How often do you tolerate racial/racists comments about other races?

Question

Does your in-action contribute to the acceptance of racism and prejudices?

Answer 1

I was brought up as a racist and have been fighting it all my life. When I feel something about another soul, another fellow traveller in this world, that is based on their race, I pull myself back from the edge and think of them as myself in another body.

The really difficult thing is being brave enough to correct my friends. I do it, but they don't like it, and I don't think I'm changing them much.

Any little bit of progress we can make is worth the effort and inconvenience.

I think racists just want to be able to put others below themselves without having to think about the individual person. Racism is a sign of feelings of inferiority.

"hey, look! I may be an ignorant fool, but I'm better than him, because he's BLACK!"

Answer 2

I think sometimes you have to let people know how you feel if they are over stepping their boundaries at least the boundaries you have set.  Sometimes it's just best to let them make fools of themselves.  I usually steer clear of the negativity, especially the negativity on here it's pointless to try and combat it.  We've all said racially charged comments so it's good to show restraint and give people some latitude especially when comments are made out of frustration or just plain ignorance and I mean that in the truest sense of the word.

Answer 3

It depends on the context. I don't get mad about jokes... where there is malicious intent though, I never tolerate it and will speak up...

Answer 4

Hi!! for 5 years i have entertained mature students studying in the U.K. 50 students 29 different Nationalities, and the subject has been debated many times. Most do not know what is meant by racist, nor are they able to  recognise racists.

The whole thing seems to be bandied about by loud mouthed, lowly educated people, and in the other extreme the so called intelligentsia. They all seem to have a grudge

to air when they are sounding off.

Answer 5

there are two problems in rascism...

1) people using it to overpower people by getting them mad, sad, depressed, and a whole range of emotions....

2) people letting THEMSELVES be overpowered. sticks and stones bro.

lil fun fact. i got beaten by 7 guys with a 2x4 becasue i was a white guy hanging around an all black college. i still have no problem with black people. why? because i saw it as some stupid asses who beat me down. not some black guys.

Answer 6

if it is true I don't consider it racist, the ones holding up the racist card are generally the ones who think in terms of racism, it is that way with many things.

If someone is totally showing racism and refuses to stop I leave the area, if I join in it will do nothing more than fuel that persons fire and give them even more reasons to try to explain how they are right.

Answer 7

I don't know how often I do, but I know you did it in a recent question you asked at this very site.  You asked what proof people have that Obama's church is racist because you are want to defend/tolerate the racist behavior of Obama's minister.  You are trying to pretend Rev Wright's cr@p wasn't really racist.  So that's what you do when you see/hear racism coming from people you support - you try to cover up that it is racism.  You defend the racist behavior by the people you support.  You tolerate racist cr@p as long as it's your kind that is saying the racist cr@p.  Rev Wright, and by extension Barrack Obama, is racist and anti-american.

Answer 8

I usually do not tolerate racial comments unless its about illegal mexicans.

Answer 9

I get tired of people impersonating Black people that are obviously white. Then making racist remarks.My action might contribute to the acceptance, but how long shall we turn our faces away.

Answer 10

No. and no.

Inaction does not contribute to acceptance.

fact check, racism by definition assumes genetic superiority.

I don't assume color when I see a person, that said there are stereotypes people of all colors, use to describe someone else based on ethnicity.

For example I recently was dial surfing in my car and heard a rap station playing a tune that discussed killing whites.. I find that a little more then inaction, it was encouraging action against a whole race of people based on their skin color.

While I do know there are idiots of all colors, the nutjobs in the Aryan crowd, I believe the prevalence of race hatred is at a higher level by blacks on whites.

That said, what can be done about it?

Personally, of the people i know, most are middle class americans who have done things on their own to improve their lives, without government assistance. Most are college educated, and are working hard to make ends meet and put their kids through school. They don't look at skin color.

One fact I heard recently bothers me a bit is a fact that 70% of black children are born out of wed lock, while I don't know if this is in fact true, the statistic itself is alarming and could contribute the generations angst that exists in the black culture. When children are born with only one parent present the likelihood they repeat that is extremely high.

So if you want to address "race" issues, perhaps the race itself needs to quit defining itself as separation and begin acculturating into society instead of remain stand offish.

Race pimps, such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Ferrakhan, don't help their race, they hurt them by perpetuating myths as do idiots in the Aryan crowd to a lessor extent.

Race is a problem when people refuse to give up emotional victimhood. It is a choice.

Answer 11

Every day, if you are white and living in South Africa you get racist remarkes thown at you daily...as well as racially motivated attacks and murders.

Answer 12

I see here that most answers are to do with the Black/White type racism. I am a white female, middle age, left UK to live in Israel back in the 70's, where there is a wide diversity of people. I married an Israeli Jewish guy.

I have seen hatred racism, and prejudicsm and  had it directed right at me for not ever converting to Judaism. I've had slurs made about my kids, all of whom are non-Jewish because I didn't convert. My son, had swastikas carved on his desk-top at school and his name chalked across the board with n**i related comments... How do you explain that to a 10 year old boy that has never been racist in his life? We also lived in Canada whilst they were in their Junior years. Canadians have a fantastic handle on racism, its nulled out in infants school... right from the word go.

