Nightshade wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:32 am
Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:45 am
NS, you claim you're part Native American. Well, maybe you should change your appearance and apply a little makeup so that you
appear as a full-blooded Native American. Being a watered down "part" won't cut it. Do the same thing that the author of the well known older book, "Black Like Me" did back in the Civil Rights days and then go out and live on any reservation located anywhere in this country right alongside the people who have to live there. Maybe then, you'd get some perspective for what it's
really like to live in this country as an oppressed minority. Who knows? Perhaps you might gain a little sense of shame and humility.
Oh I have felt racism in person, TC. Within my very own family in fact.
The offenders? "Ironically" (which in this case, I'm learning isn't so ironic) they were the "white" liberal EDUCATORS (teachers- one of which eventually became an HS principal) in my family... That's right- the lefties in my own family often brought up how it must be strange to be able to tan, rubbing my skin with their fingers as if I was a space alien. My cheekbones were higher...etc etc. At the time, I was a little kid that didn't know WTF they were talking about so I shrugged it off.
These were "yellow dog" democrats on the European white side of my family. They railed against Reagan as I was growing up...etc- dyed in the wool democrats...and they were racist as hell. My aunt for instance, wouldn't let me into her house and made me sit in the car outside while waiting for my father.
The least racist? Other people that also happened to be WHITE in my family...and they were "conservative" Christians. They saw me AS A PERSON, not as some mongrel mix of identity politics.
You must've had a strange family, because the racists and anti-Semites in my family were the conservative ones. My parents were very liberal and never said anything racist that I can remember. My dad was a lawyer and worked all the time with Jewish and Catholic partners without a problem. He even had a black secretary in the office who stayed on for years because she was reliable and they liked her work so much. Everyone in his office was one big close family. My mother was a dedicated Democrat and even worked on Robert Kennedy's campaign in Oregon. She was devastated when he was assassinated. It was my more conservative aunts and grandparents on my mother's side who were the racist prigs. My grandfather was an outright racist and made no bones about it. He was also conservative in his attitudes and his voting, despite being blue collar and uneducated himself. He was an unpleasant man to be around. That happens when someone gets bitter and resentful in life.
My 2 nosy aunts on that side of the family at first thought my future husband was Jewish, all because of his last name. The way they asked him probing questions led him and I to believe that they were not in approval of what they thought was his religion. With more tact than I could muster, he told them that his last name's spelling was the German variant and not the Jewish variant. Suddenly, they became all nicey nice and approving. The whole interaction was insulting and really ticked me off. Biatches.
As for school, I never got a sense of racist or antisemitic motives from any of my teachers or administrators throughout my entire K through 12 education and that was while the Civil Rights movement was going on back then. It was in the news so much and it was such a dramatic upheaval in our society that it was part of the teaching curriculum, and not in a negative way either. That's why I referenced the book "Black Like Me", because it was required reading in HS. Maybe my educators were more enlightened than yours. However, a few mostly male conservative teachers never held back about their distaste for the Vietnam War protestors.
Also, being able to tan easily does not make a person automatically Native American. I tan very evenly and easily all over into a nice bronze. I'm also of British and German decent, at least as far as I know from what's been passed down through family history. My husband does not tan in the normal sense at all. The only thing that happens is that his freckles grow larger. It's pretty damn strange looking too. He gets huge freckles all over and sunburned bright red in between after being out in the sun too much. He's also has German, British and Swedish ancestors, so he's as white European as they come. So how well someone "tans" is not a good indicator of who their decedents were. Plus, having high cheekbones can also indicate that you have ancestors from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Native American ancestry. A better indicator is how easily you gain weight.
Nightshade wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:32 am
Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:45 am
EDIT:
It's looks like that Unabomber wannabe in Austin Texas may have racist motives behind his attacks as well. 2 of the people he killed were black and active in Austin's African American Cultural Heritage District. The other victim was a Hispanic. The entire neighborhood is a mostly minority-owned area as well. If they ever find the bastard and it turns out that person is a white male NS, what say you then?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/austin-tex ... -1.4575095
I dunno TC. You're white. Does that make you a suspect too?
I'm not even to grace you with an answer to that idiotic question. I'll let the police figure it out before the bastard kills someone else. I'm willing to bet the perp is a white guy, only because this is the new normal in the hateful day and age of Trump and for no other reason. Maybe you've caught the sickness since you seem so preoccupied by anything having to do with race these days.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/ ... 6-election
