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Title: Race humor: forbidden? How you experienced racial differences growing up
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Published: Jun 30, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-06-30 22:41:48 by Artisan
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in another thread, the subject of race came up & how some people are so overly sensitive to the matter. i grew up in a town where, in the late 70's, during the miniseries ROOTS, blacks actually rioted at the public high school. my older blonde haired sister, who had a white car no less, was jumped. about 15 of them jumped on her gremlin screaching something or other about 'whitey'. Thank God my brother was a jock & the only white kid on the basketball team. he was also a brawler, so when one of the niggers said 'hey, that's white boy's sister', they relented & exited the top of her white vehicle. Another time, i had a lemonade/candy stand outside the house. two blacks came up, gulped down their lemonade, then informed me they weren't paying. well i was a little kid, what could i do? Right as the slobs strutted down the street, my sister drove down the street towards home. ha ha, i knew this would be good. i jumped up waving my arms at her. she knew something was up, & sped up. i shouted what theyd done, &


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con'td... she did a 'dukes of hazard' 180. they ran like jackrabbits. funny as hell. she actually caught them, shouted at them & they apologized. being half hillbilly & half Italian, racial jokes & cultural humor was never 'verboten' . today it seems everyone is overly sensitive & paranoid of differences. My wife is Mexican but i don't have problem with people's varying views on race. God created all men,but to strike fear over discussion of the race issue is silly & oppressive. how were you brought up about race?

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#1. To: Artisan (#0)

i have no memories of feelings one way or the other about race as a young child. i grew up in an all white suburban neighborhood. there were no black students in any of the schools i attended until high school. i think there were fewer than five and all were considered oreos. do you remember that term?

i do remember my Sicilian father expressing some distrust and dislike for the blacks he encountered as a D C transit bus driver and later owner/operator of a Shell gas station near the D C line.

it wasn't until my young adulthood that i came into contact with low class white hating blacks with the 'tude.

christine  posted on  2010-06-30   23:34:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: christine, Artisan (#1)

At the grade school I went to there might have been maybe ten blacks and they all fit in. They were just part of the gang. We had a lot more Japanese than blacks - my Samurai Scout Master Mike Michigami could have done duty as a Marine D.I.. High School was not a lot different - out of 2500 students there might have been 50 to 100 blacks - and it was the same thing - they fit in and adopted the culture in which they lived. Race was never an issue per se until the heavy media coverage of radical blacks and the rejection by some of "White" culture. I never met any "niggers" until I joined the Navy. That was a different environment, but on a small ship like a Destroyer you tend to depend on each other so there was not that much friction - although there were the carefully concealed jokes told amongst each other like kids sneaking around "talking dirty". Our biggest asshole was a Samoan kid with the last name, and I kid you not, of Ape (prounced Aw-pay). He was about 5'8" tall and about 6 feet across the shoulders (slight exxageration).

The upshot is that I never learned to distrust or dislike blacks for the fact of being black. It was always on a person to person basis. They were part of the group and fit in - they just had a darker suntan.

The ghetto dwellers are a different breed and it is a different culture. Just like an old hillbilly they distrust anyone different and they have had it drummed into them through culture, community, and the media, that ALL white people hates dem an jes wans to make dem slaves again. It is a pathological self defeating culture that has social pressure that encourages ignorance i.e., not actin' white which in turn prevents advancement and so it is a vicious trap. Not that blacks have no reason to not resent some of the injustice they have faced as a people, but going around assuming that every white person is a "Cracka" is no different in any significant way than some toothless Klansman to whom all blacks are "niggers".

That being said I am NOT some weepy liberal who is going to go wander through the dark heart of the black part of town on foot - not during the day and definitely not after dark. I'm not suicidal in the least.

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#11. To: Original_Intent (#6)

for the fact of being black

i agree with you that judging a person based solely on race is wrong headed. on another note, people who care about civil rights can find a lot of common ground with minorities, instead of being alienated by them

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#21. To: Artisan (#11)

i agree with you that judging a person based solely on race is wrong headed. on another note, people who care about civil rights can find a lot of common ground with minorities, instead of being alienated by them

People are people regardless of color or eye shape. The genetic differences are simply superficialities. It is the person inside, their outlook, cultural reactions, and speech which are more the defining characteristics of "difference". That was something I discovered for myself years ago when I found myself getting annoyed over people speaking corrupted english and behaving in ways that were inconsiderate of others. I am much more likely to become seriously annoyed over poor manners and willful ignorance than the color of someones skin. If I become annoyed at a Black or Mexican it is for the same reasons I become annoyed at White Trash - poor manners and bad diction i.e., ignorance (not that I have not met people with bad diction who were exceptionally bright - but they usually have good manners). The language thing I finally identified for what it was - a knee-jerk cultural reaction to ignorance and an irrational reaction to the "auslander" (Germanic for outlander - meaning anyone not of one's own tribe or region - nowadays used deprecatingly to indicate strong parochialism or provincial attitudes).

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