We returned to live in Israel when my older kids were 8 and 10, and they suffered, believe me. They didn't know what had hit them when they went to regular schools where the Jewish element comes out at holidays etc. But I taught them to embrace differences, to approach it with an open mind and not to bear malice. I suffered along with them, and at the end of it they came out stronger and even less racist adults. It's how you handle the incidents at home. I didn't fuel it, I sorted it out. Whenever they see or hear racism directed at others, they are strong because they know how it feels and how distructive it can be.

I am divorced and am at present dating a British guy of Ghanian descent. I moved back to the UK in 2006 with my youngest daughter, who is now 10 years old, she attends a school with 18 different languages and cultures. She doesn't tolerate racism, won't allow it around her and doesn't get involved in joking or stereo typing. Its a foreign language to us, it's not part of our attitude.  Each different culture is another spectrum, another colour to enjoy and be enlightened with. And I am not religious, just learned and having been a victim time and time again, and even worse, seen my children victimized for somthing they weren't even aware of as a difference. You can't fix it, you can tolerate it and not make generalizations. You can heal and grow from it and just put it down to pure ignorance.

I always go back to a desert island scenario, where if there were a group of people just living in a diverse group, basically I don't think anyone would care and we'd go about our business of surviving together. Racism a socially adopted behaviour. It's something learned at an early age, but if handled correctly, even if you are a victim of it, you can still grow up and be totally non racist, just like me and my children.  Wow! sorry! that was a long one!!!!

Answer 13

i have all different races of friends. and often i find that the races themselves make more racial comments about their own race than the other does. my african american friends make more racial black comments than any of my white friends. when i hear a race commenting on their own race i usually dont think anything of it. maybe because as people we are often numbed to hearing racial slurs and comments.

when someone is blatantly calling another person a racial slur to be degrading etc. that is when i mostly notice. but i dont really give a c**p if people call me a cracker or h****y, it wasn't my choice to come out white, i just did. that doesn't make it right though.

Answer 14

I try not to tolerate any that I hear.  Only once last week I had to let it go because I am a Senior Citizen and two African American Boys,(about 17 yrs. old), were calling each other the "N" word.  I wanted to say something but I was afraid for my safety.  I'm White

Answer 15

What is generally called "racism" is really not. For there is only one race of people: the HUMAN race.

If someone wants to find an excuse to attack or criticize someone as a person or group, that should done without referencing physical appearance.

Sure, everyone has likes and dislikes about physical traits. I'm not attracted to blonds, in general. But my best friend is one, because she is the finest human being I know.

And a person with certain physical features who isn't physically attracted to someone with other physical features can still find other reasons in them as a oerson to have the greatest respect and appreciation for them as people.

In the final analysis, what does it matter what someone looks like, when it's the type of person they are that counts the most?

Answer 16

I never ever tolerate nasty and rude comments

I enjoy all cultures and colors

Answer 17

I DON'T tolerate it.

I AM a very fortunate man: I was removed from a very "sterile" environment and went to school with folks who were minorities just like myself.

In fact, here is the breakdown of the folks in my class:

65 total students:

51 black.

14 white.

We got along GREAT with each other!

Very frequently I just say a little "Thanks" to my parents and to God - who gave my parents the wisdom to put their 4 sons in such a diverse environment.

Because of that decision, there isn't a neighborhood in the world I'm not afraid to go into - at any hour of the day or night.

Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed answering it!

VTY,

Ron Berue

Yes, that is my real last name!

Answer 18

I tolerate NO racism.. stereo types yes because most are true.. but racism it's sickening.. I love everyone and will never not talk to a person because of his or her race... I just wish everyone would love people for people...

Answer 19

I do not condone racist comments from anyone. I think racism is disgusting. I sometimes don't argue with teenagers who make racial remarks, because I don't want their more prejudiced momma to come after me.

I am not prejudiced against any color. I am more likely to be prejudiced against life-style. I have a real problem with "rednecks, " but I have also known very kind-hearted and hard-working rednecks. They are just so ignorant sometimes. I hardly ever listen to country music because it encourages the position of women I don't condone. It relates to cows, the man upstairs, flags, gossiping, and drinking, which has nothing to do with my life.

I also have a real problem with people who make being a pimp, ho, and drug head somehow glamorous and "in." It is NOT! No matter whether you can dance to it or not. Most hip-hop-rap stuff is unnerving and violent. Some is frighteningly racial. Some isn't.

I am guilty of being upset with illegals, but it is not about the color, since I know and love several hispanic people, even illegals. I just think it is immoral to sneak into a country and do what you want and not play by the rules everyone else lives by.

Yes, inaction does contribute. I won't let anyone tell me racial jokes. Or say yucky words. I make fun of them or leave, if they do.

I think poverty and crime and racism go hand in hand. It is a sin against humanity to allow anyone to go hungry.

Answer 20

People of all ethnic back grounds have their bigots hopefully some day they will See past a persons skin or race or religion and accept a person for who they are .  We in the United States are Americans our heritage is very diversified  first we need to get rid of the tittles of white Americans , Italian , Irish , African, or Hispanic, or Asian Americans ,  We are Americans Period. Learn to respect Your self and others.