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ORIGINAL: Griswold

All I want to know is...

Why is it racist to have an all white college....but to have an all black college is perfectly ok?

(Someone explain that fucking shit to me puhleaaase!!!!!)

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl

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ORIGINAL: ladyofthecastle

Though for the most part; as I work in security every time I ask a black person for identification or what they are doing they begin screaming Racism. When is it enough!

now my question to you is, do you single out a black person asking for their identification and/or what are they doing OR do you also ask a white, hispanic, etc person the same thing?  merely curious.

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ORIGINAL: Wildfleurs

Anyone thats familiar with college admissions also knows that legacies also get additional points in admissions.  People who's parents are able to donate large sums of money also get additional points as well.  Why in the world there aren't long standing complaints and tirades about legacies and high monetary donating to get their children those extra points parents I don't know.  Hell in the highly competitive schools being a minority in a geographical area they don't get a swarm of applications from also helps get a couple of extra points (and by minority that includes a white person living in the middle of Calcutta with a compelling story).

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Stuff like this happens all the time...anytime you discipline one or gripe at one, it's cause you're a racist!"

I'm curious. What's "one" exactly? No matter.

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ORIGINAL: CodenameV

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ORIGINAL: domiguy

Oh the poor white people...boo fucking hoo...If you are white and in this country and you haven't got yourself a piece of the pie well just look in the mirror....Racism is alive  and well....We have learned to disguise it, we replace the word, nigger,coon  or colored, with African American but all you have to do is listen and the people who don't get it will reveal themselves in time...

I am now of the belief that something has to be done and pronto about our public edcuation system...We have changed segregation into paying for our education through property taxes....Lets look at Chicago Public School system ...( this is a little dated and I'm pulling these numbers from memory but I believe they are accurate today)
In the suburbs around Chicago,predominately white, it is not uncommon for an allotment of close to TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS is spent per child who is attending high school if you look in urban areas this number falls down to less than $5,000 per student....Limited facilities, no computers for training as well as some fairly poor and burned out teachers.....What is remotely fair or equal in providing this type of an education.

Education is not a right in this country...There has been talk about making an amendment that would require all to have access to the "same" education....If we are going to take the time to create an amendment that would ban gay marriage maybe it is time to consider one that actually has merit.

It is true that many different peoples have come to the U.S. and found success, Gris actually addressed this in his rant...However if you look at the fate of the peoples that have  beared the brunt of the historical racism of this country the results are disparagingly tragic...Both the Blacks as well as the Native Americans have not enjoyed the success of other "immigrants" who have reached our shores.

Anyone who bitches about the reverse racism suck it up! For Christ sake...You were born the "right" color, if you still don't get it...Then complain.  Waaaah! The Black people have their own award show! Waaaah! The black people have their own beauty pageant....Waaaaaah!.....The Black people have Historic black colleges.....Waaaaah!

Drexel Spivey: He must have thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?
Marty: No man, It ain't white boy day.

It's always been "white boy" day.

I just love when someone speaks up and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt how some non-whites can be more racist than whites. Especially against their own. The use of the phrase "right color" shows that even some have no respect for their own race, let alone any others. There is no "right color" there is poverty across the board, regardless of color. However, only 'some' choose to play the race card in regards to why they are poor. Look at the after effects of Hurrican Katrina......there are people who got off their butts, found a job and got back on their feet TWO WEEKS after the tragedy. And there are others who are still on government funds almost TWO YEARS later.

I am further "amused" how the only ones who seem to play a race card are those considered to be "of race," such as "I only get pulled over because I am 'x' race," etc, etc. And don't even get me started on things like black awards shows or beauty pageants. Evidently not 'every' race truly wants equality. As it's been said, let someone have an all white awards show and watch the ensuing fury. Yet BET or Vibe can have an all black show (at which it seems someone almost always gets stabbed, beaten, shot, etc) yet that's not racist. I have never seen a White Entertainment Network either for that matter. Why is it that non-whites are the ones who cry about equality and then they work so hard to segregate themselves more than the white ever could?

Every race has their productive members and every race has their 'trash.' There is no "right color." It's time people get off their butts and do something to improve their own situation and realize that no one is going to do it for them. I LOVE reading in the news when Bill Cosby gives a speech somewhere. I just love how a self-made man like that can look at those who might blame others for their problems and tell them to get off their lazy butts and fix things for themselves.

