Not the picture of the day

[Trevor]

Hate to say this but what a silly woman. 

[zombie no.one]

Trev you will hate me but Id be lying if I said I wasn't also slightly confused about this until a couple of years back... ouch

[Trevor]

Trev you will hate me but Id be lying if I said I wasn't also slightly confused about this until a couple of years back... ouch

No I don't hate you but that lady is so misinformed. She reminds me of the person that told me that there was no way on earth that I could call myself African because I was a white guy. 

[zombie no.one]

yeah now that is dumb.

[Trevor]

yeah now that is dumb.

That's not the worst, though: a filmmaker once called me a racist and then had to eat his words when I showed him a picture of my niece who just happens to be a person of color.

[Flangepart]

Good you could show that idiot up.

[Puma81]

I had a girl tell me once that my oppinions on bigots and oppression "don't matter" and that I had "no idea" what oppression feels like as a white male.
I told her about growing up as a the only white kid in my school in Hawaii, being called derogatory names, even by my teachers, and harassed and assaulted on a daily basis for years.
Rather than apologizing, she unfriended me on facebook, and hasn't talked to me in years. haha

[alandhopewell]

I had a girl tell me once that my oppinions on bigots and oppression "don't matter" and that I had "no idea" what oppression feels like as a white male.
I told her about growing up as a the only white kid in my school in Hawaii, being called derogatory names, even by my teachers, and harassed and assaulted on a daily basis for years.
Rather than apologizing, she unfriended me on facebook, and hasn't talked to me in years. haha

      As a person of partial-negroid ancestry, I've always been  amused / disgusted by some of the things many so-called "black" people believe, 4-X

     I'm black. My genetic makeup is so varied that calling me "black" is like calling fruit cocktail "peaches".

     That only white people can be racist; what are they smokin'?

     That all white people ARE racist, even if they themselves don't know it.  (??????)

     That because I don't run around, proclaiming my "blackness" at every opportunity, I hate black people, and I hate myself.

[Flangepart]

People...are a mix of good and bad, and for many, bad is easier.
Knowing you can be bad is the best way to fight against it, in yourself. But we can't control what others do, so we make the best of it.

When people think they can't be bad, because of (fill in the blank), they will get worse, because they won't be aware of what they are actually doing.
I hope all makes some kind of sense...I'm 57 and I'm STILL trying to work us humans out!

[Puma81]

Well said Flangepart.

you should check out Drafthouse's new documentary called The Act Of Killing. I just watched it and it's incredible. All about morality and compassion. Horrifying and Beautiful, hard to describe.