded me to disclise my medication interactions, and to have the surgeon call his office for more information as needed. I made the appointment with the oral surgeon, and in the pre-surgery check-through, related to the oral surgeon that anesthesia takes longer to take effect, but also takes longer for full reversal. This has been a life-long situation I've experienced as a ginger, I related to him, and asked him to please consult with my DDS for questions. He laughed in my face, saying, "Um, right, I'm sure everything will go fine as always," ignoring my concern. It didn't go well. The anesthesia took twice as long to take full effect. At the interval when the medication naturally subsides, it didn't for me. I was partially conscious but paralyzed and could not react. Technicians assisting the MD panicked, shaking me aggressively, trying to force me into full consciousness. The doctor kept coming into the room, checking, and then said he was going to consult on reversal protocols. I could hear all of this, but I could not open my eyes, speak, nor react. When I was able to regain consciousness, the doctor came in to see me, and very nervously said, "You had us a bit concerned there for a while..." and I remember looking at and answering, "I warned you." All he could say was "Yes, you did." Bottom line is that patient biology is unique, and doctors aren't magic people. They make mistakes, especially when it comes to the nuances of genetics that have been previously observed, but dismissed as anecdotal until yet more recent medical discoveries. When people insist everything is "racism!" they stop looking for the *actual* variables influencing or impacting an outcome. That means we don't learn the actual reasons for what we observe, , and cannot properly and effectively address the perceived problem. The mistake is compounded by imposing policies which change nothing. That's the risk we run by broadbrushing. And, I know this from experience - my own and other people's.
@opheliascalzo1321 my own lived experience and those of other gingers I know suggests it's quite real, and intense. And in more than one case, malevolent.
The first time I experienced racism was at 12 years old. I meet a friend who was black...I just thought she had the coolest hair. She asked me over to house and her mom was so mad that to quote her mom is do not bring that white b. in this house. I at that time had no idea about color at that time. That left a mark on my soul.
Wow that's so racist out of the mom... I hate they can get over it because they are black as if they couldnt be derogatory and racist... then they ask why people are racist to them! lol
I believe it happened!! It's happened to me! I grew up in Baltimore MD. I was the only white girl in my SCHOOL!! I suffered a lot. But I also learned from a young age how to defend myself and not take crap from Anyone!! I also made some great friends too!!
Dude: Can you define racism and tell me who defined it? Lady: **rambles for twenty minutes and doesn't answer the question** I'm also glad the Jewish guy told us he was Jewish, like, seventeen times. That was helpful and necessary.
can you define racism and tell me who defined it?!!!! really?!!! can you define heterosexuality and tell me who define it? can you define journalism and tell me who define it??
@@mhorworshipper7456i don't know who's side your on but your avoiding the point of this comment it's about her using something called a "red herring" aka bringing the conversation off topic. Also to answer your question google defined it that's what he's saying not who wrote it but who/what did she get it from
@@simplicityd8703 google defined it? WTF?!!! I an older than google and racism existed way before… Racism: race -ism it is a term that was born to name the believe of people characteristics and traits are defined by their race and judged and discriminated based on that… I was Not eluding the question I was merely letting you know how absurd your post was…. I can define racism but I don’t know when it appeared as a recognized term in a dictionary nor who proposed the finally accepted oficial definition …. That doesn’t invalidate her opinion at all… can you tell me who defined it?…
@@simplicityd8703 racism means prejudice and discrimination of somebody based on their race… if you treat somebody badly because they are white is as racist as it is treating somebody badly because they are black… full stop
I grew up in a fairly mixed area and definitely experienced racism. I was called Casper all the time, people would make comments about needing to put on their sunglasses because I was white. L that sort of thing. Starting in middle school, I can remember rejected for programs because of the color of my skin. The first one that I can remember was upward bound. I was brought into a room with another student, who happened to be a white young man, and the adults proceeded to tell us that we were rejected for the program. We were told that we were rejected because any available slots first go to any qualifying minority students, then to any non qualifying minority students and if there are any slots left they are offered to qualifying non minority students and unfortunately there were no slots left for non minorities this year. The other student started crying so hard. My mom's bosses daughter got in that year, even though both of her parents had doctorate degrees and they were extremely wealthy. The worst place that I ever saw racism, as an adult, was in a community that was not diverse and people were racist against others of the same race. Kids would be crying about how one person hated another person because they weren't dark enough.
I used to be called 'White as Snow' living here in New Mexico. Yeah totally not racist at all. And for any wondering, the context was not in any positive way whatsoever.
As I white looking person. It’s always blows my mind when someone is surprised my husband is black and feel the need to tell me he’s black. I’ve learnt to just tell them thank you for pointing that out, as I never noticed.
My husband is not as tall as I am and people, after 40 years, still need to tell me he is short. People will look for anything to make you try to feel less than them!
You could have a lot of fun with that. "What, he's black? Oh my God, you're right!" "It's OK, he thinks I'm black- don't tell him!" Or just give them a knowing smile of satisfaction.
I actually have been on the crazy side of racism being the target. Went to a predominantly black school once in middle school and once in highschool. They always thought i was white talking smack about white people then they find out im actually mexican and native american then they start calling me wet back redskin spic or border hopper. Like what. I have experienced more racism from black people and brown people than people think. I only had 1 white person neing racist to me in my life. Blacks and browns being racist to me were well over the hundreds. Hell i even got a failed jumping done against me. Its insane how those very people in this day in age cry racism. Now days white people are the least racist in my experience.
I've experienced more racism from black people too, and I'm a white latina. It's unfortunate, but the ppl who cry about racism the loudest are usually THE most racist period!
It was so refreshing to see how respectful every last one of these people were not only with their ideas but with each other. It made me happy to see there still are people that can sit down together with different opinions and not be belligerent.
You are so right. I am a white 58 yearold woman who grew up poor and I have struggled most of my life. I have not had the ability to go to school past my Jr year of high school. I had to leave school jr year to help my parents with money so I went to work. The young woman you talked about who has all these great things accomplished seems to have had more oppertunities than I have ever had so i feel insulted when I am judged as previlaged just because I am white. I have a relative and a couple of friends who are police officers and I can tell you they treat all races the same when doing trafice stops or called to a resident. It upsets me to know the white race along with other races played a part in slavery. I get upset when I see someone treated badly no matter if it is due to race, age or lack of wealth. I think BLM stirred the pot and made it worse by pushig the narative that all whites have previlage and are racist. BLM has cheated their own race by missmanaging the funds that should have helped the black community. I am so glad there are those like yourself who look at it all realisticly not just believing what you are spoon fed from those who have their own agenda's which require people to believe that it is such a black v white issue. They need to also realise a bad cop treats other white people badly as well. They look down on white people who have low income the same as other races.
The thing that really grinds my gears is that woman who presents herself as such an “enlightened individual” but has *zero* idea how to empathize with other peoples experiences. It’s all about her experience, all about what a word means *to her*. What she does, caught in real time on video, is literal gaslighting to excuse racism.
I am Cuban, with a very diverse heritage, I don't remember experiencing racism. I grew up in the 80s, and things were different back then, people were happy. I appreciate you acknowledging the other side of your heritage. It is important to embrace both cultures.
So I was a recruiter for The Army in the early 2000s. I was 1 of 2 white recruits in an office of 10 recruiters. The other 8 were black recruiters. Now we are a military force of many nationalities for a common goal. I had the other recruiters say within hearing distance, “I love putting white people in the Army so they can go overseas and die”. Yeah that’s racism. It’s hate towards another based upon the color of their skin. I had black people come into the station. I would stand up stick my hand out to shake theirs. Ask how are you how can I help you today. They would ignore me and walk right to a black recruiter. The recruiter they went to they did not know. I felt it was very disrespectful. Was that racism towards me. I felt it was. So in short racism is racism no matter what color you are. Hate is hate. It all starts in the home. Teach your kids to love one another. Respect one another. And this topic of racism will diminish. As far as systematic racism. I have had way more black or Hispanic supervisors than white. If racism be it traditional or systematic exist how is that possible? Just sick of people treating others like crap.
"I can't get a job because of my skin color" Maybe your interviewer sensed that attitude within you and didn't want to deal with it in their workplace. If you think your color affects the way people perceive you, it will.
False to statistics. Are black people are and certain a neighborhood's more likely to be unhealthy? Well that's very difficult to tell when you're watching a 600-lb Life marathon with all white people. Being unhealthy causes in a aggravates all your problems
You can call whatever you want but time and time again we’re proven that using the definition “racism is racism no matter the history” leads to people to treat everyone well and with respect while the convoluted “ racism is systemic” definition consistently shows to give non white people excuses to treat anything close to whiteness like worthless trash. At the end, that’s what matters. actions and it’s result matter more than words. And the results are as transparent as water in the state of our society.
Its sad he is old though. It shows a level of maturity that the younger folks are yet to reach. And I kind of wonder if we are ever going to reach this level of critical thinking as more and more leftist propaganda spews out. It’s not about getting stuff from the source anymore, it’s about getting it from someone else, which is dangerous because we interpret things differently based on how we think. People need to learn how to read things verbatim.
I lived in Mexico till I was around 6 or 7 which is when I immigrated to Canada. My entire family has experienced racism at some point during our life there; my dad faced a life filled with classism and colorism since he is a darker tone. I was told that I'd be prettier with my mom's skin tone. And my mom would get catcalled in the street, and racist remarks and stereotypes during her 13 years of living there. The most stupid thing about this is if I go forward and say "racism applies to all races, white included" most people will be accepting of my perspective. If a white person goes forward and says the same thing they'll get backlash and will get shit on for being "white privileged." I don't understand why people have to live in such a savior complex that they now completely deny racism towards lighter-skinned people. So dumb
Some people still try to find ways to call people out for saying white people experience racism even though they themselves aren't white and mentioning a fact. They usually try to call you "white empathizer" or "grifter" It's so dumb. Even if you're someone standing up from a group that says those things, people still find a way to be mad and call you wrong It's sad
Sorry Amala I am sick of hearing about this subject, but I’ve learned if show the police officer respect and follow instructions not give them attitude it will go well.
The definition that white people only experience bias and prejudice is exactly what is being taught in our schools in Canada too. In fact, my son had a reading assignment where he was to answer questions framed in such a way where students could only answer them with the info they were given. They were not able to use their own reasoning. I have been denied service at a store because I guess I didn't look like I was their type of client. I have been wrongfully pulled over by a cop only to have him wrongfully take me to court and lie under oath about what I did. If I was any other color I could easily say those people were racist! But I'm white.... so what was it? Sometimes bad things happen because people are jerks, no matter your skin color! And yes, there have been moments in my life where I was accused of my white privilege by those who do not believe white people can experience racism. They were also the same people that called me blind to my white privilege, a white supremacist, a nazi and cussed me out for my ignorance. Why? because I had the gull to express that we should do all we can to build each other up and that I see skin color like I see eye or hair color. Our skin color doesn't make us inherently good or evil. It does however show evidence of our heritage, of our ancestral line. No where is it taught in schools how there are others, not just white Christians, who used their religion and power to conquer and enslave others.
i beg you pardon, I am white, I am not a racists.. I have experience being laugh about because of my nationality by others and yes, we have met biggots in our lives too, but if you believe white privilegie doesn't exists or that your life is as difficult as black people lives, or Native American´s or any other race or ethnicity in occidental countries, you are truly blind.... that doesn't mean I´ll allow anybody to insult me (being called a racists is an insult to me) or harass me in any way
I experienced race fetichism myself as a blond white girl when I travelled in Senegal (West African Coast). People would call me "Tubabu" to refer to my pale skin, child in remote villages would run after me touching my hair and my skin. At the time, I felt deeply uncomfortable because I was only 6 years old and these were strangers to me. It was even frightening. However, now that I am an adult, I understand that was curiosity, sometimes disgust (it was rare but it happened, especially about my freckles), sometimes awe. I could have felt it as racism, but it was not. I was just different than what they were used to see, and I get that now. The real issue of priviledge in the US isn't race, it's class. I would advise anyone to read Nancy Isenberg "White Trash" to understand this point. Also, about the social science studies: most of the time studies look at correlations between variables. The causation(if any) is made out of the researcher. Hence, it is up to these people's perceptions that causations are established. When it's racism, it's because someone decided to cutting edges any explanations by establishing this as causation because it's usually an easy way to go (like in regular debates by the way). Does not mean it's false, but does not mean it's true either. That's why I like this channel, Amala is always nuanced and I appreciate that.
My husband went to get a college loan many years ago. The office he went to LITERALLY told him if he were black, he could do something for him. But since he was white and his father owned his own business--he was not living with his father and was over 20 years old at the time--they couldn't help him. Racism exists against ALL races. It's usually by individuals and is not systemic, but it exists. And it will always exist, which is simply a fact. So if you run into it, I agree with what you've said, Amala: walk away and don't use it as your crutch. Stop letting it define you and keep you down be your own person.
That is not racism but economics. Assuming that the office could help a black person, regardless of economics is a lie. My daughter (over 20) is black and couldn't get a help because we made too much money. They count the parents' income when looking at giving out financial help.
I went to a high school that was 80% black, 15% Asian or other race, and I was in the 5% white. My neighborhood and city had similar demographics. I never experienced racism at my school personally but did witness it at my school (in multiple directions- from white to black and black to white, and even other racial directions based on other races). What I did experience personally was when I got punched in the face and called a snow white b****. This was for telling a kid he had to leave the public pool for at least a short while for screaming obscenities at other pool goers when I was working my first lifeguard job in the neighborhood. The other lifeguards and the manager turned their heads and allowed me to be punched because I was the only white girl around. I talked to the manager after and she apologized to me and said it wasn’t right, but yes, I was not stood up for because I was white. She suggested I not stay around when I graduated high school because I would continue to be treated this way because I was white. I personally feel I have experienced racism as a white person with this. Frankly, it has never changed my deep belief that everyone is equal and deserves the same treatment as long as they show the same respect back. However, the experience has deepened my belief that anyone can experience racism no matter what their color, and that it is wrong on any level. We are ALL different and unique, and we all deserve respect, kindness, and empathy. This means we ALL need to check ourselves and reflect on our own behavior to ensure we aren’t propagating things like racism. No one, no matter the situation to be a good or bad outcome, should be judged with the color of their skin as a factor in the judgment. I am worried kids these days aren’t getting that message. They are instead told to think of racism based on the view of their personal race alone, which to me is a racist way to combat racism itself.
Hey Amala, As someone who studies history and does archaeology for an actual living, it would be a blast for me to somehow come onto your show or call in and do part of a segment with you and discuss these things in greater detail. I always find myself using the same historical points ALL OF THE TIME when I deal with Liberals on history. They use revisionist history. I use actual history. Hope you're doing well and I hope you read this comment.
About being an Oreo, I just want to make the point that that's not always how it's used. I'm fully black, and as a teenager it was a joke at my expense, to mean black in appearance and culturally/behaviourally white. I was white to my peers because I liked predominantly white artists, because I didn't like to use "black" slang much, because I liked "white" things like shopping at Holliser. It was hurtful to me as a teenager because I didn't understand how being myself took away my ability to be truly black. Black, white, or any other race should never come into your personality and interests. It's genetics, and that's the end of it. I know we can laugh at stereotypes in comedy and things like that, but hearing for years tha I'm not black really did damage to me, it made me fear hanging out with people who did look like me because I didn't feel like enough as a black person. People around me made me see my race more when I didn't care about it as much in the past
Sorry you experienced that. I can kind of relate. I'm from UK and I didnt hear the term coconut or bounty until I started to hang out with black people. Also then learnt the word sell out and wigga. White people werent using those words. It was black people in UK using them towards other black people. I even ended up using the term wigga about other white people despite I had insecurities over my race based on those same ppl being racist and saying "you think you're black" etc because "you dance black". Not sure how else I was meant to dance to urban music. As a result I wanted to be black in my mid teens because I felt I wasnt allowed to be myself because of my race. Race became a qualifier as to whether I was allowed to act/speak a certain way. This ish gets handed down and people repeat it like I did and it was racist no matter who used it or how..
I'm a literal Oreo, biracial -- and I can testify that some of the harshest comment about how I acted came from mostly black people.. but only ever the "ghetto" ones. And now I avoid anyone who acts like that, but because of it I'm called racist even tho I avoid all races that act this way. People who purposely act dumb because they think it's cute are some of the message and judgemental people I have ever met, and sadly most of them are black for me and that might make me sound racist, but I'm not. Telling an experience isn't racist.
