What do you think about this matter. Maybe it is right to you maybe it is wrong. What are your believes and experiences?

"Maybe it is right to you maybe it is wrong."

I don't think you can ever say maybe it's right.... Racism is never right. A person shouldn't be judged based on the color of their skin.

geeogree : Yes I know it's wrong. I never judge people by there color. Everyone looks the same in my eyes. I just put that in there so I wouldn't get chewed out. I guess I failed lol

well, I wasn't chewing you out over it... I simply don't think it's ever right to do.

I can't say I'm not racist.... but that doesn't make it right just because I do it.

geeogree : Oh well then I don't think its right either. To make that clear. Sorry bout that.

Hmmm....
Lets see i dont like racism
i dont like people that are racist
RACISM SHOULD BE BANNED FOR LIFE!!
because people dont like to be "talked about in that way"
uuummm yeah i think that's all i have to say

Sorry if i am/was over reactive cuz i just hate racism

Super_kyle : Oh no your not.

You cannot have the option of judgment without being a hypocrite. This entire society is based on judgment there is no way around it period. If you're not judging on color then your judging on something else which ultimately makes it the same thing.

For the amount of terms that can be linked to judgment, no one is innocent... not until your dead and have no brain anymore to judge.

Anyone here have a favorite color? If so your racist Lets just call it biased or an opinion, its only correct to the person using it.

There are rich people & poor people
There are famous people & unpopular people
There are races & religions
the list could go on...

You honestly think anyone here is innocent? Why is it ok for corporations to judge people based on degrees or money? Why is it ok for religions to judge people who have other religions or no religions? They are no different then the racists you hear about and see all over the world. Since society has many different levels of judgment, everyone is a hypocrite and a target to all forms of judgment.

Racism is one of the worst things that can contaminate people's heads.

JigSaw : You just took the words out my mouth. Lol.

Pretty much he said. I don't know how else to explain it without it sounding like I'm coping him. If you say you're not racist. You are pretty much judging something else. Like me. I don't judge a person by what they look like. I instead if judging their personality. I'm not racist. I'm cool with everyone, but that doesn't mean I'm judging something else. Hmmm. Well pretty much JigSaw got it down. No one is innocent. We all have our little "dark side".

JigSaw :

Natas :

Ya Jigsaw got everything down there. I don't judge people for their color or religon or if they don't have a religon , I don't judge appearinces either but, I will tell you I won't date a guy if He dosen't have a good heart and it's kinda hard to be with somebody if there personality is bad. I guess I'm at fault there. But It's normal cause if you dated somebody and they had a bad heart or personality how would the relationship work. I'm not saying I don't judge things cause actually I do.. its part of humanity.. everyone does. I think that everyone is made the way god made them. Nobody should be judged for anything. The only person who should ever be Judgeing "in my eyes" is Jesus Christ/God himself.

Sorry for the sandwich posting, but I want to say this.

You think God made who we are? I'm not going to argue with that statement. We all have our beliefs and personality, but I wouldn't say I am who I am because God made me that way. It's the generations of growing up living in that circumstances is why people are racist and bias like that. It's the parents who raised them that way to act in such a way. My father for instance. He is racists against the African Americans. Why? Because when he was growing up. A group of black kids would always come by throwing rocks at his mom and she would always yell at them with certain names I will not say and my father grew up around that and started to act the same way. Well every since my mom left him and my grandfather died. He's attitude changed for the best. He is not as bad as he used to. I don't think It's God who made him change. He just realized what he lost from his judgement.

Natas : Yes I do. And if it wasn't for god then he wouldn't of changed period. It does seem like in reality that realizeing what kind of judgement you are making or different circumstances in your life just happen but .. you wouldn't of realized that if God wouldn't of helped you. And ,

"I am who I am because God made me that way" I did not say that one bit.. actually that is the worst term or choice of words somebody can use. If your a murder for instance god didn't make you like that it was your choice to murder somebody. Or if you decided to do anything in your life yes .. its a choice that only you make not god. I don't believe that god makes choices for us. I believe that he can guild us threw the choices we make but in the end its your choice.

What I'm saying in short verzion .. Is god made us who we are today wheather we are black white brown orange or pink he made us on the inside and the out side and he knows everything we will do in the future.

But no We do make our own choices in our lifes.

Simple as that.

I believe racism is bad, of course. But you can't not judge other people based on certain traits, the color of their being a big factor.

