Argh!@#!@$ I'm sure you're going to unfriend me/etc. all over the place, but I just couldn't help get emotional in my response to you and the OP.
This isn't a matter of racism. Racism is something one paints with a broad brush. Racism is wrong. Being a colored person myself, trust me, I've lived on the receiving end of a fair share of racism.
What the OP on reddit described wasn't racism. It was reality. It was a story about a person acting like a jackass and being responded to in kind.
If the kid was white instead of black and responded so disrespectfully, they should have received the mini-speech about how they'd better start saving up for that double-wide trailer and develop an affinity for Coors Light and corndogs and Nascar, etc.
Stereotypes wouldn't exist if SO many people didn't actually behave in such ways. Why do we keep pretending like this truth doesn't exist and that "racism" is something different than plain old human pattern recognition?
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This isn't a matter of racism. Racism is something one paints with a broad brush. Racism is wrong. Being a colored person myself, trust me, I've lived on the receiving end of a fair share of racism.
What the OP on reddit described wasn't racism. It was reality. It was a story about a person acting like a jackass and being responded to in kind.
If the kid was white instead of black and responded so disrespectfully, they should have received the mini-speech about how they'd better start saving up for that double-wide trailer and develop an affinity for Coors Light and corndogs and Nascar, etc.
Stereotypes wouldn't exist if SO many people didn't actually behave in such ways. Why do we keep pretending like this truth doesn't exist and that "racism" is something different than plain old human pattern recognition?