I’m white, born in Africa, moved to the US to go to college. While there, in an English class, this teacher was going on about how racism is about power and privilege and therefore black people couldnt be racist. So I asked, “so since I have no rights or privilege, or at least way less of that than any American, does that mean I can’t be racist?” Obviously, they didn’t go with that. But it was very clear that uh… it was still actually about discrimination based on skin colour, not this poor attempt to sound intellectual and hide the issue lol
My best friend through elementary school to now is mixed, and so am I, but she's a lot darker than I am. I remember being with her and her sisters and them all laughing because I looked too white to go to a couple of our other friends' houses. Their uncle didn't want me at his house either. I was teased for being too white. I was told that my hair and skin were "watered down." Yeah, it bothered me at the time and felt shitty. However, I already understood even as a child , people can be really terrible for no reason.
Ask any cop. A simple “domestic disturbance” call is definitely NOT a cake-walk nor are they “simple”. The participants can be some of the most insane and dangerous people - if only in that circumstance in that location - than any. I know of a cop that was having a reasonable conversation with the couple when the husband suddenly reached down, pulled the cops gun and shot him in the head. (The dude’s defense was he didn’t think cops walked around with loaded guns.) How many social workers would want to go into a situation like that?
the left want to abolish police and prisons and replace them with social workers which would backfire and reuslt in social workers being popped full of lead
Domestic violence calls are probably THE most unpredictable, dangerous calls cops can respond to. Hell, sometimes they can be fighting each other and then turn on the person trying to break them up!
And why would cops carry guns if they weren't loaded?! I can't even believe that could be a "defense". Like either they're pistol toting racists, "killing black people without reason", or they're walking around with unloaded guns that are useless and kill nobody. You can't have both.
I’ve faced a lot of racism in my life as a white person, unfortunately mostly recently probably because of white hate brought on by blm which is very sad to me because all I’ve ever done is respect black people because I respect everyone until they give me a reason to not respect them, and no skin color could never be one of the reasons
In 2018, a HOMELESS African American teen in Philadelphia, Richard Jenkins, 18, earned a full free-ride scholarship to Harvard. He stayed in school, and graduated valedictorian of his class. He made the choice to work hard and study, and he changed his life without ANY of the resources that we all seem to expect to have as ordinary people in this country. How many young people blame someone, anything BUT themselves, for their lack of success? If Mr Jenkins can do it, why can't others? Maybe they'd rather play the victim card, because they just don't want to do the work. "Oh, waaa! Everyone is holding me down!" Come on! Someone should tell them to have some REAL dignity and self respect, please!
As soon as she said, "on a systemic level," she ABSOLUTELY lost me! "The police should not be policing themselves." - This! I completely agree with this.
I'm a GenX white looking guy (my father was very dark and my mother was white as snow) and my generation, along with I'm guessing most Millennials too, were taught to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. We accepted this easily because of both it's unassailable Humanism and it's appeal to the fundamental sense of fairness all humans, and even other mammals, share. By extension judging anyone by their immutable characteristics is anathema to our thinking. To put it succinctly: If you judge someone by their race, ethnic background, sex, sexuality, disability, or any other non-choice you are on the wrong side, period. There are no exceptions. This new generation are fighting the battles of past and are ignoring the real issue: the inequity of socioeconomic status. If you are poor in the Western world, regardless of race, the system is against you. Poverty, and even just low income, is punished in our country no matter how hard you work. Our systems underserve the bottom half, nickel & diming anyone unlucky enough to be born with less and keeping the vast majority down. Solve this, actually solve it, we need to truly level the economic playing field by provide equal access to the same quality of education, medical care, security, and opportunity regardless of socioeconomic status (ie. schools and services in poor neighborhoods are exactly as well funded, staffed, and run as in wealthy neighborhoods) and we will see the end of "systemic" racism because these are the tools of those that still truly are racists. This is by no means a call to Communism or full on Socialism, we can do this without resorting to "equity" principals across the board, there is no need to cut anyone down to raise everyone up. We just need to make it a national/cultural priority to invest in providing this level field to everyone and let each individual make of it what they can. Imagine the potential of our nation(s) if everyone really had a chance to excel even if they were born to a low socioeconomic group. This is the future of equality everything else is window dressing.
Thank you. You said everything that I feel, too. I feel race is being weaponized so the people can fight each other instead of focusing on banding together to help the betterment of our country and how the people within it are treated. But, it's sad to see how Willing a lot of people are to immediately judge someone else based on their race. It's like people were all too ready to give up their morals and integrity to say "No, I want everything to be about me, and to hell with any and everyone else". The world just feels so gross now😔. (I'm sorry - I know this was a rambling sort of comment, and I probably didn't word how I feel very well...😆😆) I'm also Gen X, and am so grateful for growing up when I did.
I'd argue that I see it as fairly disabling to reduce ones own skill of discernment to and judgement if others to topical, arbitrary factors and all but ignore the more telling behavioral cues like apparel, posture/demeanor, and meaningful use of language.
Rule of thumb: If you have hate in your heart for someone based on color you are racist. Never judge people based on what you're told, base your opinions on your experience with someone
I was one of a few white people in my school system outside of Atlanta, GA. People asked to touch my "white girl hair" alllllll the time. It didn't help that it's also super long. 😂 And of course some of them didn't ask! The number of times I turned around feeling tugging and some boy has his fingers stuck in my hair is hilarious. I always said it was fine, unless I had curled it, then I'd tell them to be careful lol. It honestly started a lot of conversations and friendships. The questions I got were "how long does it take you to brush/wash/do your hair?" and so on. It was just a sharing of cultures imo.
One time I went to a family reunion of my unofficially adopted moms family in South Side Chicago (long story there). I was one of the few Caucasian person amongst hundreds of African Americans. All the little kids wanted to touch and feel my hair. One kid grabbed a lighter and tried to burn some because he didn't think it was real. LOL!
I am a biracial person myself and I'm half indian half Greek and I really felt understood when the 2 biracial girls said it was hard for them to fit in people often asked my indian mother if I was adopted I could never really fit in with the white girls and I also struggled to fit in with the indian girls But being biracial makes me appreciate all races it allows me to understand different perspectives and I love that
I find that calling someone racist is very much used as a crutch for someones lack of motivation to better themselves. Im white and live in London. I love how diverse it is. Years ago i saw women in a salon in Brixton through the window and they were all laughing and seemed friendly and it looked like a place ide like to go. I walked in and did notice i was the only white person. I spoke to one of the ladies and she said none of the stylists can do my hair. Immediately i thought it was because i was white and she saw this. She was so wonderful and explained to me with thee most amazing smile and compassion that its not because im white but because the young staff in the salon at that time hadnt been trained in Caucasian hair yet and she told me to come back the next day. Wonderful women and i left smiling and still think about them and that situation over 10yrs later.
I grew up with a large mix of races. White people were pretty much a minority. I’m biracial and experienced hateful racism from black kids. Some of them were my “friends”. I experienced racism from white kids but as well but it wasn’t as aggressive. I also had a lot of friends of all races who weren’t racist. I didn’t like my hair (I love it now) but I’ve always loved my race. & I was blessed with green eyes lol
I am white, male and live in the UK. I have had stones thrown at me and been called a white See You Next Tuesday. In the UK everybody knows the name Stephen Lawrence, a 17 year old black boy beaten to death, by alleged racists. Hardly anybody knows the name Ross Parker, a 17 year old white boy stabbed to death by a gang of Asian Muslims out to "get a white boy". There are a number of similarities between these cases. And a number of differences. One was all over the news, the other was subject to a news black out.
I've been refused services in an all black salon. I went into the mall in Augusta Georgia to get a hair cut. I'm white with naturally curly hair that I straighten. So it's quite large and their were at least 14 women in there at chairs, some had customers but most did not. Every single lady in there was black. So I asked for a cut to be done on my hair dry, already straightened. She said I'll check, please have a seat. She came back and said there were no openings. So I wandered around the mall and found a small salon that one beautiful black lady was cutting a white man's hair. I asked her if she could cut my dry straightened hair. She said yes, that's how blacks get their hair cut all the time. So she cut my hair. That was several years ago and that was definitely in my top 3 cuts in my life. I'm really glad that I was turned away, can you imagine the butchered hair cut I would have gotten. They didn't want to take me because I had white skin.
Love it, sadly this isn’t normal…I’ve had to facilitate many inclusion meetings in the military as an NCO and it always turn into…”your a white Christian male and just needs to shut up and let us express our anger and frustrations”. The military is falling apart…I’ve seen awards be decided on race, gender and sexual preferences by leaders because…”the young black gay females feel like they are not recognized”. Everyone deserves a trophy generation, cry enough get what you want. Sorry but this young generation has lost it, no one cares, no one is looking at you, judging you, out to get you, they just don’t care. That old white dude doesn’t care who you want to sleep with. he’s looking at you cause you’re in line in front of him at the store…that’s it.
@@theoriginalthinker9199 your comment is exactly the reason such bias exists. I’m guessing that you are a black man. Firstly black women are less emotional than white women and they are the least likely to complain about pain and they have less addiction to pain medications than white women. My hubby is a doctor and to hear him and his colleagues jokingly make comments like black/African women do not feel pain and they don’t get depressed tells the story of how black women are treated in the hospital versus their white counterparts because we do feel pain and we do get depressed. My first 2 children, I was nit given any pain medication for the labour. Absolutely None at all.
@@chinezeolisah1308 Okay, in my op I said I was black, so obviously you didn't have to guess and um, "Firstly black women are less emotional than white women." I must say, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. And by the way, I don't have to guess. I KNOW you're a black woman, or at the very least, overly sympathetic to black causes. Also, you're lying. I've worked alongside Drs for over 30 years. No Dr would ever say black women don't feel pain. And if you weren't given pain medication, it has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with the orders your Dr wrote and why.
@@theoriginalthinker9199 I even doubt you have worked with Drs because if you have, you will know that they are less likely to prescribe pain medication for black women. I didn’t know how serious it was until I joined a post natal group on social media populated by black women and women of African origin. To see so many women ask for solutions to relive pain immediately after delivery even those who gave birth through a Caesarian is just disturbing. No I have no situation medical or otherwise precluding me from having pain medications. They just didn’t want to give me one.
I'm a very blonde blue-eyed woman from the Netherlands. And i have experienced racism from people who are of Surinam or Antilles (decent). Which were Dutch colonies, way back, in case you don't know. I guess these 'black' people have some kind of hatred toward 'white' people out of their 'community'? I don't know, how could I. It saddens me that i can hardly get in normal contact with them, because they're so 'on guard'. Recently i got a call from an unknown number, and i heard some teenage girls asking me who i was, and why my number was in her contacts. And according to my name they assumed i had to be white. One girl in the background shouted: "She's a tatta!". The girl on the phone replied: "No way, my mom doesn't have tatta's as friends!" I have never in my life heard this word before. I've looked it up: It's their curse word for white people. The opposite of the N-word. Later i remembered that i gave this lady in the street my phone number when my daughter went on a birthdayparty of her daughter, which was ages ago. She must have passed her phone to one of her kids.
How can you possibly know what a call is going to be like until you get there. I have heard from many cops that domestic violence and domestic abuse calls are some of the most dangerous. Very volatile.
I remember growing up in the 90s and the woke talking point was that black communities were under policed, and that the oppression was indifference. We needed to lift up the black communities by giving them the police representation they deserved. Fast forward 30 years and now the problem is too many police. They can't keep their story straight. I think it's entirely possible that a lot of the systemic problems are due to individuals making bad choices. I also think people make a lot of stupid assumptions. Bad things happen to all of us. If I were in a quote unquote victim class and viewed myself as a victim I would interpret those bad things as oppression even though it normally isn't. I have been and am regularly treated badly all the time and I am not black. The truth is people are rude all the time not because they are racist per se, but because they are selfish and put themselves before others.
"I remember growing up in the 90s and the woke talking point was that black communities were under policed, and that the oppression was indifference. We needed to lift up the black communities by giving them the police representation they deserved. Fast forward 30 years and now the problem is too many police." I'm black and I know full well what you are talking about. The problem was housing projects had been totally overrun by crack cocaine. Black mayors who had huge strongholds of housing projects failed to take decisive efforts to control and eradicate the problem. Black folk like Coretta Scott King here in Atlanta were the biggest proponents for a federal crime bill. So did the congressional black caucus. And thats the unapologetic truth.
To blame this on the police makes you do ignorant there are no statistics that say black people are more prone to police violence. An if you actually look up civilians killed by police there is not one year where Africans or Latinos had more deaths than Caucasians, Caucasians had almost 2x the amount of deaths. Do you not realize these crimes, mass shootings and looting/protesting is done in democratic states with democratic elected officials and they are tougher on police rather than crime, have the strictest gun laws but also carry the highest murder and crime rates? I bet you didn't. Keep your liberal agenda to the north and we will keep out agenda in the south quit trying to push democratic/ liberal views on other people, everybody brings race and violence into every argument and now we are throwing gender in to, where does it stop? It's gotten out of control and if the "woke culture" continues and there are not more people standing up we will be a 3rd world country in a decade or two. This is economically and socially dividing this country.
I grew up in the 90s in UK mostly hanging out with black people including Indian and Arabic and race was never a factor in our lives except for dating preference. So sad how ppl in UK caught a cold when America sneezed.
@@bromack3 in the 90s in UK people would bun crack in the clubs and my ex was a crack-head/dealer and many friends did crack. Most of my friends grew out of it and dont know anyone now who does crack. The trend kind of faded out
As a respiratory therapist who's worked in the labour and delivery unit, I've never seen epidurals not given to someone because of their race. I have no idea where she pulled that information from. It's not something we learned in our clinical placements, or in the classroom, and I've been doing this for 10+ years.
I have never been screwed over by a black cop in my life and I am over three decades old, however I have been screwed over by Mexican and white cops. I have been falsely charged with crimes twice in just three years, both very serious offenses. Two class A’s and a 2nd degree felon. Fortunately, I had black judges and they dismissed all of them. Both those incidents came from myself calling the police for help in self defense situations. They came late ultimately forcing me to have to take matters into my own hands or perish. When they finally showed up they always sided with the criminals. Your love for the police is missed place my friend! By the way, I have paper work to testify to my claims.
Amala says lots of stupid things, especially, with her great college education, and yet she professes not to know why unarmed Whites who are killed by cops are not in the news like Black victims. Why? Do you know? Because Whites are more gullible than Blacks. The cops lied to Tony Timpa's mother about his death and the tape revealing the truth did not come out until two years later, which is the norm, that is, cops lie like dogs to cover their evil deeds. But in the case of Black victims, we have ambulance chasers like Al Sharpton and Ben Crump to expose the cops. That is the difference. Ironically though, here’s a rhetorical question for you, Amala. Who benefited most from the Civil Rights Act of 1964? White women. So, if BLM succeeds in holding White cops accountable for murdering unarmed Black citizens, who will benefit most? White citizens because in raw numbers White cops murder more unarmed White citizens without being held accountable. Wake up, please.
@@cameron7498 Let me guess, you don't live in Atlanta. If you did, you would know that black cops are far worse than white ones. I would much rather deal with a white policeman than a black one any day of the week.
When I was in first grade, my mother put me on a soccer team, and there was this one girl who was black, and her hair was very curly. One day, I just kind of asked if I could touch her hair. She said yes, I touched it, thought ‘cool’ and said thank you. I was just curious, and didn’t understand that could be rude, but she was very nice about it. All of the other girls on the soccer team thought it was okay to do it too, and they began touching her hair without asking. To this day, I still feel guilty about what happened.
She likely didnt care as this hair thing didnt start until about 5 years ago. I grew up with black people for about three decades. Never heard this hair thing until very recently.
I'm sorry the memory of that still bothers you. (I know I certainly have things in my past that I still feel guilty about too.) I don't know if this will help you feel any better, but I'm a white woman, and I have very thick, curly, dark blonde hair that I wear long and and always have. When I was in elementary school, I had a number of times where other kids - once in a while, even adults - asked to touch my hair. I didn't mind that. Sometimes they started touching my hair without asking, and I would have to turn around and give them a look like, "Really?" They usually apologized sheepishly. There was one memorable instance where one other girl in the class, trying to be funny, stuck a small, stubby pencil in my hair when she was sitting behind me. My hair is thick enough that I honestly didn't feel it...until she started trying to look for her pencil which my hair had promptly swallowed and hidden. She then had to sheepishly explain to the class what she had been doing because she was interrupting the teacher (and I thought that was only fair on my hair's part :) ). I certainly can't speak for anyone else, and certainly not for the girl in your story since everyone experiences things differently, but I learned quickly that my hair was just different, and people were curious. I usually wound up enjoying the compliments and conversations in the end, even when people were too forward about trying to touch it at first. Again, I don't know if that helps you, but I hope that it does, at least in a small way.