Let's call it "Culturalism" and not racism. For example, it's 12:30 am, late, you're alone, you're walking home from a friend's house and you hear someone walking behind you. You glance behind you and you see a person. Ideally, you'd want to discuss the person's hopes, dreams, aspirations, and the reason they're out late like you. You'd want to konw what they're carrying and what their immediately plans are.

You can't ask people that at 12:30 in the morning in public in the middle of a street.

Are they black, male, 6'2 and 220 lbs and late teens/early 20s? Are they white, female, with a dog, and late 50s?

Everyone makes judgements. We all make judgements based on what we can see and we associate race with class and class with culture. Black males are intimidating because their culture seems to be one of violence, drugs, guns, and negative things. White women ageed 50 with pets seem to take yoga classes and go to high school swim meets.

I blame culture for our negative view points and I try to reign in my feelings. I'm white and I live in Hawaii which makes me a 'haole' and I experience racism every day. I understand why it sucks to be on the receiving end. I don't think it should ever be put upon anyone...

Except the Micronesians!

racism just makes me think that person is stupid,so i dismiss them.an example would be i have probably been called inferior by about a hundred different english people,but im bigger than them,im smarter than them,im nicer than them,so how on earth they reach that conclusion i dont know.
I confess though,i think racist jokes are funny,iv heard some about my own scotland that i find hilarious. So long as the person saying them isnt serious it dosent bother me.

I see racism as a last resort to hurt someone. When trying your hardest to get to someone and it doeskin work, racism is usually what hits the nail o the head. I cant say that I have never said anything racist, but when I have I have never meant it as a way to judge them by their race, but as a way to get to them. When it has come to the issue if race, I have always looked at it like I once saw in a christian picture bible. The same people left from the same area long ago, and adapted to their environments. Some people grew dark skinned, other light, but regardless, were still human and that should be enough to make us equal.

I see racism as ignorance and misunderstanding. People fear things they don't understand, and some people, instead of learning about the new person decide to hate it.

Racism is also people looking for power and one way to get it is by putting someone else down and who is the easiest target? The person who is different from the rest of the group.

Yes, racism is bad. I think any individual who was not brainwashed would agree to that. However, denying that you are completely free of racism is just as bad as being racist. We are all racist - to an extent. This nation (referring to the United States) was founded by men who believed in freedom and all that good stuff, but those same people had slaves. It's been in this country from the start.

However, there are different kinds of racism. There's overt, blunt racism which is usually what we think of (i.e. calling an individual the "n" word). However, what is still prevalent is institutional racism. For the longest time, people of colour were treated as less than human. As a result, even though the laws have changed, the past has not. For example, let's say that you were an African American in the days of the Civil Rights Movement. Let's say it's the late 60s when Martin Luther King Jr. helped convince white America. Bam. Equal rights for everyone. However, the damage is still done. The years of slavery, the years of settling for crappy jobs, living in ghettos, it still affects many people.

It's not so easy to escape poverty. Generations of adversity create hopelessness. It's a really hard life.

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Also, I'd like to point out something that I read in a Cracked article. Apparently, babies dislike babies of other colours so even from the time that we're born, we're judging others. The author said that this was because of the baby's tribal instinct or something. Look into it further if you wish, I don't remember all of the details and have no idea how accurate they are.

What I do know is that we all are racist. Most of us don't think like "this is a black person, I'll make sure to not let my guard down" or something like that. It's more of a subconscious response. Saying that we don't judge people based on appearance is ludicrous. That's the first thing we see and often the only thing that we ever know about most people. After a while, your brain tries to filter and organize the person. There's not much else to go by other than race, clothing, sex, etc.

The first step tp solving a problem is understanding that it's a problem. Don't try to cover it up.

well my mum comes from peru and ive been there quite a few times and over there everythings alot more open and not so politically correct. there was this black guy and even the teachers used to call him negrito which basically means blacky but in an endearing way he actually liked it, there was also this asian and they sometimes used to say 'open your eyes for the photo' but you could see him genuinley laughing along because his eyes were pretty big anyway i think rasicm is what you make of it if you make cynical jokes and use dry humour about it your gonna get negative responses if you use it in an endearing way that dosent offend your gonna get positive reponses its all about the way you say it. rasicm is everywhere even for white people its just how you choose to take it in. rasicms been around in caveman days when a certain tribe would be outcasted for a while but this dosent happen anymore rasicsm in that sense has improved A LOT over the past few decades.