Comments on: Jamie Foxx on racial sensitivity: ‘Every single thing in my life is built around race’

By: ZenB!tch

ZenB!tch — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:37:58 +0000

So if Jamie Foxx is coming over what do you feed him? Fried chicken and pate? Just so you have stereotypical black food and stereotypical white food or do you feed him the great equalizer: Mac and Cheese. Everyone likes that, right?

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By: ZenB!tch

ZenB!tch — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:35:15 +0000

There was a script that made the rounds last year. I’m not sure if its the final copy but it’s on my Kindle. Alas, PDFs are hard to read on my Kindle so I didn’t get very far. I’ll probably go see it in January. I HATE Westerns but I also hate Kung Fu movies and I loved Kill Bill.

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By: Leen

Leen — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:43:02 +0000

I’m extremely surprised that no one brought up the fact that less than 50 years ago, black people were separated from white people. Even more surprising that up until 1994, America still supported South Africa apartheid. Yes slavery is over, we’ll and truly over, and that might be a signal to many people that racism is done. Yet we cannot ignore the fact many black people today were either part of the racist separation laws of 1950s or have parents and grandparents who were. It is still part of their conscience and you bet someone who was told they could not eat in the same cafe as white people isn’t going to easily forget that. Lets not forget back in 1950 the first black kid to attend a white school had to be guarded by federal officers and the national guard. Again I must point out that this was less than 60 years ago. I wish it was but racism is not dead.

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By: lambchops

lambchops — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:54:04 +0000

When a respected main stream newspaper analyzes the president’s ‘swagga’, um, we’ve got a long way to go.

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By: historyisimportant

historyisimportant — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:21:45 +0000

@Really – we need to move on…is that your solution well it’s a lazy one. The only way the human race can move on is to learn from it’s mistakes. Those who don’t learn from history are fated to repeat it.

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By: sasa

sasa — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:15:39 +0000

I have read through the whole thread- some very interesting and useful discussion. That’s the kind of thing that makes issues eventually better, airing stuff out in the open.

I think both sides of the argument are right. Yes, it’s neglectful to not acknowledge racism. And yes, dwelling on negativity doesn’t produce progress. However, two rights don’t make a right in this case.

The way I see progress being made isn’t by distancing ourselves from atrocious things and assuming moral high ground. Or by perpetuating the problem in a circle of racism.

It’s by accepting the fact that we are the very same people who tortured, killed and belittled other people throughout the history of mankind. We are evolving and what was acceptable then isn’t acceptable now, but dramatic changes don’t happen over a century or two.

We all still carry the potential for evil. Which is a word with arbitrary meaning and I’m using it here to describe acts that hurt others, for whatever reason. Usually it’s not being evil for the sake of being evil but being misled or having pack mentality tendencies or whatever. Doesn’t make much difference for the person on the receiving end.

Once we come to terms with humans being generally flawed (which seems quite natural considering the feats we put ourselves through for the sake of progress, real or imaginary) the issue of skin color looses relevancy.

There is this prevalent (miss)concept that if you take personal responsibility for the sins of humankind you are bound to be swollen by the negative thus failing in being a progressive, tolerant and open minded human being. I think that only after you feel the burden as your own can you truly start working towards making it better.

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By: Gemma

Gemma — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:14:27 +0000

I hadn’t necessarily thought of it that way (clearly ), but that is a very good point. Someone else said something similar to this below as well. Thank you!

I’m not sure why it made a few of you so angry. I’m not denying racism doesn’t still happen and I don’t believe I ever did. Racism is prevalent all over the world and not just in America (as I’m sure most if not all of you know). I do not live in a bubble; I live in Florida and parts of this state are so incredibly diverse that when I think of the us it isn’t separated by subgroups of America and I guess that is were I was getting at. I have lived in Tennessee before so I also know what it is like to live in an area with little diversity as well.

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By: V4Real

V4Real — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:47:54 +0000

@ Really; sorry my fault for not being clear; I meant my comments to canteloupe, where I first mention if your not part of the solution, your part of the problem. That doesn’t necessarily implies you’re a racist; it means your a part of the problem of denying it doesn’t still exist. I said you’re part of the problem because you’re trying to lighten the blow of slavery by making that statement of how can there have been 400 years of slavery in America when America is only 236 years old. It was almost as if you were trying to be funny. I’m sure you know that even though America is only 236 years, it’s the same land that Columbus sailed to. So making a statement like that was unnessary and being part of the problem for making light of how long slavery had been in existence. I hope you get it now.

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By: lady X

lady X — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:37:33 +0000

I am sooooo not gay …. but I am soooo in love with you on this thread….. like you are PREACHING…. The doors of the church are now open on this one baby …. love it …. keep it up …
Oh i remember being pulled over here in L.A because I was 24 at the time driving a mercedes… he asked me what I did for a living 99 times and wanted to know how on earth I could afford a car like this at my age… probably because my car cost more than he see’s in a year … i think if i had said I was a whore or a stripper or had married well he would have been better off LOL

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By: lady X

lady X — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:56:12 +0000

@Mytbean I have an idea…. This is what my biology and chemistry teacher always had us do … if you have an opinion and many disagree conduct an experiment… Your Hypothesis could be the first statement you made… do some research… it might make a good book also (remember me on the best sellers list) … I charge you to use middle class and above black people so the experiment is as non biases as possible… I think it could be much for you to learn there… and I am not saying that to insult you … I have learned soo much from this thread and i been black all my life LOL and i study African American History … But i appears to me that you do not have many black close friends…cause if you did or were married to a black person you might see it more clearly everyday … If my idea of an experiment seems crazy than there is a book to read called ” black like me ” – by John Howard Griffin .. it chronicles a scientist who wanted to understand the “Black Experience” so he took a medicine that caused his skin to turn black and then he goes to the deep south and just lives as a black man.. it is a TRUE STORY and very powerful …. sometimes the only way we can know something is to go through it … Just some advice …

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