Not to mention I was a skinny nerdy white kid that went to a mostly hispanic/latino public schools and fuck yes racism towards white people very much exists and I'd even go as far to say it's probably the most widespread issue of racism that exists today.
In the 80's my sister went to a Catholic girls school in East London. She is white and was a minority at that school. She had to learn to fist fight just to get through the week at that school because of bullying from black girls at that school. The teachers did nothing for fear of retribution even back then. When I had to leave home because of violence from from my stepfather, I called the local council housing department for assistance. I was told because I was male, white and working that I would not receive any assistance in accessing any housing services. I ended up renting a room privately and that was only because a friend had a spare room in his flat as I couldn't afford to rent privately. Obviously what we went through isn't racism simply because that was aimed at white people according to some people. What would you call it?
It’s literally almost impossible to fire ANY government employees - teachers unions are just as bad…postal workers, ALL civil service employees have gotten protected - not just law enforcement officers!
I was thinking the same thing. I'm usually not one to pile on criticisms of Police, but labor unions are a problem in and of themselves in many professions.
yup, its called qualified immunity. They fall under that. Politicians fall under ABSOLUTE immunity! it's written inn Virgnia Law that politicians if there is a session going on, you can't issue a ticket or make an arrest 2 weeks prior and 2 weeks after :)
It's racist to categorise about 100 different nationalities of people white. Irish, English, German, Russian, Scottish, French, Greek, Latvian etc.. We are all different and put in one basket as the same. Disgraceful.
@New Life New Rules It's not so much about being emotionally weak, it's the hypocrisy and double standards. Sure, if someone called a white person a cracker they might bust out laughing in their face, but still. How are you going to claim that words hurt and are violence then turn around and say something bad to someone else? What happened to "practising what you preach"? What happened to "do to others as you want them to do to you"?
@@abbiereynolds8016 Exactly, I don't get offended at being called cracker or any of the newer "slurs"(from tiktok and twitter). Its just a double standard, you cant be mad at someone for doing something, and then you just going off and copying, it's a repeating cycle of double standards and victim blaming. Reminds me of a kindergartener classroom. Pointing fingers.
I was one of only a few white kids on my bus. I definitely learned that racism came with age. The black kids that were elementary age LOVED me. At least one kid played with my hair everyday! And I was totally okay with that. However the older black kids (girls) on the bus did not like me because I was white. I was told in not so nice terms that I was not allowed to sit in the back of the bus. I was “accidentally” pushed and my hair was “accidentally” pulled on a regular biases. I was devastated because I was nice to everyone but that didn’t matter. I was still kind to those who treated me poorly regardless. A year after I graduated high school the main girl who was mean to me apologized. She said that she realized how bad she was to me just because I was “the white girl”. It’s not something I can forget but I forgave her when I was a kid. I think that racism is treating someone poorly strictly because of their skin tone. Prejudice is prejudice, just was wrong is wrong. We all need to do better, be better.
I've been called a YT by one of my own cousin's wives, for explaining the actual history behind braiding hair, and where it also originated- how African-Americans did not start braiding their hair before anyone else. It is just as much a part of my heritage (Celt) as hers. And for that, she threw out a racial slur.
Good for you for saying something! The fact that some people think that braiding your hair appropriating black culture is insane….. Celts, Vikings, etc…… do people really not know of these cultures?
Every ethnicity is racist towards others. It's an instinctual part of protecting the group you belong to. It is therefore not inherently evil, but needs to be channelled alongside with mutual appreciation, the same as man and woman are different, but learn how to appreciate each other's qualities.
What you are describing is not racism. What makes you think protecting one groups is racism. Racism is when you hate or discriminate another race. You are oversimplifying racism.
@@lisah3460 in practically every culture foreigners, not only those of different ethnicity, are being treated as second class citizens, unless they are instrumental in promoting the nation they visit, which is the case e.g. with tourism. There is a natural fear and/or aversion against the "other". That's why virtues like hospitality rank very high in Judaism and other Middle Eastern cultures, because having experienced "being a stranger in Egypt", the foreigner, even the Canaanite slave, receive special consideration and protection, contrary to natural inclination. I don't believe that racism is institutionalised in any country. Laws against illegal immigration and borders are obviously not signs of racism.
@@terseandtiny1746 it's called social structures like family, community, nation, ethnicity, belief system etc. They promote human excellence, vs. modern Western individualist isolationism. Everything has potential for either good or not so good. It's up to us. E.g. family structures and values can be used to promote growth of the individual, or to stifle it, G-d forbid. It's like the internet; it's not either good or bad. It's up to you whether you e.g. learn a language online, or watch porn. Same with "groups". A soccer team and a symphony orchestra are groups. Jews, Chinese, or vegans are groups. Groups are mere containers that contain helpful, or toxic content. And, all extremes are harmful, unless used towards a healing process, but as soon as healing has been achieved we should stop taking the medicine. Tearing down social structures is a medicine against bigotry and oppression of sorts. It's not an end in itself.
@@lisah3460 Yes and it is not only white people who can be this way. For all the black people who say that it is only white when they know damn well they dislike everyone but their own..
As a white person I affirm: whites suffer racism. I'm tired of being labeled fascist/bourgeois/racist for the simple fact of being born white. In addition to also having my political views ignored for the simple fact that I am not black. That old argument that "you never had a hard time" (even though I'm a middle-class person with a lot of bank debt)
The number of complaints you have does not mean you are a bad officer unless the complaints are upheld. Anyone can say anything about you and it goes in your file even if it’s proved that you are innocent of the claim. My first ever complaint was when there was a car accident and one of the people involved had a heart attack and fell out while I was conducting my interviews. I began doing CPR trying to save her life and the other driver kept demanding that I answer her questions about the accident. I finally looked up and said in a in a firm voice “ma’am I do not have time for you right now” and then went back to doing compressions. The woman who had the heart attack ultimately died. The other woman went to my supervisor and filed a complaint on me while I was still trying to save the other woman’s life in her line of sight. She said I was rude and unprofessional. It’s still in my file. People are petty and every single person you deal with is mad and having a bad day and wants to blame someone so complaints pour in if you actually do work. The only way you don’t get complained on is you spend your whole career avoiding calls.
If your race is 'hegla' and someone doesn't like you because of that, it's racism. White, black, brown, green, purple, orange, yellow, 'hegla'. If the action or idea is racist when applied to one race, than that action or idea is racist when applied to ANY race. This is a simple yes or no question. Everything else is obfuscation, and we need to eschew obfuscation.
I love your channel Amala. You cut right to the heart of hot topics and still manage to remain entertaining and pleasant. I admire the way you articulate your perspectives, maintain a high degree of logic and clarity. I very much appreciate your thoughtful viewpoints and your on point dialog.
The first time I got called racist was when I was just six years old. It was during the time of the 2008 elections and my friend and I were regurgitating the political views of our parents. I said my parents were voting for Romney and my friend, who was also a white little girl but had parents voting for Obama, called me racist because my parents 'didn't want to vote for a black man'.
I went to a very VERY liberal “woke” art college and I remember there was this one Asian girl who I thought was cool, cute, and wanted to be her friend. One night I was talking to this guy from her clique and I said “hey can u ask x if she wants to be friends? I feel like I never get the chance to talk to her!” Lol I was intimidated by her. He got back to me a few days later and literally said “she doesn’t want to get to know you because you’re white.” That was the ONLY reason. She knew NOTHING about me. Wouldn’t give me a chance to be friends. I was shocked and hurt because wtf?? But then i was told i have white fragility etc.. I get that not everyone deserves your friendship and vice versa, but to completely write off a potential friendship because of my skin color is wild. When I look back on it, my hurt was valid. Not “fragile”.
You need to talk to people yourself not through a third party. Friend may or may not have even talked to her.
There is no white fragility. Your hurt was legit. Just imagine the opposite. Someone white tells another person he/she doesnt want to be friend with a nice person just because he/she is black,brown or yellow(far east asian). How would that sound? Would they tell the non white person he/she is just fragile? Or would they call the white person a racist? The hypocrisy is strong with many so called "POC"s.
@@hydrolito that's exactly what I thought. I cant tell if OP is male and the other person thought they were a threat.
Sometimes when people say they don't want to be around racists, they only mean white people. They don't realize what they're saying is actually racist, and that makes them a racist by their standards.
i would’ve literally told her “well now on a second thought i shouldn’t mix with asians, you’re right!”
Racism is racism period. I do not accept the new definitions.
What’s funny is people have been messing up the term racism for a while now with the word prejudice. I believe it’s not a coincidence and we were being driven in this direction for a pretty long while now. I want to add that I believe the swap is more useful due to what it implies and it’s the lefts favorite thing to do. That’s why the addition of PoC was so important. It means everyone except Whites at this point. Even Asians got pulled in despite being the most successful and even whiter than most whites skin tone wise. African American is another term that was pushed. The accepted vernacular has swapped about 4 times in my lifetime, and this is the most ridiculous one. Everyone’s favorite new model for this is Elon Musk.
@@jeffw5733 It's crazy how it's now "people of color" which is eerily similar to "colored people".
@@robwaters8848 This truth. Hateful people reverse the order of the words and reinstall their "new term" to somehow take on a whole "new" meaning that somehow fits their new narrative 🙄
Batzzz, well, you are not in the good company of Amala with your view because her example of racism in India as embodied in their racial caste system is the very definition of structural racism, just as the sister argued and Amala reinforced with her example. Oops!
@@jeffw5733 yeah... no. racism has always been racism. it wasn't until 2006 when woke people started saying this "privilege + power" stuff to absolve woke bIack people from the racism they spewed at whites in the name of social justice. as a bIack man, its insidious & sickening.
As a Cuban American woman with white skin, I have experienced racism from all skins and cultures of people. My favorite is when a lantin American or Hispanic person speaks shit about me in Spanish, then I respond to them in Spanish. Just gold to see that facial expression shift. From confidence to oh shit what did I do.
Now that’s something I can relate to, though not to the same extent. I’m half-Brazilian from my dad’s side, but both he and I are fairly pale. So I’m often told I’m “not Latino” and that I “don’t count” (mostly by other white people) because I’m “clearly white”.
Cowards,If they have something against you they should tell you in your face!
How about you go to Miami and they call you a tourist for not speaking Spanish I kid you not. How about you go to the dentist in Orlando and Spanish TV is on and nobody will speak to you in English. How about you rent a car in Orlando and the EMPLOYEES can't speak English. Never STOPS.
thats hilarious, I'm sorry people are like that though
@huitrecouture I know exactly what you're talking about. My husband is American and doesn't speak Spanish. We went to Miami on vacation to vist my family. And everywhere we went everyone spoke to him in spanish. And he's there telling everyone I don't speak spanish. My grandmother and my self were his translators.
I'm a White man, married to a lovely Black lady for 40+ years (Since I was 19 in the Air Force). 2 daughters, a grandson and granddaughter. In my experience (and I have literally been all over this world), It seems that people often look for ANY reason to prove they are better than one another. Race, Religion, Sex, place of origin, hair color, handedness, you name it.
Well said and I agree with that observation.
Humans will find anything to complain about.
Those (anywhere in the world) who seek validation by insinuating superiority based on any immutable characteristic without superior credentials, come off as petty, and banal, and oftentimes stupid. . .which is counter to what they are trying to achieve. This is the fatal flaw of any form of bigotry that comes from weak minded people by definition - their failure to thrive. . .with the exceptions of sociopaths and psychopaths hillary joe clones
Do you and your wife do interracial? lol.....sorry, bad joke haha
Hawk Ptuey, I saw what you did with your screen name, you Jabroni! 😉
BAH. The Navy wouldn't even allow me to join and be recruited because the Navy particularly as far a branches of the military do not allow people with certain dissabilities.
When I was a little girl I lived in all black neighborhood. We were the only white family within miles. I went to an all black school when I was in the fifth grade the three black teachers drew straws to see who would get me. The only white kid in that entire fifth grade class. How I found this out was when I walked into Mr. Walker's class he told me you're only in my class cause I drew the short straw. Within 2 weeks somebody stole my books out of my desk. The classroom had a class set of books and your own personal text books.
When I told him about this he said no you took them home and lost them. You can use the books in the classroom but you're not taking them home. So I had to struggle to get all my work done within the class time. Cause he made sure I wasn't taking home books and at the end of the year my books showed back up in the return pile of books from the other kids. When I showed him he said I told you you had them at home you just found them. At the end of the school day a girl came up to me. She sat behind me in class and said that she stole my books at the beginning of the year. She did it cause she wanted to make sure I failed the fifth grade. The joke was on her because Walker always sent me out of the room every time we had a state required test. He got into trouble for not allowing me to take state required tests. So he asked my reading ed teacher to have me take the tests. I was listening at the door he told her you got to get her done today because my job is on the line.
And that's how I passed the fifth grade even though most of my assignments were incomplete.
I'm so sorry that happen.
That's about how it went for me. There wasn't even 10 white kids in my entire school. I got spit on and beat up until my dad had enough (after they stole my good winter coat because we weren't allowed to go to our lockers but twice a day) and no one would do anything about it. They wouldn't let me keep it... My dad finally said to stand up to them. He said, i don't care if you get suspended. He said they're all cowards. He was right but i wasn't even almost going to try because if you fought one you fought them all.. at the same time. I've yet to see a fight with black kids that it's ever fair. My kid is supposed to start hs here because while i made it out of this shit hole by then we came back to help my grandparents die. They're gone now and I've got a month left and am almost willing to sell everything i own or burn it to the ground rather than let her go another year here. The schools here are a joke. They're big day care centers meant to babysit and that is all. Most of the teachers are just trying to survive. They don't give a fuck. My kid could sit on her thumbs for 3 more years and still be at the top of her class. Of course when we move she'll be behind if i don't supplement her education. Racism, in my experience, is bred by experience. I only feel the way i do when i come back to this state. It isn't the same elsewhere
@@SimplySix1 can she homeschool? That's awful.
@@SimplySix1 what state?
Not surprised to hear it
I live in Sweden. Where I lived as a kid there was very few black kids. At least in my school. When the first black kids came to my school I adored them as did the rest of us. We were so curious about them. I was very very blonde as when I was a child and they had never seen hair as blonde as mine. So we stood there in the school yard petting each others hair. I promise you from the bottom of my heart, there was no ill or mean intent. We were just getting to know each other.
Comparing it to now where if you even show an inch of patriotism then you're a nazi or a alt right extremist in general.
Your Swedish you don't have to deal with African-Americans most love there victim mentality
Yea why is it that countries where the indigenous people are white have to be 'diverse' I don't see Africa inviting white or asia inviting whites to be more diverse ain't that strange
@@abbeyjane5014
They didn't have a great history with white military occupation, did they? And there are many white tourists either. I don't recall much of African military in Europe apart from Spain during the middle ages.
If I were being occupied by foreign military for hundreds of years, I wouldn't like them either.
@@abbeyjane5014 EXACTLY if anything white countries are more diverse than other countries of other races, what does that tell you?
Jimmy knows what’s going on. I’m tired of this weird twist on racism. I’ve been called racist simply because I am white. I felt that was racist because I had not done anything to earn that title except be white. 🤔 I grew up in a multi racial family and didn’t see race until society told me I was different than my family. I don’t understand racism no matter who it’s pointed at. It’s frustrating to me to be considered racist just because I’m white.
I agree, I could do a 100 things to support black people but once I disagree, I’m called racist !
Please please please know this, YOU are NOT the crazy one. They are. They are brainwashed with a pseudo religion.
Double down you weenie. Don't be weak as all Conservatards are
It’s all done to cause chaos and divide a country.
“Whiteness” is literally born from racism
I grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in st. louis. My parents couldn't afford to send me to a private school so i had to go to a public one. There was less than 15% whites in the whole school. We couldn't even walk down the street without being told we "didn't belong there" and being threatened. As a child, I got called every racist thing in the book, by kids and adults. Had kids throw rocks at me and hit me with sticks at recess. I complained, but the teachers looked away. Got so bad, my mom had to sit up there to watch me. I got into it with a girl on my bus because there were no more empty seats and she didn't wanna sit next to "white trash". I told her she was racist, and I was laughed at by everyone because everyone knows "blacks can't be racists". I had to stand at the back of the bus for the rest of the year because everyone refused to let me sit with them. I was so depressed growing up I barely left the house. The one time I went to ride my bike at 10yrs old, I had a group of grown men chase me down, knock me off my bike and take my bike. I had one of the highest gpas in my graduating class but wasn't offered assistance or a scholarship because Im white, but i knew a few of my peers that got a full ride and had way lower gpas but they were black. I've been denied jobs because I'm white and they didn't hide it either. Straight up told me it was because I'm white. Being white isn't a privilege.
