Racism Is Racist

[smartdude1212]

I think it's because being white is the most widely accepted... how do I put this... I'll just say 'color'. Anyway, it's the most widely accepted color because white people were the ones to have black people as their slaves. Then Martin Luther King Jr. came along as a black rights activist and it was as if every white man had just received a good kick in the ass.

They called it racist back then because white people were offensive towards black people, and it has pretty much carried on into our everyday culture of today. That is, minus the slavery and strict rules and whatnot.

Meanwhile the black people back then didn't call white people anything like that to their face (most obviously in fear of what might happen), and this fear probably prevented them from doing a lot of things (except Rosa Parks, chain reaction, MLK Jr., etc.). There is a MLK Jr. day because a large number of white people probably realized, 'holy ****, what the hell am I doing?' (others could care less), and it was the start of a huge change in the way society thought of black people.

Of course that whole attitude towards each other is still brimming at the surface, and it's like a societal paradigm that racial slurs towards blacks are highly offensive while racial slurs towards whites seem to be merely words.

Oh, as well, I think it's because whites have held this status for a long time while blacks have worked their way towards being equal. They got through the obstacle of slavery, and so it seems like much more of an achievement for a black person than it is a white person.

My opinion, watch me get flamed for something, etc.