Let's face it people, racism will never end because those considered to be "of race" will never let it die. Every time something bad happens or they don't get what they feel they deserved (but didn't work for) is suddenly all about race. No matter how much whites 'apologize' for slavery (which I personally will never do, as my ancestors never owned any and I can prove it) the issue will never be laid to rest. I am completely convinced that in the year 3000, if we even make it that far, slavery and it's 'effects' will still be used as an excuse as to why some are 'owed' something by the government.

Sad but true.

• 1939: Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (winner)
  
• 1948: Ethel Waters, Pinky
  
• 1959: Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
  
• 1967: Beah Richards, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  
• 1983: Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek
  
• 1985: Margaret Avery, The Color Purple
  
• 1985: Oprah Winfrey, The Color Purple
  
• 1990: Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost (winner)
  
• 1996: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets and Lies
  
• 2002: Queen Latifah, Chicago
  
• 2004: Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
  
• 2006: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (winner)
  
• Best Supporting Actor
  
  • 1969: Rupert Crosse, The Reivers
    
  • 1981: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Ragtime
    
  • 1982: Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman (winner)
    
  • 1984: Adolph Caesar, A Soldier's Story
    
  • 1987: Morgan Freeman, Street Smart
    
  • 1987: Denzel Washington, Cry Freedom
    
  • 1989: Denzel Washington, Glory (winner)
    
  • 1992: Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
    
  • 1994: Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
    
  • 1996: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire (winner)
    
  • 1999: Michael Clarke Duncan, The Green Mile
    
  • 2003: Djimon Hounsou, In America
    
  • 2004: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby (winner)
    
  • 2004: Jamie Foxx, Collateral
    
  • 2006: Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
    
  • 2006: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
  
  
  [edit] Best Actress
  
  • 1954: Dorothy Dandridge, Carmen Jones
    
  • 1972: Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues
    
  • 1972: Cicely Tyson, Sounder
    
  • 1974: Diahann Carroll, Claudine
    
  • 1985: Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
    
  • 1993: Angela Bassett, What's Love Got to Do with It
    
  • 2001: Halle Berry, Monster's Ball (winner)
  
  
  [edit] Best Actor
  
  • 1958: Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones
    
  • 1963: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field (winner)
    
  • 1970: James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope
    
  • 1972: Paul Winfield, Sounder
    
  • 1986: Dexter Gordon, 'Round Midnight
    
  • 1989: Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy
    
  • 1992: Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
    
  • 1993: Laurence Fishburne, What's Love Got to Do with It
    
  • 1994: Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption
    
  • 1999: Denzel Washington, Hurricane
    
  • 2001: Denzel Washington, Training Day (winner)
    
  • 2001: Will Smith, Ali
    
  • 2004: Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
    
  • 2004: Jamie Foxx, Ray (winner)
    
  • 2005: Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
    
  • 2006: Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
    
  • 2006: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland (winner)

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CodenameV

So let me are if I get this right . . . When a white actor loses to a black one, he's lost to a better actor, but when a black actor loses to a white one, it's racism at its finest? Is that your official, albeit misguided, opinion?

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ORIGINAL: domiguy

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CodenameV

So let me are if I get this right . . . When a white actor loses to a black one, he's lost to a better actor, but when a black actor loses to a white one, it's racism at its finest? Is that your official, albeit misguided, opinion?

So educated wonderboy ........What would a black actor think when only TWO won in 46 years....You do the math you hard struggling white boy!!!  No....Why don't you continue your rant about how easy all of the minorities have it.....And how tough it is for you a whiteboy in texas to make ends meet.

If you, whiteboy, are having troubles you have only yourself to blame.....Get a Life!!!

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ORIGINAL: soulKnife

some black people blame slavery/racism/the government etc. for their situations
some poor white southerners blame "the north" for their situations
some women blame patriarchal societies for their situations
some x blame y for their situations
some people regardless of what group will whine and complain.

Are some people over-emphasizing racism and whatnot when trying to rationalize not having a job/home/etc? yes. Does that mean these things aren't factors? No.

Alot of things people associate with race, on both sides of the fence are really socio-economic class issues. "But there are more poor blacks/hispanics/etc." Yes white people had a head start. Oh well, you can sit and complain about it or we can run and catch up.

You white people really shouldn't be complaining about these "unfair advantages" that people are getting due to race because it is really a hinderance on a whole promoting apathy and the victim mentality that keeps people focused on waiting to get what they are owed instead of going out and earning their own way.