I didn't have it as bad as you, but a lot of this rings true for me growing up as well. (Portland, OR) but honestly the gaslighting and being unable to give voice to your own experiences is the worst part.
To be told you have "white fragility" if you even talk about it (because you didn't feel privileged to be harassed by a group trying to spit on you, beat you up or take your stuff while they say things like "get that dumb white girl" or "No you can't play with her, I don't want no white girl in my house" or whatever?) Really hard not to let that affect you. Sorry you- or anyone- had to go through that.
It wasn't right to do it back in the day, it's not okay now- regardless of who's dumping on whom. These kinds of things will only really ever get fixed if we ALL treat each other with repect.
My wife and brother-in-law were in a very similar situation.
@rudedude83 people been sharing their stories for years but blacks claim they are just "prejudice" and all whites were "colonizers" and "slave owners. And if your "skin ain't dark enough, then you can't be black- even if half of your family is". I went to an all black highschool with 5 white kids. I got a scholarship and my first name is my black great great grandma's name. They pulled my scholarship based on my skin color. I refuse to go to college bc it's over rated unnecessary debt. Did you know you can read the college books and just pay to take a test and get the same college credit and not go to class..? It's called a clep test. 😂😂😂
Oh I wanted to add. I lived in a expensive white neighborhood but our county had a law about busing white students to the hood school for their quota. Early 90s. 🤷♀️
Only white kid in a school for troubled kids I constantly had to fight they stopped messing with me but never accepted me but I'm ,6 3 245 so I wasn't an easy target
Yep and even the teachers were terrified of the blacks who bullied the white kids and there were only 30% black kids in my school!
A girl in my class always likes to say “You can’t be racist to a majority, only minorities. So, you can’t be racist to white people.” Also, I will say something or do something dumb and she just simply says, “It’s because you’re white.” She herself is Philipino, and we are friends, but I have slowly started to realize how she is beginning to be racist towards me.
Whites are a global minority
Maybe you should remind her asians are 59% of the population.
She is not beggining. She is a filthy racist.
They live in a white majority country and complain about white people, she could easily move to her country and be around a majority of her people but won't because things are better here. If you were to look at things in a world perspective, white people are the minority but they love to live here and play the victim. Nothing but hypocritical crybabies looking to collect victim points all while being more racist than those they accuse of it!
I was a white person and graduated from a less than 10% white school ! I guess that means only i could've been a victim of racism
My grandfather was a police officer for 20 years, the last 5 years as a detective, he had to retire from that work due to my sister’s birth, the child abuse he saw on a day to day basis kept making him see my sister’s face on all these victims and he knew it would lead him to regrettable actions eventually, so he retired. Few of us see what these officers see every day, it is a brutal job.
What a blessing he is ❤️ I hope he is doing well
Excuses imo 24 years with dangerous troubled youth made me more empathetic not less ….more caring …Not less…..more try to make a difference …not run away ….come on wat pu$$ys
@@hopeswanson4512 thank you, sadly he passed about 6-7 years ago, It feels much longer, he was in his 80’s and had 4 children, 9 grand children, and 4 great grandchildren when he passed, he was well loved.
As someone who works EMS, a lot of people don’t realize this
It happens to parents who love their children and love children. They are so innocent and you kept help but imagine your child enduring it and it’s heart wrenching. I job shadowed an ER doctor in an inner city and I couldn’t handle the things happening to children. It was too much for me.
As a kid I was one of few white kids in a black neighborhood.. I was often attacked because I was white. But also I had freinds who defended me who were black. It taught me to judge on actions.
@@thydec6569 a simple, but absolutely true statement.
I was called racist by a group of black people because I said one of them looked like a black celebrity. I was 12.. and I didn’t see color I just saw the similarities they had. I thought I was being nice, giving a compliment.. but him and his friends took that as racism and started calling me names and calling out my whiteness. Even my friends who were with me were like “omg that was so racist” and their faces looked so shocked. Because I was 12 I was embarrassed and actually felt that I did something wrong. Looking back.. no i didn’t 😂 it’s not racist to say “hey, you look a lot like this celebrity”. I didn’t see color growing up until that moment. From that moment on I have always watched what I say around everyone 😭
Everybody seems to be over looking systematic racism not just racism from a radom group of people
Honey I was called a racist because I wouldn’t date this black man no matter how many times I told him I was married!
U are lying
@@ambercarter9746that a lie a big one
@@nelsonfelix932 sorry darling but I’m not. This man who called me this is a disgusting human being. I’m married and that is why I wouldn’t date him. That didn’t make me a racist but it made him a race hussler!
I'm white and the black girls in my elementary school class asked to touch my hair all the time. Actually I made some friends that way so it was fine! It never bothered me.
Same! Lol
I personally wouldn’t let a bunch of random people touch my hair BUT obviously a *lot* of people have questions about textured hair! It’s very natural to wonder what it feels like or what kinds of styles are possible with that type of hair. It can be a great learning and bonding experience, and it simply pushes people away when you shut them down and make it feel like it’s not safe to ask people about their daily lives, what they do to take care of it, etc.
That's so cute!
My step family is black and my cousins love doing my hair! They would take turns! I loved it!
It’s because you’re not living your life as a pretend victim trying to find anything to be offended by to make yourself feel like you deserve more social points and attention.
I was arguing with a guy online about the whole “white people can’t experience racism”. He of course claimed that there has to be some kind of power being held, so I pointed out all the black people that have been in positions of power: politicians, judges, lawyers, police, etc, etc. That’s when he stopped responding.
White people can't experience racism because racism was created for their benefit. We're not talking about individuals, we're talking about structures. In a commerical in South Africa, treseme (check the spelling yourself) described black hair as dry, frizzy and damaged and white hair as normal, and south Africa is majority black. In this context, Black people have never had that kind of power over white people to determine beauty standards
You missed president xD that should have put him in his place, he was literally chosen by the country to take the highest position of power there is(political at least)
@@aleksandarpenchev7731 He was the first one I mentioned.
EVERYBODY can be racist!!!! 💯💯💯
I loved what she said "systemically, racism looks different in USA for white people vs others. On an individual level, anybody can be racist and experience racism" 💯💯💯
47:00 To this girl’s point about how her difficulty in getting a job is somehow evidence that white privilege exists and that getting a job is harder for her because of her race, I too graduated college at the top of my class during the pandemic, and I too couldn’t get a job for months, and I too had to go completely outside of my field just to get one, and I’m white. Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t because of racism that some college grads can’t get jobs right away or in their field but because of the economy, job market, and majors that don’t tend to lead toward careers that are easy to get into right away.
Some time ago I listened to a video by a black man who was a millionaire talk to a guy who said he was having too many racist experiences with the job market... he probed the guy to find out what might have happened in the situations he named. At the end and in frustration he told the guy, I think the problem is you just are not a very nice person. If I don't like you, then thats probably why other people don't like you too.
I graduated at the top of my class in 2010 and I am white, I too did not get a job for 9 months after I graduated because of my race. White Privilege? hmmmm Must have missed that one. I wonder why my boss is a black woman? She must have borrowed her friends white privilege card.
Tell her the degree in Critical Race Theory is useless
Also, especially recently, a whole load of these "degrees" that kids in college are getting, are entirely worthless in life and the workplace. People spend years studying media studies or fashion then complain when all the engineers get jobs right away and they end up packing in a factory.. and just label it as "I have a degree in my field" no, you have a worthless degree in a useless field with very few opportunities and that's your problem, it was poor life choices nothing to do with race or skin colour in many cases.
- I really can't imagine a job currently in America that a college graduate would be going after, that wouldn't be actively favoring a minority applicant. Its gross that we are that shallow and self flaggelating of a people to have quotas and racial hiring preferences, but its seriously embarrassing that the communities that are going through their accademic lives on easy mode are blind to it, and so sadly incapable of taking advantage of it. Its almost as bad as the indigenous youth who say they can't catch a break while university recruiters are begging to change their lives.
When I was 16 I was in a mental health treatment center. I was the only white girl there and not all, but most of the other girls there bullied me relentlessly. The staff said it was because they were “jealous” that my family came to visit me multiple times and week and often bringing gifts and stuff I needed while most of their family hadn’t visited in months. My nickname from day one was “rich bitch” and it’s funny because I’m literally lower middle class lol. Also, one of the girls got removed from the program because they found a journal of hers with a detailed plan on how to kill “the white bitch” 🙃
Behavioral health clinics are wild man. I've been there.
My partner is polynesian, not black tho, and I've had soooo many problems with female partners of his family members. All the males have been fine. But one, who was used as a pawn by these women. When I meet someone I'm usually polite and respectful. I do not get into cliques but try to give everyone a chance. However from just greeting them, and small talk when I would see them, so many of them would gossip and smear me to each other behind my back. And to my face act really nice.. After finding this out I was baffled bcoz you usually assume people do that if provoked. But nope. Apparently I was just an "uncultured, slutty, white girl, who was a danger to their men, as my friends are attractive (they would spy on my socials)... As a newcomer to the family group they had the power and I didn't. So not all white people yield unlimited power in all situations as this chick claims. Not only that I've lived in India as a blonde girl amongst an ocean of darker people. The racism was blatant and rampant. You were immediately considered a prostitute for being white. You were ripped off, sexually abused and gossiped about. This narrative "white people privelaged = bad people" doesn't take into account that there are majority non white countries that treat white people to this day, with such hate and racism. And as a white person living in that country you are anything but privelaged.
I hope that you’re okay now💖💖 much love!!
that's not racism but ok pop off
@@dreaestis She had a nickname of 'rich bitch' already and she decided to make it about ops skin colour its literally planning to hurt someone that has no difference to the others besides skin colour. Hope you are ok op!
Thank you for saying that! I went to my son's school for an event in a predominantly black area. It was probably 2nd grade. Little girl came up to me, "OOOOooooo, you're hair's so pretty. Can I touch it?" I was surprised, but said yes. She touched it. "Ooo, where'd you buy it?" It wasn't meant rude, it was honest curiosity.
Lol she didn't know, she was innocent .
Lol!
My dad is a police officer. I remember when people started saying things about the police being racist, and started having riots because of them. Me and my sister would pray every single day that our father would come home. A while back I asked my dad what he thought of people calling him racist, he told me, “the only times I’ve ever been called racist was when I pulled over a black person. But that didn’t change anything. I’m doing my job, the job that I worked hard for. No one’s words will ever take that away from me”. I’m still scared every time he goes into work, but I know that my dad will do what he has to do to stay safe and keep us safe.
I hate the riots of people calling cops racist.
If 1 cop does something racist it means all cops are racist.
But no, they're simply doing their job to keep you safe and your loved ones.
Respect to your father and my biggest prayers to you and your family. Amen.
well, the point here is:
1. a white person can't say to another white person "you are being racists"
2. we´ll need to know which was the reason he stopped that black person.. because let me tell you: being black and driving an expensive car has been a common reason to be pulled over by police...
3. the African American population in the EEUU is 13,6% in 2022 while the white is 75% , in spite of that, the number of black people shot to dead by the police is almost as high as the number of white people .... considering statistics say the percentage of white perpetrators (all offenses) is the 64%, while black ones are just the 26%, why do you think police black victims are as many as white?!.....
@@Halalium4515-of4co Yeah.
I genually cant understand when a white cop handcuffs a black robber and black people on that scream at him, calling "racist" and every other word they find.
I mean, what was he suposed to do? Stop in his tracks and wait for blacl person to handcuff him? Let him go? He is a Polive officer and that black guy - a ROBBER for the Gods sake! Thats his JOB!
I had to look up is it was true or not. No the American police force or system did not originate from slave catchers. Policing was a practice brought over from Britain in the original 13 colonies (constables) That's not to say that police in the American south, you know that tiny piece of America where slavery was legal did uphold that law at the time by catching and returning slaves.
your dads a hero, wishing the best for both him and your family
I'm a 42 yrs old WM. I can honestly say they more racism now than when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s. I had good friends of different races. I was treated like family by there parents. Now I get labeled a racist just cause my skin color. This young generation have never experienced real racism and I pray they never will. They need to realize every culture benefits off each other. We all learn off each other.
real
Here's where I disagree with you...they need to experience real racism so they stop endorsing it.
@@Tiabliaj1989 you are right. Maybe some of these woke folks aways scream white supremacists and racist need a wake up call.
Ziggy B My white younger brother had mostly black friends in Jr. High and HS, and his friends came up with the term for their group of guys: 'The Oreo Posse.' They hung out at my folks' house often to play cards/shoot hoops, eat snacks, and goof around after school. Most of them came from difficult homes and several of them consider us a second family...to the point where one of the guys gave my folks a sign on it with the names of their kids and it included his name between mine and my brother's. My folks were touched deeply by this and it hangs in their living room to this day. This type of relationship (and the name they used) is not something I can imagine developing today and it is very sad. It was THEIR choice and they were having fun being brother's in spirit. My brother treasures his wedding photo with all of his groomsmen and his best man...with his one pale, light strawberry blonde face in the middle of six darker ones. They remain friends to this day, though they are spread all over the world. BTW we also both went through Jr. High and HS in the 80s & 90s. I agree it really does feel different now for my kids and for us as adults. We are all human. Our genetics are so close as to make differences negligible. The main differences arise from culture, family dynamics, income, and spiritual choices. Why do people dwell on something as divisive, and sometimes deceptive as skin color (referring to the many people who have discovered white/black roots through genetic testing, sometimes to their shock)?
They have seen real racism. Coming from themselves.
When I was applying to university was when I experienced most racism. My counselor called me in and asked me what my college plans were. I told her I was going to apply to all these engineering schools and had a list. I only had one reach and like 8 normal schools based on my SAT and GPA. She blatantly told me there was no way I was gonna get into most of these schools even though I researched them all individually. I was primarily in honors classes and the white students on my level with similar gpa and lower test scores were being told by the same counselor a different story. Something about it just told me… this is weird. It wasn’t until years later I realized it may have been racist cause my school was run by white people but was primarily Latino. A lot of these teachers were okay for the most part but around senior year when I was shooting for engineering schools (and got into all of them except the reach school), the passive aggressiveness was difficult to ignore. Still why let the many or few racists you come across control your life? I’ve seen people make the stupidest decisions on account of avoiding “racists” and making themselves a victim before anything ever even happens. It’s insane.
I also experienced EXTREME internalized racism from my family members. I still to this day have met anyone more racist than a lot of fellow Latinos. When people say only white people can be racist, I can just tell how ignorant they are of other cultures cause a lot of Latinos will blatantly say they don’t like black people or will make fun of kinky hair.
In engineering school, I did a high school outreach program for black kids and they were already saying they were hesitant about doing engineering cause mostly white people do it, and white people are racists. I was shocked. Even if that were true, why would you limit your life because of stupid people? To me it’s just an excuse to keep yourself from moving forward in life and not having to be accountable. Just sad.
I heard from a Mexican American male friend that he was ostracized by his own family after going to college. The family thought he was trying to act white and should be thrown out of the family businesses.
I like you. You're good. Wonderful soul❤
As a white person with my all 30 years of life I've only ever met 1 blatantly racist white person. I just wonder why I've met so very little when all I hear is how racist so many white people are. That's been my biggest question ever since we somehow reverted back to the 1950s.
I got into an argument with a black woman who jumped in front of me at the front of a line I had just waited an hour in and because I had the AUDACITY to stand up to her and not allow her to walk all over me, she was poking me IN MY FACE, focused on my sunglasses so not technically touching me, and she told me to get my UGLY, PASTY ass out of her face. THAT was racist! Period. She didn't leave until security was called. Then she went to the end of the line. Until that, I think she would have kept baiting me until I fought with her but I was with my boyfriend and his 7 year old. I wasn't going to fight her unless she actually hit me. She absolutely was a racist though.
Back in the day when I had hair, long blond hair and I travelled to Africa, Egypt, and parts of the middle east. Everywhere I went I people wanted to touch my hair and skin! They would stare at my blue eyes. I thought it was neat because they had never seen someone like me. I enjoyed it and embraced their curiosity. Made some great connections and conversations! What a great experience it was!
I have had that same experience when I lived in Brazil
When I was in school in the mid eighties I had a dear friend that was black. Her parents would not allow me to enter their house because I was white.
I worry so much about my beautiful biracial granddaughter. She is so loved and protected in our family, and I worry if she will get it from both sides when she gets out into the world.
I'm a white guy and I grew up in an all black neighborhood , can some one explain to me how when i'm getting the shit beaten out of me and getting robbed (which happened a lot) by a group by 5 black guys that its not racist because i'm the one with the power?
