"Why I hate talking about racism"

[SanchoPanda]

I, Racist
What follows is the text of a “sermon” that I gave as a “congregational reflection” to an all White audience at the Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ on Sunday, June 28th. The sermon was begun with a reading of The Good Samaritan story, and this wonderful quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.

A couple weeks ago, I was debating what I was going to talk about in this sermon. I told Pastor Kelly Ryan I had great reservations talking about the one topic that I think about every single day.

Then, a terrorist massacred nine innocent people in a church that I went to, in a city that I still think of as home. At that point, I knew that despite any misgivings, I needed to talk about race.

You see, I don’t talk about race with White people. To illustrate why, I’ll tell a story:

It was probably about 15 years ago when a conversation took place between my aunt, who is White and lives in New York State, and my sister, who is Black and lives in North Carolina. This conversation can be distilled to a single sentence, said by my Black sister:

“The only difference between people in The North and people in The South is that down here, at least people are honest about being racist.”
great read. Click the link and read the whole thing.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

fukk racist people

 

[Kobe24]

fukk racist people

So fukk all whites then? I can't believe i just read that at least in the south they are honest about racism and in the north they front like they aren't. Ive been saying this for years and low low key I think the most racist people are the people that pretend like they aren't racist. A white person once told me in a hostile manner that he didn't like to talk about race "because the best way to end racism was to not talk about it", white lived grew up in a 3m house and went to all white schools. Needless to say that I almost socked that piece of shyt. Ive never felt so much hatred for a white person in my entire life.

Going to an all white school and living in an all white neighborhood you really start to realize that racism isn't going away for a long time. Discrimination never stopped, people are just maneuvering their discrimination in different directions. fukk what any white person says about them not being racist, you got to watch for subtle hints or you wont notice.

 

[At30wecashout]

I don't think anyone likes talking about racism, which is 90% of the problem. The people who need to speak about it most
are the most resistant to doing so. Yes, there will always be bigots, but there are societal reasons that the topic has to be broached.

The next economic dip is going to have blacks even worse off. Something has to give.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

So fukk all whites then? I can't believe i just read that at least in the south they are honest about racism and in the north they front like they aren't. Ive been saying this for years and low low key I think the most racist people are the people that pretend like they aren't racist. A white person once told me in a hostile manner that he didn't like to talk about race "because the best way to end racism was to not talk about it", white lived grew up in a 3m house and went to all white schools. Needless to say that I almost socked that piece of shyt. Ive never felt so much hatred for a white person in my entire life.

Going to an all white school and living in an all white neighborhood you really start to realize that racism isn't going away for a long time. Discrimination never stopped, people are just maneuvering their discrimination in different directions. fukk what any white person says about them not being racist, you got to watch for subtle hints or you wont notice.

there's good people of all races, i truly believe that. there's also crummy people of all races.




sadly a lot of those crummy people on the cac side of things reside in the south and waive that fukking piece of shyt war-loser flag with some kind of pride - oh and they love to brag about that flag on their "social medier" accounts

 

[Kobe24]

Why don't people like talking about racism? Because whites do not benefit from ethnic/racial minorities complaining about racism. White's want people to quit talking about racism so they can continue to do their low key racism bullshyt. People that dislike talking about racism in my opinion are people that like to bury their heads in the sand. Pretending that something doesn't exist doesn't make it not exists. The moment whites convince blacks to stop talking about racism, will be the day that the war on racism will be considered a defeat. I personally prefer the high key racism, that low key shyt is some dirt ass shyt. Id rather see the punches infront of me so I can roll with them then get hit behind my back.

 

[DrX]

white ppl dont like talking about it because if u look @ the historical facts....theyre guilty, and this society was built on sin

 

[Kobe24]

white ppl dont like talking about it because if u look @ the historical facts....theyre guilty, and this society was built on sin

It still is and In my opinion it will be for a long time to come, the whole way America works is basically skeeming other people out of resources. The problem is that people only give a fukk when they are the ones that are getting the short end of the stick. White trash are the most openly racist because they took it in the ass once discrimination ended, essentially they had blacks competing for their blue collar jobs. Now with the illegal immigrants you have blacks+Latin americans competing with whites for the blue collar jobs.

The racism is only going to get worse as the economic gap widens because the lower income whites are losing jobs/ getting paid less than before due to minorities entering the workforce. Meanwhile, the upperclass whites are essentially descendants of slave owners. You think since the 1950s the racist mindset just magically disappeared into dust? Rich whites want blacks to buy their bullshyt that because they say they aren't racist and "have black friends" that you can trust them and they are good people. Whites realized that the best way to move people is to make them think they aren't racist. Its all a front guys, just like when guys tell hoes what they wanna hear to sleep with them. Aint nothin to it.

 

[Kitsch]

 

[Knuckles Red]

Whites don't care about racism the same way blacks don't care about homophobia. People tend not to care about shyt that doesn't affect them.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

If you go back to 1965 and peep on stuff, this thing of "cacs don't like talking about racism, America doesn't know how to discuss race" has been around forever.