Lemmy on Racism

[RCMerchant]

http://youtu.be/skGEBgePHtk

[Allhallowsday]

LEMMY : THE MAN! 

[LilCerberus]

Uh, What'd he say?

[RCMerchant]

 I understood him perfect!  

http://youtu.be/MlzTET_8SQg

He said every race should f**k each other and just make it like coffee. Being as you don't have a clue, ya know- I'm giving you one.

[Allhallowsday]

...He said every race should f**k each other and just make it like coffee. Being as you don't have a clue, ya know- I'm giving you one.

[Alex]

There is a fantastic quote from him I've been trying to find about how he couldn't understand why people would judge each other on the colour of their skins, just don't be an a***ole.

[LilCerberus]

Okay, watched with the closed captioning on, & it sounds like Bad Brains wasn't around yet.......

[RCMerchant]

Okay, watched with the closed captioning on, & it sounds like Bad Brains wasn't around yet.......

Bad Brains formed in 1977.

[zombie no.one]

there's a black guy I work with (orginally from Guyana) who I have become really close friends with over the last couple of years. close as in over lockdown we've been phoning each other for a quick chat and before you know it we've been talking for 90 mins...that kind of close. he's one of the friendliest and most genuine people I've ever met

I feel like this whole BLM situation (which I have nothing against in principle) has created something of elephant in the room situation between us, where there previously wasn't one. nothing that will disrupt our friendship but I definitely feel slightly uncomfortable about how this has pervaded everyday life. I'm vehemently anti-racism in all its forms, but suddenly I feel like I'm part of a 'problem', almost by default?

[Allhallowsday]

there's a black guy I work with (orginally from Guyana) who I have become really close friends with over the last couple of years. close as in over lockdown we've been phoning each other for a quick chat and before you know it we've been talking for 90 mins...that kind of close. he's one of the friendliest and most genuine people I've ever met
I feel like this whole BLM situation (which I have nothing against in principle) has created something of elephant in the room situation between us, where there previously wasn't one. nothing that will disrupt our friendship but I definitely feel slightly uncomfortable about how this has pervaded everyday life. I'm vehemently anti-racism in all its forms, but suddenly I feel like I'm part of a 'problem', almost by default?

You cannot help but express your genuine humanity.  Black Lives Matter has become the "elephant in the room" for people who had never had a racist inclination in their lives.  I think it is understandable that a person would feel guilty... just for being white.  It is painfully pointed out to us that we have privileges that are not apparent to us.  Meanwhile non-whites are often still marginalized.   The human race and American culture is taking a step up; and reactions illustrate we have a long way to go.  Unfortunately human nature has always been to ostracize, criticize, and marginalize people unlike ourselves. 

[zombie no.one]

yeah sadly I think that's true...

and progress still needs to be made, but what's happening now seems more like a step backwards

I'll never know what it's like to be a black man in a 'white man's world', but that doesn't automatically mean I'm the enemy. -and that's how I feel blacks and whites are being stacked up against each other here...

[Allhallowsday]

yeah sadly I think that's true...

and progress still needs to be made, but what's happening now seems more like a step backwards

I'll never know what it's like to be a black man in a 'white man's world', but that doesn't automatically mean I'm the enemy. -and that's how I feel blacks and whites are being stacked up against each other here...

I agree with you... but I think a baby's first steps are difficult.  The ugliness and violence may seem regressive, but it's just reactionary.  Real change is coming.    
Fnck racism. 
Fnck sexism. 
Fnck fascism.