We're you beaten by the police for being white
IT WOULD BE RACIST IF THEY DID IT BECAUSE YOU ARE WHITE, if not is just a crime
Same 5 black guys a "lot of times" huh? Same exact dumb story all over the comments under her videos just different user name.Never happened.Next time prove your experience with racism by using a different episode of whatever tv show you got that one from.
3 replies, and they all disappeared.
Figures. Anyway, I can relate. Grew up in a similar situation.
@@justinroberts7291 My comment still there and i call BS.GTHOH
When a white person says there's white privilege, I tell them to take a walk through south central LA late at night.
According to their dumb way of thinking, that is no racism because its not racism by state, though its real hatred and racism by black people to no tolerate white people in their area. Its nonsense to define racism as being only possible if carried out by persons of the state and a system. Thats not how it works in practice. And even if we consider these woke definitions of racism, that would mean that each state worldwide was racist. In black societies black people have the power, in white societies white people, in yellow(far east asian) societies yellow people, in arabic states arab people....
I think there is white privilege. But it isn't like other people think it is. Is over small shit. Just like I think colored privilege exists. Just small shit that adds up, and makes people feel like it's more unfair than it actually is. Every group of people has its own privilege. Men, women, black, white, everyone. Everyone has their own privilege. And it just really shouldn't be that way. Eventually, I hope everything is truly equal.
@@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver Those privileged tend to be the rich. Poor white people have little in the way of privilege. Rich people of other races tend to have more privilege than their poorer fellows. In the case of black people in the U.S. in particular, many were initially enslaved and when that ended otherwise systematically oppressed for many, many years both economically and educationally. This created an artificial but quite real racial divide in wealth. It has been narrowing over time and will hopefully one day be fully a matter of history, hopefully along with all other wealth discrepancies based on other than personal merit.
Everything shouldn't be truly equal as people aren't so. Ideally everyone would have an equal opportunity for achievement with their personal merit determining to what height each climbs. The exception of course would be basic human rights all would be entitled to regardless of personal ability.
as a white male i am very proud to say i have never discriminated or been racist towards anyone.....
I always feel the same, but this is 2023. Someone will always find something hateful to say any anything or anyone. Sad times.
If you say so….
I did when i was younger, it was on RUclips and i was about 13-14, i didnt say it to a person, it was just comments. But now that im 20, I regret it. Cuz when i was bored i used to say like sum of the dumbest shit on yt back then, idk why everytime i was eating something, i had an urge to be very weird. But in real life, ive never been racist to anyone. Well there was this time an Indian hobo with autism or something that was in our city that i was very afraid of, but i was 8 YEARS OLD BRO XD
I just want to say this as I have experienced racism in my life before by white people most of it came from black people. I am mixed black and Mexican and I couldn't go into my black friends homes. Their older family members made it very clear they didn't like me. Or hearing you aren't black enough. That used to really hurt me because I was and am proud of who I am. I never understood what the big deal was. I was raised to never believe I am a victim or I can't get what I want because of my skin color. I worked hard for everything I have ever had. I never used my skin color to get ahead or feel like I can't get ahead. That's just stupid to me. We only oppress and limit ourselves.
I grew up in Oakland, Ca. In predominantly black areas, schools etc. I had the same experience. I’d hear “we don’t mess with white peoples” “we don’t like white people, your fine, but all the rest we hate” “we hate white people” etc.. in EVERY home I went into, in front of the kids, spoken towards children..
I have never, ever in my entire life heard people talk like that in white homes. Ever.
It’s a narrative that is self inflicted and taught multi generationally.
They say hate is taught and I’d have to agree with that.
There is a presumption that white people think/speak/act like they do, so they do it too. Except it’s one sided.
I don't live in America (not saying it only happens in America - but just referring what once came up in a conversation)....Someone said to a family member that there is a lot of racism between black people simply because of the tone variations of....well, blackness....How can we ever end racism when even people of the same race are fighting each other over their race?
I’m so sorry your friends had prejudiced family and truly glad that you’ve overcome that!
@@redlight1505 The whole idea that some black people have that black people with lighter skin tone get treated better just sounds bizarre. As a white dude, we get treated better the DARKER our skin tone is. Why does everyone think we have tanning salons everywhere?
@@darrekworkman5595 it is not bizarre, it is very much so true. Black people will treat the lighter tone skin people better than the darker skin people. Wild but it's true
Me and my siblings are asians. When my sister was in elementary school she was bullied and one of the black girl often said racist stuff to her and when my sister called her out she said "i cant be racist im black"
Clown behavior
Saying things like that makes me loose respect for a person immediately
I have heard that so much that its a sensitive button. If i dont agree with you then i am a racist but you cant be racist because you are black is that not racist by it self🤷♀️
As a person who works for quite a few Asian families, they sh!t I hear black folks say about Asians and then back it up with well I'm just prejudiced is sickening. 😢
I am south Asian. First racism I experienced was a black girl
We are living in "Clown Times". Society is imploding.
White woman here, I've experienced racism many many times. Mostly from black women. But I've also been treated the kindest from black women. Not the same ones. 😂
I hate to admit it, but I have been in several situations over the last couple of years where I as a white person have been treated very poorly simply because I was white. And in each of these situations the people who were being extremely offensive were members of groups that claim they are the recipients of racism. Over my career, I have worked with people from every race and creed and have treated them all as individuals and with respect regardless of their intrinsic characteristics. But I can tell you, over the last few years this whole issue has become a minefield.
Tbh they probably ARE recipients of racism - dished out primarily by members of their own race.
@@taxat10n1sth3ft Yes, I have seen that many times.
@Saywitz the thing is, if you don't mention "I hate to admit it", you're vilified and called out for being a bigot, although still happens regardless of how you word it, it still triggers the left.
it indirect trauma being placed on you.
@@dwaynerhodes6423 Just stating a fact. No trauma. I don't let others have that much control. But it is sad that our society has slipped so far.
I feel like any time they use history to justify what they're saying, it's just like a big brick wall of "shut up, you're racist. Therefore I'm right." It really brings me great relief that she is so knowledgeable about every topic that gets brought up in her videos. I'm so grateful for you Amala. 💕
It's because she's mixed. As a mixed person we really have to look at both sides of life. Because well we live both and neither at the same time. I can easily be mistaken for a white person while she can easily be mistaken for a black woman. But we aren't that, we re both and neither so to just look at life form one perspective would make no sense. (ALSO I've noticed a lot of people who or half black face a lot of racism from blaxk people primarily, and it makes it hard for us to believe they are as oppressed as they say they are when they can easily treat other people the way the claim to be treated.)
She is really a treasure ❤
@@niconeeco4608 same for me im meican and white
@@niconeeco4608 This is exactly one reason why I don't believe in race mixing. The kids are often ostracized by both sides and it's just not fair to them. It's sad because they didn't ask to be here. I'm sure it would be really hurtful and confusing to a little kid.
History is helpful context, but revisionist history and cherry-picked out-of-context examples are not. And, that was a huge problem here.
I live in South Africa and I am white, I've experienced a lot of racism because of the fact that I'm white. And yes, there are a lot of withe people in South Africa along with people who are Asian, South Africa is called the rainbow nation because of how many different races there are but, I as a white person I still experience racism, I can't tell you the amount of times I wanted to be black, it's awful how people try to shape your mind in ways it's not supposed to be shaped.😢
Have a great day ❤
Best thing is having people discuss their experiences with taxi rides and I just sit there like: 😐
@@gayraccoon353 Ye
I'm sorry fren I have heard about this tbh any kind of racism to at race is awful some people only care when it's there own race is involved but others see the racism that happenes to anyone an care about every race
That woman who claimed to have trained LAPD officers is PRECISELY the kind of person who must never be trusted. They browbeat their way into demanding the training be administered, then they use that training as credentials to indicate that they are superior to the officers. This is the bureaucratic instantiation of "we just want to be heard" transforming into "you are required to comply."
Exactly!!!
Seems like she’s done pretty well out of it 🤔
Hit the nail on the head! I'm so sick o this BS!
I agree how can anyone allow her to train police officers?
She wants to “re-educate” them.
When you look outside America and throughout history, a lot of these theories fall apart.
The biggest lie they tell is America is the founding of all these problems . Injustice was going on thousands .. of years , before America was ever created . They are so naive and stupid it's amazing they think they know history .
Well, you are not in the good company of Amala with your view because her example of racism in India as embodied in their racial caste system is the very definition of structural racism, just as the sister argued and Amala reinforced with her example. Oops!
@@danilopompey754 they said if you look throughout history also.. but you conveniently ignored that one didn't you. LOL. I'm sure your happy going through life with a "white people created the slave trade" "white people started racism" kind of mind set like a lot of uneducated fools do, but fact of the matter is, white British men, were THE ONLY people in history who fought for black and any other races for that matters freedom and equality. We didn't create shit, we came late to the party and were the first and only ones to force change, and not just locally to us, but globally. Nobody willingly gave up enslaving their own kind because the slave trades they had for thousands of years before they'd even seen a white man were far too profitable. And white men fought and died to abolish that trade. And nobody else ever did or has since. So read books, study the facts, look further back than simply American history which is but a blip in the grand scheme of things, compared to anywhere else, America is a toddler with barely any history. Education, or rather lack thereof is the problem. Not white people.
americans try remember other countries’ existence challenge: impossible
@@danilopompey754 I think what she’s saying is that structural racism is just plain ol’ racism and everyone experiences it at some point, somewhere in the world, not just people with darker skin. In SOME places the racism is a bit more engrained into their society and structure, but because of cultural reasons, not systemic ones. Besides, that’s not how it is here anyway. At least that’s what I took from what she said.
Like ya, racism is racism, there doesn’t need to be a long winded explanation of why black people experience it more because “the government and corporations” or whatever, because it’s just simply not true in the U.S. today. I’d argue everyone experiences racism pretty equally and it’s not because of our system, it’s because sometimes individuals are just racist regardless of their own skin color.
I was once in a gc with a girl who would literally try to find out everyone's races in the chat and once she found out she would adjust her attitude to you "accordingly." I thought it was the weirdest shit I've ever seen why she was SO obsessed with finding out everyone's race.
Because she was racist and wanted to be able to treat people based on it smh
yeah i’ve been in a group chat with someone similar. its definitely racist
I have a question, what doe gc mean, I have not yet heard or read the term.
@@peanut9560group chat
7 months ago me and my group of friends (all white) were KICKED OUT from Prom and accused of being racist by a group of 10 Black people (students like us) simply because my friend asked "who are you? I paid to be here I'm not leaving prom just because you say so" to a black girl who happened to be the vice-President of my uni and black community and co-organizer of the prom event, that previously and arrogantly told my friend to leave the dance floor for no apparent reason. After that "who are you?" phrase the black girl along with the whole group of black people lost it and replied "YOU DO NOT SPEAK TO A BLACK GIRL LIKE THAT" and accused her and my friends of being racist. They called her "STUPID BASIC WHITE GIRL" and laughed at her and us, and later on they kicked us out... meanwhile we absolutely DID NOT insult them or bring up their skin colour. JUST IMAGINE if we EVER pronounced the words "STUPID BASIC BLACK GIRL" to her...we would have been CANCELLED.
After we were kicked out the other vice-president of my uni who is mixed race between white and Asian, came out to talk to us and said "Guys I saw the entire scene and I want to say that I agree with you and you were absolutely not racist and you should have not been kicked out, but you can understand for this type of situation I cannot do anything or let you in the building again otherwise I will be accused of racism too and be removed from my vice-president position"... my mouth dropped. We live in such a BLACK PRIVILEGED era right now and we cannot say the truth anymore otherwise we would risk sever consequences career-wise. This was in the UK btw.
As a Dutch woman, I see the exact same thing: these attitudes are leaking into our cultures as well. They're literally segregating us like people have done in the US, treat us like we're all colonizers and we literally have our culture and history altered to conform to their feelings. I grew up near an all-white plantation on the southern countryside, so the white = colonizers always left me scratching my head. This funnily also ties into one of the most recent, hypocrisies in my country, we have this saying called 'Werk ze' it literally means 'Work them' and was allegedly used primarily by plantation owners, but the term has evolved to mean 'good luck with your job' where I grew up. In the rich parts of the country it's mostly used sarcastically, but the area I was raised in actually deem it to be part of basic manners like saying have a nice day. As we were taught most people hate their job and are still horribly exploited by their employees so when we wish them luck we basically say we appreciate their hard work and to keep holding on because they'll go home within a few hours. To the descendants of white plantation workers, the term became a phrase to encourage spirit and acknowledge the suffering of the workforce. But because of the Dutch BLM this term is now critized in the rich part of the country where I moved to years ago. I now feel uncomfortable using this term that I still think is good manners and has became a phrase of empowerment by white plantation workers, because I've gotten thrown strange looks using it lately. Living in an area with a lot of violence from non-white communities, and the only white on white violence I saw being an SJW beating someone they deemed as a racist up, I don't feel safe being what I see as polite.
When i was in high school (uk too), i really like these two girls, they seemed very joyous and such so i wanted to be around them, i was mesmerizered by their hairstyles and such because being white with thin pin straight hair i cant do anything with even just normal waves hair is pretty cool to me; because i was so interested in founding out new stuff about others i got sectioned out at racist. I grew up in primary school in a very white area in Manchester so i didn't learn or have a lot of knowledge about black/mixed/brown people, so when i moved out of manchester to a more mixed area in a town i had asked one of these girls who i was friends with why do colour ed people always smell of coconut, i didn't know that they're skin dried out fast i genuinely was curious and she went round my school telling everyone i was racist, so when i finished school and wanted some class pictures everyone got i got told to ask a different girl who had the pictures to ask her for them and i did yet the response was "fuck off im not giving them to you, racist" so when i asked how i was racist they never got back to me.
i dno if this is valid to this but it messed up my high school with it being predominantly brown/mixed/black people in that school.
What a load of Fucking BS!. And wasn't there any kind of 'Higher power,' A Dean or someone to appeal to?..
And where did it happen?(I've lived&worked in London before!)..And u won't hear the phonies of the likes of N,O'B J,O'B and 'Saint' Sheila Fogerty mention this on LBC!.. Because it's the likes of them,who are promoting this kind of BS..And I know it's easy for me to say but u&ur friends should have refused to leave,until security or the 'Cop's were called!
Its time to start ignoring the remedial blacks of the population.. plenty of smart black people to replace them with in conversation.
@@rosepark7390 I'm pretty well travelled,and lived&worked in both the UK&U.S..I'v also been in relationships with Black &Brown skinned Women(encountered rudeness from both Black&White)on both sides of the Water! Some people didn't appreciate the Mix,but my view was f##k em!!
So with that said in the U.S I really don't see anything (or very little,if at all) preventing Black Americans from getting on!.If someone wants to see&perceive
Racism they will..U have major Cities all over the U.S which are predominantly Black run,from The Senate and Congress,down to City Hall,DA and Cops.Baltimore,.NYC,Phili,Chicago,Houston,New Orleans..And who cares if they're doing the right thing!..And I think it's all about perception and the media peddling BS,who anyone who is unhappy in their daily lives can latch on to..
And this idea of me having 'White Privilege' is in my opinion irrelevant in this daily age..And I do understand what that phrase implies(one of best friends Is a mixed Race Woman(always invites me to Thanxgiving, Christmas etc) and we've discussed this topic and she's voiced her opinion&I'm not saying I was totally on board but it gave me something to consider!
.Now at the same time she is pretty conservative in many areas (more so than me) but there's certain things we agree on Hard work,being honest and having integrity and judging people by their actions and how they lead their daily life's & that's my philosophy to life!
When I was a kid, I was told that it was Rude and poor behavior to treat someone differently based on their looks at ALL, let alone their race. I think how a person looks is one of the least important things about them.
YES! I went to Honduras once when I was 11 and I remember having a huge group of girls touching my hair and just staring at me because I’m like a ghost and I have red hair. It didn’t offend me or anything. I kind of thought it was cool because I always had hated my red hair but over there people loved it.
I don't think that's relevant to racism
Red hair is lovely!
@@steveboy7302 Have you not seen the amount of hateful things people say about red headed people? They've been a targeted group over a physical attribute.
Red hair is absolutely gorgeous.
@albatraozgirl sure, I guess you could call it discrimination, but it's nothing to do with race. I've been discriminated against for being Irish, which has nothing to do with the colour of my skin
My mom had a very thick rural Kentucky accent. She went to years of speech therapy in college to get rid of it because as she said, "Every time I opened my mouth I lost 15 IQ points." She realized that people would judge her badly for her speech whenever she tried to get a position.
I can relate. My dad, a German immigrant, worked very hard to obliterate his German accent as well as preventing my siblings and I from picking up any accents growing up here in the States. I was born in Irpin, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine SSR, and I sound like an American when I'm speaking English. Theodore Roosevelt was right.
