11-06-2008, 10:46 PM
Mad Dog Wrote:mainerliser Wrote:I think the whole point of NOT being racist is NOT differentiating between races! Why do you have to described someone in that way? I've never understood the need to catagorize anyone as black, african american, asian, etc. Why not describe them as who they are. That is not racist.
Lets say for example You go into a company and you are looking for a specific person and you knew they were named Jane bo Smith. If that person was black, yet the person you asked, didn't or wouldn't tell you that person was black, how would you find them?
-the one wearing the pink blouse
-the one with her hair up
-the one with glasses
-the one in the office that says "jane bo smith" on the outside
it's possible.
i'm hypersensitive because i come from an insensitive family that doesn't know they are. in fact, about 5 sentences after this one, my nephew just called me with a joke he thought was hilarious: since obama won the election, "we have to go to the cotton fields for orientation." (i had to backtrack and add that in. its exactly my point.) it makes me uncomfortable whenever anybody talks about it. i can find jokes clever, but hardly ever funny. a white guy makes a fried chicken joke and it's awful. dave chappelle does it, and he's a genius. it's not funny from either one, and i don't really care anyway. so i avoid it.
but i don't take offense to the same things. i'm pretty white. rick astley white. i just don't feel entitled to focus on color when discussing anybody else. nor do i find it necessary.