And the "inclusive left" DO NOTHING in defense of rural whites. THEY perpetuate the stereotypes, especially of Appalachians, because they don't typically vote blue. I guess their humanitarianism only goes so far....
@@antonkovalenko364 What did Theodore Roosevelt say? What was he right about? Just curious.
@@C3IAM He said in a speech given in 1907:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Okay but thats not racism, it was not because she is white
They didn’t fully get into the “fetishizing” conversation because they ran out of time, but just throwing in my two cents: white people totally get fetishized too. It all depends on where you are and the culture of course.
I’m Scandinavian from North Dakota. My husband is from the Dominican Republic (and they are a darker mix of Hispanic and black, no whites) My husband said growing up, the lighter you were the more attractive you were. In the DR I got whistled at on the streets and stared at by everyone in public when we weren’t in the “tourist” parts of the island. The only part that got under our skin though was when an old friend of my husband’s was teasing, “oh she’s a white girl, she must like it in the ass,” and being sexual when he spoke about me.
On a different note, my sister and I are naturally blonde with blue eyes. Since I can remember I’ve heard the stereotype of ditzy and sexy blonde chicks, but specifically my sister and I have gotten cat-called in larger cities like in TX by being called ‘blondies’ and the focus on our looks that way. But that’s more of a “meh, oh well” like what that Jewish guy in the video said. It’s not a huge bother, it just exists. Growing up in school I did hate anytime someone would make a dumb-blonde joke or comment on my mistakes and stupidity being expected because of my hair though, so it didn’t mean *nothing* to my little mind
totally agree. all women are fetishized!!! its a sexism problem and not a race proboem
What's a "darker mix"? And wym they're a mix of Hispanic and black (no whites). Dominicans are usually mixed in varying degrees with black and white and even native. And even white Dominicans exist (you didn't know that?) even though they're not that many and I'm not even including Dominicans who are sometimes called white but are really not. That's a whole other topic. And it's basically just the fact that it's a Spanish speaking country that makes it Hispanic, racial makeup is irrelevant to that. In other words you could theoretically be a Dominican who's 100% black and still be considered 100% Hispanic. Mixed with Hispanic and black is like saying mixed with white and American. Do you realize how that doesn't make any sense? I'm curious why you said that though, like how you process that even though it's definitely inaccurate. Of course I do realize the original meaning of Hispanic would be basically a Spaniard (probably a white person) similar to the term "Latin(o/a)" but at this point it's used to describe people from Hispanic/Latin American countries so that's practically the only meaning nowadays on a practical level to the point where often Spaniards aren't even included in that group.
Also idk if you could call that fetishization but it's more than just that in the DR. Many Dominicans consider people more attractive the lighter they are and if they're white even better. White people are pretty much put on a pedestal and considered superior and most attractive. Not saying all Dominicans think like that but it's too damn common to ignore or say that this preference is evenly spread out. And it's not just a healthy preference either. There's clearly some colonial damage in there. So idk if that qualifies as a fetish but even if it does at least there's a positive connotation to it (albeit TOO positive or negatively positive at the most if you will, to the point it's offensive to themselves and that definitely has to do with a mindset that's a result of colonialism) as opposed to fetishization of a group of people who some people consider basically good for sex and maybe attractive but inferior otherwise. Examples would be white supremacists who may still be into interracial sex and slave owners having relations or sexually abuse slaves even having children with them sometimes. Or white and other non black women who are into black guys just because of the whole BBC stereotype and they may or may not consider them equal but often aren't putting them on a pedestal as people other than penis size. Or sometimes not even considering them equals. Not saying being put on a pedestal just cuz of your race or skin color is ok cuz that's the other extreme too and can be annoying. I think a lot of people want to be treated equally like normal people and be judged based on that and not only they don't wanna have it worse but I like to think many don't wanna have it easier either just cuz they look a certain way.
Yeah exactly, being white literally meaning "Easy" for some reason. Also Using "White man or White girl" to make fun constantly is among the most racist stuff and no one ever says a thing. It's been so normalized.
@@sowhat... well said. I'd claim colorism before fetishizing. Clearly some damage from colonization. every point you made was valid.
Agreed. I’m extremely ethnically diverse though the racist Neo-Marxists label me as “white.” I’m asked all the time “what are you?” in regards to my ethnic origins. East Asians in particular (especially Koreans) love to pet me and play with my hair (my hair is ridiculously soft and contains every natural color; I’ve even had white patches since I was 20 - I’m calico lol). Black women have been the most aggressive regarding their attraction to me.
I have to laugh at the Jewish boy’s comments. Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group, so lumping him in with “white” is an odd choice and honestly reductive and borderline racist. Certainly there are white Jews and nonwhite Jews. There are also ethnic Jews. What’s the difference? Also, depending on age group between 80-90% of American men are circumcised especially if they’re non-Hispanic. Hispanic and Latino people who are of non-native ancestry (“white” Europeans) are also more likely to be circumcised. It’s an American custom at this point.
Skin color (Race) ≠ ethnicity ≠ nationality (in most cases).
I'm European-American, ginger, and female.
First, we are subjected to fetishism like no one else, both by others of our race and those of other races.
As a child, other *girls* were and still are curious about variation.
This was a subject that came up in the video repeatedly.
I never perceived questions by other girls, regardless of their race, as racism.
The reality is that young children don't perceive race nor understand racism. Variation is interesting. That's not racism.
The problems began as I grew older, as a teen, and then an adult. Males would approach me, often with lewd and provocative language, touching my hair and even running their fingers through it without permission.
The first time took me off guard. But all subsequent times were met with assertive rejection of bad behavior, verbally and physically. And that included inappropriate behavior by male students while I taught in the K12 setting.
Is this male privilege and fetishism? What about the fact that a high proportion of these badly behave males were a different race? Is that racism?
Secondly, it is now established medical fact that gingers, due to a unique gene sequence, react differently to various stimuli.
Stimuli can range widely, from anesthesia medication, contact with foods high in capsaicin Scoville units, and vision photosensitivity, to name only three examples.
Not being "taken seriously" even when communicating concerns or known factors is *not* unique to one single group. Claiming that is the case, and attributing it to "racsim" is absurd.
In January 2022, I experienced a dental emergency, resulting in swelling, life-threatening infection, and intense pain. My DDS examined me, determined I needed a root canal procedure, and prescribed medication to stabilize the infection.
His staff printed out the referral form I needed, and on giving it to me, he reminded me to disclise my medication interactions, and to have the surgeon call his office for more information as needed.
I made the appointment with the oral surgeon, and in the pre-surgery check-through, related to the oral surgeon that anesthesia takes longer to take effect, but also takes longer for full reversal. This has been a life-long situation I've experienced as a ginger, I related to him, and asked him to please consult with my DDS for questions.
He laughed in my face, saying, "Um, right, I'm sure everything will go fine as always," ignoring my concern.
It didn't go well.
The anesthesia took twice as long to take full effect. At the interval when the medication naturally subsides, it didn't for me.
I was partially conscious but paralyzed and could not react.
Technicians assisting the MD panicked, shaking me aggressively, trying to force me into full consciousness.
The doctor kept coming into the room, checking, and then said he was going to consult on reversal protocols.
I could hear all of this, but I could not open my eyes, speak, nor react.
When I was able to regain consciousness, the doctor came in to see me, and very nervously said, "You had us a bit concerned there for a while..." and I remember looking at and answering, "I warned you." All he could say was "Yes, you did."
Bottom line is that patient biology is unique, and doctors aren't magic people. They make mistakes, especially when it comes to the nuances of genetics that have been previously observed, but dismissed as anecdotal until yet more recent medical discoveries.
When people insist everything is "racism!" they stop looking for the *actual* variables influencing or impacting an outcome. That means we don't learn the actual reasons for what we observe, , and cannot properly and effectively address the perceived problem.
The mistake is compounded by imposing policies which change nothing. That's the risk we run by broadbrushing.
And, I know this from experience - my own and other people's.
Do you genuinely think that you're fetishised more than any other group?
@opheliascalzo1321 my own lived experience and those of other gingers I know suggests it's quite real, and intense. And in more than one case, malevolent.
The first time I experienced racism was at 12 years old. I meet a friend who was black...I just thought she had the coolest hair. She asked me over to house and her mom was so mad that to quote her mom is do not bring that white b. in this house. I at that time had no idea about color at that time. That left a mark on my soul.
Lol sure honey that never happened
@@steveboy7302 it most certainly did..
Wow that's so racist out of the mom... I hate they can get over it because they are black as if they couldnt be derogatory and racist... then they ask why people are racist to them! lol
Like the opposite of the Nina Simone song.
I believe it happened!! It's happened to me! I grew up in Baltimore MD. I was the only white girl in my SCHOOL!! I suffered a lot. But I also learned from a young age how to defend myself and not take crap from Anyone!! I also made some great friends too!!
Dude: Can you define racism and tell me who defined it?
Lady: **rambles for twenty minutes and doesn't answer the question**
I'm also glad the Jewish guy told us he was Jewish, like, seventeen times. That was helpful and necessary.
can you define racism and tell me who defined it?!!!! really?!!! can you define heterosexuality and tell me who define it? can you define journalism and tell me who define it??
@@mhorworshipper7456i don't know who's side your on but your avoiding the point of this comment it's about her using something called a "red herring" aka bringing the conversation off topic. Also to answer your question google defined it that's what he's saying not who wrote it but who/what did she get it from
@@simplicityd8703 google defined it? WTF?!!! I an older than google and racism existed way before… Racism: race -ism it is a term that was born to name the believe of people characteristics and traits are defined by their race and judged and discriminated based on that… I was Not eluding the question I was merely letting you know how absurd your post was…. I can define racism but I don’t know when it appeared as a recognized term in a dictionary nor who proposed the finally accepted oficial definition …. That doesn’t invalidate her opinion at all… can you tell me who defined it?…
@@simplicityd8703 racism means prejudice and discrimination of somebody based on their race… if you treat somebody badly because they are white is as racist as it is treating somebody badly because they are black… full stop
@@mhorworshipper7456 Sorry i meant google redefined it
I grew up in a fairly mixed area and definitely experienced racism. I was called Casper all the time, people would make comments about needing to put on their sunglasses because I was white. L that sort of thing. Starting in middle school, I can remember rejected for programs because of the color of my skin. The first one that I can remember was upward bound. I was brought into a room with another student, who happened to be a white young man, and the adults proceeded to tell us that we were rejected for the program. We were told that we were rejected because any available slots first go to any qualifying minority students, then to any non qualifying minority students and if there are any slots left they are offered to qualifying non minority students and unfortunately there were no slots left for non minorities this year. The other student started crying so hard. My mom's bosses daughter got in that year, even though both of her parents had doctorate degrees and they were extremely wealthy. The worst place that I ever saw racism, as an adult, was in a community that was not diverse and people were racist against others of the same race. Kids would be crying about how one person hated another person because they weren't dark enough.
I used to be called 'White as Snow' living here in New Mexico. Yeah totally not racist at all. And for any wondering, the context was not in any positive way whatsoever.
As I white looking person. It’s always blows my mind when someone is surprised my husband is black and feel the need to tell me he’s black. I’ve learnt to just tell them thank you for pointing that out, as I never noticed.
My husband is not as tall as I am and people, after 40 years, still need to tell me he is short. People will look for anything to make you try to feel less than them!
You could have a lot of fun with that. "What, he's black? Oh my God, you're right!" "It's OK, he thinks I'm black- don't tell him!" Or just give them a knowing smile of satisfaction.
I actually have been on the crazy side of racism being the target. Went to a predominantly black school once in middle school and once in highschool. They always thought i was white talking smack about white people then they find out im actually mexican and native american then they start calling me wet back redskin spic or border hopper. Like what. I have experienced more racism from black people and brown people than people think. I only had 1 white person neing racist to me in my life. Blacks and browns being racist to me were well over the hundreds. Hell i even got a failed jumping done against me. Its insane how those very people in this day in age cry racism. Now days white people are the least racist in my experience.
I've experienced more racism from black people too, and I'm a white latina. It's unfortunate, but the ppl who cry about racism the loudest are usually THE most racist period!
@@CubasAutomotive exactly!!! Its crazy. They fabricate a victim mentality thats not even close to be true about them.
Same, tbh. I do think there is something strange going on in society to make black people obsess over race instead of inclusive community.
@@AmmyNoUzume no fathers
Same.
It was so refreshing to see how respectful every last one of these people were not only with their ideas but with each other. It made me happy to see there still are people that can sit down together with different opinions and not be belligerent.
That's because they were all mormal, educated people that had rational and realistic cognizant thought.
You are so right. I am a white 58 yearold woman who grew up poor and I have struggled most of my life. I have not had the ability to go to school past my Jr year of high school. I had to leave school jr year to help my parents with money so I went to work. The young woman you talked about who has all these great things accomplished seems to have had more oppertunities than I have ever had so i feel insulted when I am judged as previlaged just because I am white. I have a relative and a couple of friends who are police officers and I can tell you they treat all races the same when doing trafice stops or called to a resident. It upsets me to know the white race along with other races played a part in slavery. I get upset when I see someone treated badly no matter if it is due to race, age or lack of wealth. I think BLM stirred the pot and made it worse by pushig the narative that all whites have previlage and are racist. BLM has cheated their own race by missmanaging the funds that should have helped the black community. I am so glad there are those like yourself who look at it all realisticly not just believing what you are spoon fed from those who have their own agenda's which require people to believe that it is such a black v white issue. They need to also realise a bad cop treats other white people badly as well. They look down on white people who have low income the same as other races.
The thing that really grinds my gears is that woman who presents herself as such an “enlightened individual” but has *zero* idea how to empathize with other peoples experiences. It’s all about her experience, all about what a word means *to her*. What she does, caught in real time on video, is literal gaslighting to excuse racism.
I am Cuban, with a very diverse heritage, I don't remember experiencing racism. I grew up in the 80s, and things were different back then, people were happy. I appreciate you acknowledging the other side of your heritage. It is important to embrace both cultures.
So I was a recruiter for The Army in the early 2000s. I was 1 of 2 white recruits in an office of 10 recruiters. The other 8 were black recruiters. Now we are a military force of many nationalities for a common goal. I had the other recruiters say within hearing distance, “I love putting white people in the Army so they can go overseas and die”. Yeah that’s racism. It’s hate towards another based upon the color of their skin. I had black people come into the station. I would stand up stick my hand out to shake theirs. Ask how are you how can I help you today. They would ignore me and walk right to a black recruiter. The recruiter they went to they did not know. I felt it was very disrespectful. Was that racism towards me. I felt it was. So in short racism is racism no matter what color you are. Hate is hate. It all starts in the home. Teach your kids to love one another. Respect one another. And this topic of racism will diminish. As far as systematic racism. I have had way more black or Hispanic supervisors than white. If racism be it traditional or systematic exist how is that possible? Just sick of people treating others like crap.
"I can't get a job because of my skin color"
Maybe your interviewer sensed that attitude within you and didn't want to deal with it in their workplace.
If you think your color affects the way people perceive you, it will.
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Great wisdom.
100% with you on that.
You create your reality
False to statistics. Are black people are and certain a neighborhood's more likely to be unhealthy? Well that's very difficult to tell when you're watching a 600-lb Life marathon with all white people. Being unhealthy causes in a aggravates all your problems
FACTS
You can call whatever you want but time and time again we’re proven that using the definition “racism is racism no matter the history” leads to people to treat everyone well and with respect while the convoluted “ racism is systemic” definition consistently shows to give non white people excuses to treat anything close to whiteness like worthless trash. At the end, that’s what matters. actions and it’s result matter more than words. And the results are as transparent as water in the state of our society.
Gosh that woman smiles with pride the moment she uses those buzzwords. They do like to pat themselves on the back when they think they know more. Lol
I can’t believe she (46:40) used graduating during a global job shortage mid pandemic as proof of racism
I know i was thinking the exact same thing!!!! 😂
That retired police officer is like a shining light among the crazies and its very refreshing
Its sad he is old though. It shows a level of maturity that the younger folks are yet to reach. And I kind of wonder if we are ever going to reach this level of critical thinking as more and more leftist propaganda spews out. It’s not about getting stuff from the source anymore, it’s about getting it from someone else, which is dangerous because we interpret things differently based on how we think. People need to learn how to read things verbatim.
I lived in Mexico till I was around 6 or 7 which is when I immigrated to Canada. My entire family has experienced racism at some point during our life there; my dad faced a life filled with classism and colorism since he is a darker tone. I was told that I'd be prettier with my mom's skin tone. And my mom would get catcalled in the street, and racist remarks and stereotypes during her 13 years of living there. The most stupid thing about this is if I go forward and say "racism applies to all races, white included" most people will be accepting of my perspective. If a white person goes forward and says the same thing they'll get backlash and will get shit on for being "white privileged." I don't understand why people have to live in such a savior complex that they now completely deny racism towards lighter-skinned people. So dumb
Some people still try to find ways to call people out for saying white people experience racism even though they themselves aren't white and mentioning a fact.
They usually try to call you "white empathizer" or "grifter"
It's so dumb. Even if you're someone standing up from a group that says those things, people still find a way to be mad and call you wrong
It's sad
Sorry Amala I am sick of hearing about this subject, but I’ve learned if show the police officer respect and follow instructions not give them attitude it will go well.
The definition that white people only experience bias and prejudice is exactly what is being taught in our schools in Canada too. In fact, my son had a reading assignment where he was to answer questions framed in such a way where students could only answer them with the info they were given. They were not able to use their own reasoning.
I have been denied service at a store because I guess I didn't look like I was their type of client. I have been wrongfully pulled over by a cop only to have him wrongfully take me to court and lie under oath about what I did. If I was any other color I could easily say those people were racist! But I'm white.... so what was it? Sometimes bad things happen because people are jerks, no matter your skin color!
And yes, there have been moments in my life where I was accused of my white privilege by those who do not believe white people can experience racism. They were also the same people that called me blind to my white privilege, a white supremacist, a nazi and cussed me out for my ignorance. Why? because I had the gull to express that we should do all we can to build each other up and that I see skin color like I see eye or hair color. Our skin color doesn't make us inherently good or evil. It does however show evidence of our heritage, of our ancestral line.
No where is it taught in schools how there are others, not just white Christians, who used their religion and power to conquer and enslave others.
i beg you pardon, I am white, I am not a racists.. I have experience being laugh about because of my nationality by others and yes, we have met biggots in our lives too, but if you believe white privilegie doesn't exists or that your life is as difficult as black people lives, or Native American´s or any other race or ethnicity in occidental countries, you are truly blind.... that doesn't mean I´ll allow anybody to insult me (being called a racists is an insult to me) or harass me in any way
I experienced race fetichism myself as a blond white girl when I travelled in Senegal (West African Coast). People would call me "Tubabu" to refer to my pale skin, child in remote villages would run after me touching my hair and my skin. At the time, I felt deeply uncomfortable because I was only 6 years old and these were strangers to me. It was even frightening. However, now that I am an adult, I understand that was curiosity, sometimes disgust (it was rare but it happened, especially about my freckles), sometimes awe. I could have felt it as racism, but it was not. I was just different than what they were used to see, and I get that now. The real issue of priviledge in the US isn't race, it's class. I would advise anyone to read Nancy Isenberg "White Trash" to understand this point.
Also, about the social science studies: most of the time studies look at correlations between variables. The causation(if any) is made out of the researcher. Hence, it is up to these people's perceptions that causations are established. When it's racism, it's because someone decided to cutting edges any explanations by establishing this as causation because it's usually an easy way to go (like in regular debates by the way). Does not mean it's false, but does not mean it's true either. That's why I like this channel, Amala is always nuanced and I appreciate that.
My husband went to get a college loan many years ago. The office he went to LITERALLY told him if he were black, he could do something for him. But since he was white and his father owned his own business--he was not living with his father and was over 20 years old at the time--they couldn't help him. Racism exists against ALL races. It's usually by individuals and is not systemic, but it exists. And it will always exist, which is simply a fact. So if you run into it, I agree with what you've said, Amala: walk away and don't use it as your crutch. Stop letting it define you and keep you down be your own person.
That is not racism but economics. Assuming that the office could help a black person, regardless of economics is a lie. My daughter (over 20) is black and couldn't get a help because we made too much money. They count the parents' income when looking at giving out financial help.
There is truth there. But there is also situations where there are more sources to pull money from for minority. But economically is a factor.
I went to a high school that was 80% black, 15% Asian or other race, and I was in the 5% white. My neighborhood and city had similar demographics. I never experienced racism at my school personally but did witness it at my school (in multiple directions- from white to black and black to white, and even other racial directions based on other races). What I did experience personally was when I got punched in the face and called a snow white b****. This was for telling a kid he had to leave the public pool for at least a short while for screaming obscenities at other pool goers when I was working my first lifeguard job in the neighborhood. The other lifeguards and the manager turned their heads and allowed me to be punched because I was the only white girl around. I talked to the manager after and she apologized to me and said it wasn’t right, but yes, I was not stood up for because I was white. She suggested I not stay around when I graduated high school because I would continue to be treated this way because I was white. I personally feel I have experienced racism as a white person with this. Frankly, it has never changed my deep belief that everyone is equal and deserves the same treatment as long as they show the same respect back. However, the experience has deepened my belief that anyone can experience racism no matter what their color, and that it is wrong on any level. We are ALL different and unique, and we all deserve respect, kindness, and empathy. This means we ALL need to check ourselves and reflect on our own behavior to ensure we aren’t propagating things like racism. No one, no matter the situation to be a good or bad outcome, should be judged with the color of their skin as a factor in the judgment. I am worried kids these days aren’t getting that message. They are instead told to think of racism based on the view of their personal race alone, which to me is a racist way to combat racism itself.
the concept of race should be completely eliminated
Hey Amala,
As someone who studies history and does archaeology for an actual living, it would be a blast for me to somehow come onto your show or call in and do part of a segment with you and discuss these things in greater detail. I always find myself using the same historical points ALL OF THE TIME when I deal with Liberals on history. They use revisionist history. I use actual history.
Hope you're doing well and I hope you read this comment.
About being an Oreo, I just want to make the point that that's not always how it's used. I'm fully black, and as a teenager it was a joke at my expense, to mean black in appearance and culturally/behaviourally white. I was white to my peers because I liked predominantly white artists, because I didn't like to use "black" slang much, because I liked "white" things like shopping at Holliser. It was hurtful to me as a teenager because I didn't understand how being myself took away my ability to be truly black. Black, white, or any other race should never come into your personality and interests. It's genetics, and that's the end of it.
I know we can laugh at stereotypes in comedy and things like that, but hearing for years tha I'm not black really did damage to me, it made me fear hanging out with people who did look like me because I didn't feel like enough as a black person. People around me made me see my race more when I didn't care about it as much in the past
Sorry you experienced that. I can kind of relate. I'm from UK and I didnt hear the term coconut or bounty until I started to hang out with black people. Also then learnt the word sell out and wigga. White people werent using those words. It was black people in UK using them towards other black people. I even ended up using the term wigga about other white people despite I had insecurities over my race based on those same ppl being racist and saying "you think you're black" etc because "you dance black". Not sure how else I was meant to dance to urban music. As a result I wanted to be black in my mid teens because I felt I wasnt allowed to be myself because of my race. Race became a qualifier as to whether I was allowed to act/speak a certain way. This ish gets handed down and people repeat it like I did and it was racist no matter who used it or how..
im an oreo too and i can relate
I'm a literal Oreo, biracial -- and I can testify that some of the harshest comment about how I acted came from mostly black people.. but only ever the "ghetto" ones. And now I avoid anyone who acts like that, but because of it I'm called racist even tho I avoid all races that act this way. People who purposely act dumb because they think it's cute are some of the message and judgemental people I have ever met, and sadly most of them are black for me and that might make me sound racist, but I'm not. Telling an experience isn't racist.
I’m white, born in Africa, moved to the US to go to college. While there, in an English class, this teacher was going on about how racism is about power and privilege and therefore black people couldnt be racist.
So I asked, “so since I have no rights or privilege, or at least way less of that than any American, does that mean I can’t be racist?”
Obviously, they didn’t go with that.
But it was very clear that uh… it was still actually about discrimination based on skin colour, not this poor attempt to sound intellectual and hide the issue lol
My best friend through elementary school to now is mixed, and so am I, but she's a lot darker than I am. I remember being with her and her sisters and them all laughing because I looked too white to go to a couple of our other friends' houses. Their uncle didn't want me at his house either. I was teased for being too white. I was told that my hair and skin were "watered down." Yeah, it bothered me at the time and felt shitty. However, I already understood even as a child , people can be really terrible for no reason.
Ask any cop. A simple “domestic disturbance” call is definitely NOT a cake-walk nor are they “simple”. The participants can be some of the most insane and dangerous people - if only in that circumstance in that location - than any. I know of a cop that was having a reasonable conversation with the couple when the husband suddenly reached down, pulled the cops gun and shot him in the head. (The dude’s defense was he didn’t think cops walked around with loaded guns.) How many social workers would want to go into a situation like that?
the left want to abolish police and prisons and replace them with social workers which would backfire and reuslt in social workers being popped full of lead
None of them. Social workers where involuntarily thrown into all of this.
Domestic violence calls are probably THE most unpredictable, dangerous calls cops can respond to. Hell, sometimes they can be fighting each other and then turn on the person trying to break them up!
And why would cops carry guns if they weren't loaded?! I can't even believe that could be a "defense". Like either they're pistol toting racists, "killing black people without reason", or they're walking around with unloaded guns that are useless and kill nobody. You can't have both.
Domestic calls are actually the most dangerous calls a cop goes to.
I’ve faced a lot of racism in my life as a white person, unfortunately mostly recently probably because of white hate brought on by blm which is very sad to me because all I’ve ever done is respect black people because I respect everyone until they give me a reason to not respect them, and no skin color could never be one of the reasons
Yeah right 😂
@@crazychicSHENA yep, right.
@@crazychicSHENA your ego needs trimming
@@crazychicSHENA you don’t have to be black to face racism.
@@crazychicSHENA get off your high horse and get back down to earth for one minute
In 2018, a HOMELESS African American teen in Philadelphia, Richard Jenkins, 18, earned a full free-ride scholarship to Harvard. He stayed in school, and graduated valedictorian of his class. He made the choice to work hard and study, and he changed his life without ANY of the resources that we all seem to expect to have as ordinary people in this country. How many young people blame someone, anything BUT themselves, for their lack of success? If Mr Jenkins can do it, why can't others? Maybe they'd rather play the victim card, because they just don't want to do the work. "Oh, waaa! Everyone is holding me down!" Come on! Someone should tell them to have some REAL dignity and self respect, please!
As soon as she said, "on a systemic level," she ABSOLUTELY lost me!
"The police should not be policing themselves." - This! I completely agree with this.
I'm a GenX white looking guy (my father was very dark and my mother was white as snow) and my generation, along with I'm guessing most Millennials too, were taught to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. We accepted this easily because of both it's unassailable Humanism and it's appeal to the fundamental sense of fairness all humans, and even other mammals, share. By extension judging anyone by their immutable characteristics is anathema to our thinking. To put it succinctly: If you judge someone by their race, ethnic background, sex, sexuality, disability, or any other non-choice you are on the wrong side, period. There are no exceptions.
This new generation are fighting the battles of past and are ignoring the real issue: the inequity of socioeconomic status. If you are poor in the Western world, regardless of race, the system is against you. Poverty, and even just low income, is punished in our country no matter how hard you work. Our systems underserve the bottom half, nickel & diming anyone unlucky enough to be born with less and keeping the vast majority down. Solve this, actually solve it, we need to truly level the economic playing field by provide equal access to the same quality of education, medical care, security, and opportunity regardless of socioeconomic status (ie. schools and services in poor neighborhoods are exactly as well funded, staffed, and run as in wealthy neighborhoods) and we will see the end of "systemic" racism because these are the tools of those that still truly are racists. This is by no means a call to Communism or full on Socialism, we can do this without resorting to "equity" principals across the board, there is no need to cut anyone down to raise everyone up. We just need to make it a national/cultural priority to invest in providing this level field to everyone and let each individual make of it what they can. Imagine the potential of our nation(s) if everyone really had a chance to excel even if they were born to a low socioeconomic group. This is the future of equality everything else is window dressing.
Very interesting....,
Oh bs. A millennial crybaby generation that thinks they are not racist.
Thank you. You said everything that I feel, too. I feel race is being weaponized so the people can fight each other instead of focusing on banding together to help the betterment of our country and how the people within it are treated. But, it's sad to see how Willing a lot of people are to immediately judge someone else based on their race. It's like people were all too ready to give up their morals and integrity to say "No, I want everything to be about me, and to hell with any and everyone else". The world just feels so gross now😔. (I'm sorry - I know this was a rambling sort of comment, and I probably didn't word how I feel very well...😆😆) I'm also Gen X, and am so grateful for growing up when I did.
I'd argue that I see it as fairly disabling to reduce ones own skill of discernment to and judgement if others to topical, arbitrary factors and all but ignore the more telling behavioral cues like apparel, posture/demeanor, and meaningful use of language.
Rule of thumb: If you have hate in your heart for someone based on color you are racist. Never judge people based on what you're told, base your opinions on your experience with someone
Your experience could definitely affect how you hear things unfortunately. Thats also another thing more people need to be aware of.
@@stellamariefanboy.6768 Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. I only judge by things that affect me directly
I was one of a few white people in my school system outside of Atlanta, GA. People asked to touch my "white girl hair" alllllll the time. It didn't help that it's also super long. 😂 And of course some of them didn't ask! The number of times I turned around feeling tugging and some boy has his fingers stuck in my hair is hilarious. I always said it was fine, unless I had curled it, then I'd tell them to be careful lol. It honestly started a lot of conversations and friendships. The questions I got were "how long does it take you to brush/wash/do your hair?" and so on. It was just a sharing of cultures imo.
Hell no you can't let somebody just put their hands on you uninvited. You have to have boundaries and refused to let people
One time I went to a family reunion of my unofficially adopted moms family in South Side Chicago (long story there). I was one of the few Caucasian person amongst hundreds of African Americans. All the little kids wanted to touch and feel my hair. One kid grabbed a lighter and tried to burn some because he didn't think it was real. LOL!
I am a biracial person myself and I'm half indian half Greek and I really felt understood when the 2 biracial girls said it was hard for them to fit in people often asked my indian mother if I was adopted I could never really fit in with the white girls and I also struggled to fit in with the indian girls
But being biracial makes me appreciate all races it allows me to understand different perspectives and I love that
Both equally as hairy lol
I find that calling someone racist is very much used as a crutch for someones lack of motivation to better themselves.
Im white and live in London. I love how diverse it is. Years ago i saw women in a salon in Brixton through the window and they were all laughing and seemed friendly and it looked like a place ide like to go. I walked in and did notice i was the only white person. I spoke to one of the ladies and she said none of the stylists can do my hair. Immediately i thought it was because i was white and she saw this. She was so wonderful and explained to me with thee most amazing smile and compassion that its not because im white but because the young staff in the salon at that time hadnt been trained in Caucasian hair yet and she told me to come back the next day.
Wonderful women and i left smiling and still think about them and that situation over 10yrs later.
Sorry for the down vote -accident. Wife's yelling at me to come to bed~. Snuggle time!!
I grew up with a large mix of races. White people were pretty much a minority. I’m biracial and experienced hateful racism from black kids. Some of them were my “friends”. I experienced racism from white kids but as well but it wasn’t as aggressive. I also had a lot of friends of all races who weren’t racist.
I didn’t like my hair (I love it now) but I’ve always loved my race. & I was blessed with green eyes lol
I've got blue eyes and hated them as a kid and wanted green/hazel eyes like my sisters.
@@DarkAngel2512 I think blue eyes are gorgeous!
@@pamelarangel7104 thanks. So do I now. 😁
I am white, male and live in the UK.
I have had stones thrown at me and been called a white See You Next Tuesday.
In the UK everybody knows the name Stephen Lawrence, a 17 year old black boy beaten to death, by alleged racists.
Hardly anybody knows the name Ross Parker, a 17 year old white boy stabbed to death by a gang of Asian Muslims out to "get a white boy".
There are a number of similarities between these cases. And a number of differences. One was all over the news, the other was subject to a news black out.
I've been refused services in an all black salon. I went into the mall in Augusta Georgia to get a hair cut. I'm white with naturally curly hair that I straighten. So it's quite large and their were at least 14 women in there at chairs, some had customers but most did not. Every single lady in there was black. So I asked for a cut to be done on my hair dry, already straightened. She said I'll check, please have a seat. She came back and said there were no openings. So I wandered around the mall and found a small salon that one beautiful black lady was cutting a white man's hair. I asked her if she could cut my dry straightened hair. She said yes, that's how blacks get their hair cut all the time. So she cut my hair. That was several years ago and that was definitely in my top 3 cuts in my life. I'm really glad that I was turned away, can you imagine the butchered hair cut I would have gotten. They didn't want to take me because I had white skin.
Love it, sadly this isn’t normal…I’ve had to facilitate many inclusion meetings in the military as an NCO and it always turn into…”your a white Christian male and just needs to shut up and let us express our anger and frustrations”. The military is falling apart…I’ve seen awards be decided on race, gender and sexual preferences by leaders because…”the young black gay females feel like they are not recognized”. Everyone deserves a trophy generation, cry enough get what you want. Sorry but this young generation has lost it, no one cares, no one is looking at you, judging you, out to get you, they just don’t care. That old white dude doesn’t care who you want to sleep with. he’s looking at you cause you’re in line in front of him at the store…that’s it.
I'm black and I work in the medical field. Imho, the idea that they don't give black birthing mother's pain meds because they're black, is ludicrous.
Yet that is the experience many mothers have gone through.
@@chinezeolisah1308 Not true. Black women get all emotional and think it's because of race. The idea is laughable.
@@theoriginalthinker9199 your comment is exactly the reason such bias exists. I’m guessing that you are a black man. Firstly black women are less emotional than white women and they are the least likely to complain about pain and they have less addiction to pain medications than white women. My hubby is a doctor and to hear him and his colleagues jokingly make comments like black/African women do not feel pain and they don’t get depressed tells the story of how black women are treated in the hospital versus their white counterparts because we do feel pain and we do get depressed. My first 2 children, I was nit given any pain medication for the labour. Absolutely None at all.
@@chinezeolisah1308 Okay, in my op I said I was black, so obviously you didn't have to guess and um,
"Firstly black women are less emotional than white women."
I must say, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
And by the way, I don't have to guess. I KNOW you're a black woman, or at the very least, overly sympathetic to black causes. Also, you're lying. I've worked alongside Drs for over 30 years. No Dr would ever say black women don't feel pain. And if you weren't given pain medication, it has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with the orders your Dr wrote and why.
@@theoriginalthinker9199 I even doubt you have worked with Drs because if you have, you will know that they are less likely to prescribe pain medication for black women. I didn’t know how serious it was until I joined a post natal group on social media populated by black women and women of African origin. To see so many women ask for solutions to relive pain immediately after delivery even those who gave birth through a Caesarian is just disturbing. No I have no situation medical or otherwise precluding me from having pain medications. They just didn’t want to give me one.
I'm a very blonde blue-eyed woman from the Netherlands. And i have experienced racism from people who are of Surinam or Antilles (decent). Which were Dutch colonies, way back, in case you don't know.
I guess these 'black' people have some kind of hatred toward 'white' people out of their 'community'? I don't know, how could I. It saddens me that i can hardly get in normal contact with them, because they're so 'on guard'.
Recently i got a call from an unknown number, and i heard some teenage girls asking me who i was, and why my number was in her contacts.
And according to my name they assumed i had to be white.
One girl in the background shouted: "She's a tatta!". The girl on the phone replied: "No way, my mom doesn't have tatta's as friends!"
I have never in my life heard this word before. I've looked it up: It's their curse word for white people. The opposite of the N-word.
Later i remembered that i gave this lady in the street my phone number when my daughter went on a birthdayparty of her daughter, which was ages ago. She must have passed her phone to one of her kids.
How can you possibly know what a call is going to be like until you get there. I have heard from many cops that domestic violence and domestic abuse calls are some of the most dangerous. Very volatile.
I remember growing up in the 90s and the woke talking point was that black communities were under policed, and that the oppression was indifference. We needed to lift up the black communities by giving them the police representation they deserved. Fast forward 30 years and now the problem is too many police. They can't keep their story straight. I think it's entirely possible that a lot of the systemic problems are due to individuals making bad choices. I also think people make a lot of stupid assumptions. Bad things happen to all of us. If I were in a quote unquote victim class and viewed myself as a victim I would interpret those bad things as oppression even though it normally isn't. I have been and am regularly treated badly all the time and I am not black. The truth is people are rude all the time not because they are racist per se, but because they are selfish and put themselves before others.
You must be crazy. Black communities are always over policed. Look at prisons since the beginning of the 1900s until now lol
"I remember growing up in the 90s and the woke talking point was that black communities were under policed, and that the oppression was indifference. We needed to lift up the black communities by giving them the police representation they deserved. Fast forward 30 years and now the problem is too many police."
I'm black and I know full well what you are talking about. The problem was housing projects had been totally overrun by crack cocaine. Black mayors who had huge strongholds of housing projects failed to take decisive efforts to control and eradicate the problem. Black folk like Coretta Scott King here in Atlanta were the biggest proponents for a federal crime bill. So did the congressional black caucus. And thats the unapologetic truth.
To blame this on the police makes you do ignorant there are no statistics that say black people are more prone to police violence. An if you actually look up civilians killed by police there is not one year where Africans or Latinos had more deaths than Caucasians, Caucasians had almost 2x the amount of deaths. Do you not realize these crimes, mass shootings and looting/protesting is done in democratic states with democratic elected officials and they are tougher on police rather than crime, have the strictest gun laws but also carry the highest murder and crime rates? I bet you didn't. Keep your liberal agenda to the north and we will keep out agenda in the south quit trying to push democratic/ liberal views on other people, everybody brings race and violence into every argument and now we are throwing gender in to, where does it stop? It's gotten out of control and if the "woke culture" continues and there are not more people standing up we will be a 3rd world country in a decade or two. This is economically and socially dividing this country.
I grew up in the 90s in UK mostly hanging out with black people including Indian and Arabic and race was never a factor in our lives except for dating preference. So sad how ppl in UK caught a cold when America sneezed.
@@bromack3 in the 90s in UK people would bun crack in the clubs and my ex was a crack-head/dealer and many friends did crack. Most of my friends grew out of it and dont know anyone now who does crack. The trend kind of faded out
As a respiratory therapist who's worked in the labour and delivery unit, I've never seen epidurals not given to someone because of their race. I have no idea where she pulled that information from. It's not something we learned in our clinical placements, or in the classroom, and I've been doing this for 10+ years.
Nobody has more opinions on police and how to do their job other than people who never have done it and aren't capable
I have never been screwed over by a black cop in my life and I am over three decades old, however I have been screwed over by Mexican and white cops. I have been falsely charged with crimes twice in just three years, both very serious offenses. Two class A’s and a 2nd degree felon. Fortunately, I had black judges and they dismissed all of them.
Both those incidents came from myself calling the police for help in self defense situations. They came late ultimately forcing me to have to take matters into my own hands or perish. When they finally showed up they always sided with the criminals. Your love for the police is missed place my friend! By the way, I have paper work to testify to my claims.
@@cameron7498 good for you. I didn't say all caps are perfect or good.
Amala says lots of stupid things, especially, with her great college education, and yet she professes not to know why unarmed Whites who are killed by cops are not in the news like Black victims. Why? Do you know? Because Whites are more gullible than Blacks. The cops lied to Tony Timpa's mother about his death and the tape revealing the truth did not come out until two years later, which is the norm, that is, cops lie like dogs to cover their evil deeds. But in the case of Black victims, we have ambulance chasers like Al Sharpton and Ben Crump to expose the cops. That is the difference. Ironically though, here’s a rhetorical question for you, Amala. Who benefited most from the Civil Rights Act of 1964? White women. So, if BLM succeeds in holding White cops accountable for murdering unarmed Black citizens, who will benefit most? White citizens because in raw numbers White cops murder more unarmed White citizens without being held accountable. Wake up, please.
@@cameron7498 Let me guess, you don't live in Atlanta. If you did, you would know that black cops are far worse than white ones. I would much rather deal with a white policeman than a black one any day of the week.
@@cameron7498 emotional lol
When I was in first grade, my mother put me on a soccer team, and there was this one girl who was black, and her hair was very curly. One day, I just kind of asked if I could touch her hair. She said yes, I touched it, thought ‘cool’ and said thank you. I was just curious, and didn’t understand that could be rude, but she was very nice about it. All of the other girls on the soccer team thought it was okay to do it too, and they began touching her hair without asking. To this day, I still feel guilty about what happened.
She likely didnt care as this hair thing didnt start until about 5 years ago. I grew up with black people for about three decades. Never heard this hair thing until very recently.
I'm sorry the memory of that still bothers you. (I know I certainly have things in my past that I still feel guilty about too.) I don't know if this will help you feel any better, but I'm a white woman, and I have very thick, curly, dark blonde hair that I wear long and and always have. When I was in elementary school, I had a number of times where other kids - once in a while, even adults - asked to touch my hair. I didn't mind that. Sometimes they started touching my hair without asking, and I would have to turn around and give them a look like, "Really?" They usually apologized sheepishly. There was one memorable instance where one other girl in the class, trying to be funny, stuck a small, stubby pencil in my hair when she was sitting behind me. My hair is thick enough that I honestly didn't feel it...until she started trying to look for her pencil which my hair had promptly swallowed and hidden. She then had to sheepishly explain to the class what she had been doing because she was interrupting the teacher (and I thought that was only fair on my hair's part :) ).
I certainly can't speak for anyone else, and certainly not for the girl in your story since everyone experiences things differently, but I learned quickly that my hair was just different, and people were curious. I usually wound up enjoying the compliments and conversations in the end, even when people were too forward about trying to touch it at first. Again, I don't know if that helps you, but I hope that it does, at least in a small way.
She probably was incredibly irritated by random thoughtless silly people touching her hair without permission but was just too polite to say
Not to mention I was a skinny nerdy white kid that went to a mostly hispanic/latino public schools and fuck yes racism towards white people very much exists and I'd even go as far to say it's probably the most widespread issue of racism that exists today.
In the 80's my sister went to a Catholic girls school in East London. She is white and was a minority at that school. She had to learn to fist fight just to get through the week at that school because of bullying from black girls at that school. The teachers did nothing for fear of retribution even back then. When I had to leave home because of violence from from my stepfather, I called the local council housing department for assistance. I was told because I was male, white and working that I would not receive any assistance in accessing any housing services. I ended up renting a room privately and that was only because a friend had a spare room in his flat as I couldn't afford to rent privately. Obviously what we went through isn't racism simply because that was aimed at white people according to some people. What would you call it?
It’s literally almost impossible to fire ANY government employees - teachers unions are just as bad…postal workers, ALL civil service employees have gotten protected - not just law enforcement officers!
I was thinking the same thing. I'm usually not one to pile on criticisms of Police, but labor unions are a problem in and of themselves in many professions.
yup, its called qualified immunity. They fall under that. Politicians fall under ABSOLUTE immunity! it's written inn Virgnia Law that politicians if there is a session going on, you can't issue a ticket or make an arrest 2 weeks prior and 2 weeks after :)
It's racist to categorise about 100 different nationalities of people white.
Irish, English, German, Russian, Scottish, French, Greek, Latvian etc.. We are all different and put in one basket as the same. Disgraceful.
so calling them cracker, white boy, gringo etc. isn’t racist?
I said the same and included my two personal favs. Unfortunately here in neverland adults can't speak freely.
read vanilla the lines go rilla
I don't believe any words can be racist... Hate speech is BS!
@New Life New Rules It's not so much about being emotionally weak, it's the hypocrisy and double standards. Sure, if someone called a white person a cracker they might bust out laughing in their face, but still. How are you going to claim that words hurt and are violence then turn around and say something bad to someone else? What happened to "practising what you preach"? What happened to "do to others as you want them to do to you"?
@@abbiereynolds8016 Exactly, I don't get offended at being called cracker or any of the newer "slurs"(from tiktok and twitter). Its just a double standard, you cant be mad at someone for doing something, and then you just going off and copying, it's a repeating cycle of double standards and victim blaming. Reminds me of a kindergartener classroom. Pointing fingers.
I was one of only a few white kids on my bus. I definitely learned that racism came with age. The black kids that were elementary age LOVED me. At least one kid played with my hair everyday! And I was totally okay with that. However the older black kids (girls) on the bus did not like me because I was white. I was told in not so nice terms that I was not allowed to sit in the back of the bus. I was “accidentally” pushed and my hair was “accidentally” pulled on a regular biases. I was devastated because I was nice to everyone but that didn’t matter. I was still kind to those who treated me poorly regardless. A year after I graduated high school the main girl who was mean to me apologized. She said that she realized how bad she was to me just because I was “the white girl”. It’s not something I can forget but I forgave her when I was a kid. I think that racism is treating someone poorly strictly because of their skin tone. Prejudice is prejudice, just was wrong is wrong. We all need to do better, be better.
agreed
I've been called a YT by one of my own cousin's wives, for explaining the actual history behind braiding hair, and where it also originated- how African-Americans did not start braiding their hair before anyone else. It is just as much a part of my heritage (Celt) as hers. And for that, she threw out a racial slur.
Good for you for saying something! The fact that some people think that braiding your hair appropriating black culture is insane….. Celts, Vikings, etc…… do people really not know of these cultures?
@@Familytoyreview426 Greeks and Egyptians as well.
Every ethnicity is racist towards others. It's an instinctual part of protecting the group you belong to. It is therefore not inherently evil, but needs to be channelled alongside with mutual appreciation, the same as man and woman are different, but learn how to appreciate each other's qualities.
What you are describing is not racism. What makes you think protecting one groups is racism. Racism is when you hate or discriminate another race. You are oversimplifying racism.
@@lisah3460 in practically every culture foreigners, not only those of different ethnicity, are being treated as second class citizens, unless they are instrumental in promoting the nation they visit, which is the case e.g. with tourism. There is a natural fear and/or aversion against the "other". That's why virtues like hospitality rank very high in Judaism and other Middle Eastern cultures, because having experienced "being a stranger in Egypt", the foreigner, even the Canaanite slave, receive special consideration and protection, contrary to natural inclination.
I don't believe that racism is institutionalised in any country.
Laws against illegal immigration and borders are obviously not signs of racism.
That's only if you believe you have to belong to a group.
@@terseandtiny1746 it's called social structures like family, community, nation, ethnicity, belief system etc. They promote human excellence, vs. modern Western individualist isolationism. Everything has potential for either good or not so good. It's up to us. E.g. family structures and values can be used to promote growth of the individual, or to stifle it, G-d forbid. It's like the internet; it's not either good or bad. It's up to you whether you e.g. learn a language online, or watch porn.
Same with "groups". A soccer team and a symphony orchestra are groups. Jews, Chinese, or vegans are groups. Groups are mere containers that contain helpful, or toxic content. And, all extremes are harmful, unless used towards a healing process, but as soon as healing has been achieved we should stop taking the medicine.
Tearing down social structures is a medicine against bigotry and oppression of sorts. It's not an end in itself.
@@lisah3460 Yes and it is not only white people who can be this way. For all the black people who say that it is only white when they know damn well they dislike everyone but their own..
As a white person I affirm: whites suffer racism.
I'm tired of being labeled fascist/bourgeois/racist for the simple fact of being born white.
In addition to also having my political views ignored for the simple fact that I am not black. That old argument that "you never had a hard time" (even though I'm a middle-class person with a lot of bank debt)
The number of complaints you have does not mean you are a bad officer unless the complaints are upheld. Anyone can say anything about you and it goes in your file even if it’s proved that you are innocent of the claim. My first ever complaint was when there was a car accident and one of the people involved had a heart attack and fell out while I was conducting my interviews. I began doing CPR trying to save her life and the other driver kept demanding that I answer her questions about the accident. I finally looked up and said in a in a firm voice “ma’am I do not have time for you right now” and then went back to doing compressions. The woman who had the heart attack ultimately died. The other woman went to my supervisor and filed a complaint on me while I was still trying to save the other woman’s life in her line of sight. She said I was rude and unprofessional. It’s still in my file. People are petty and every single person you deal with is mad and having a bad day and wants to blame someone so complaints pour in if you actually do work. The only way you don’t get complained on is you spend your whole career avoiding calls.
If your race is 'hegla' and someone doesn't like you because of that, it's racism. White, black, brown, green, purple, orange, yellow, 'hegla'. If the action or idea is racist when applied to one race, than that action or idea is racist when applied to ANY race.
This is a simple yes or no question. Everything else is obfuscation, and we need to eschew obfuscation.
I'm totally on board with your idea to integrate history into your show. Love the idea. Great show.
I love your channel Amala. You cut right to the heart of hot topics and still manage to remain entertaining and pleasant. I admire the way you articulate your perspectives, maintain a high degree of logic and clarity. I very much appreciate your thoughtful viewpoints and your on point dialog.
The first time I got called racist was when I was just six years old. It was during the time of the 2008 elections and my friend and I were regurgitating the political views of our parents. I said my parents were voting for Romney and my friend, who was also a white little girl but had parents voting for Obama, called me racist because my parents 'didn't want to vote for a black man'.
thats so weird. You are not your parents. I'm sorry that happened