I have contempt for people calling themselves black, white, yellow, red, whatever. I am disgusted by people who take pride, are ashamed, or find relevance in irrelevant definitions and associations of race, and define people by made up criteria in which a person is judged for things they did not do things that someone else may or may not have done that may or may not resemble that person but because something about them reminds a stupid person of someone else that makes them culpable and responsible 4 some action or a history that has nothing to do with them the same applies 4 judgements of a non-racial nature like uneducated perceptions of mental illness or criminal inclination or pecking order or caste system based on BS social convention and tradition.
I could go on for hours talking about the social justices of both racial based Prejudice and non racial bias Prejudice which is all the same anyway does Reese is bulshit that is definitive by ignorant peoples criteria of what they think makes one person different from another.
I know I'm not a bigot and I'm not a judgmental person, and not hateful person, and I'm not a racially intolerant person, because I don't believe in race the way it's described in. the Media. When I talk about different races, I talk about the distinctive features that separate a Cro-Magnon man, from a Neanderthal man, or Meistocene and Pleistocene man. Or homo sapiens compared to Homo erectus, with physiological distinctions that are actually relevant, obvious. and can be documented with definitive characteristic descriptions and what makes one what it is, and what makes the other what it is. If one has a tail and the other one doesn't, that's an obvious difference that's not made up, like black and white, and all that b******* that's not a legitimate observable distinction.
Black history is offensive. Affirmative action is offensive. Anyone who supports these policies is seeing something that is not there. Dark skinned Americans that earned scholarships with hard work and good study habits, passed over by dark skinned Americans who got lousy grades that didn't earn squat, because their family income, or appearance, or place of birth, fit the criteria of a particular agenda-- you call that fair? The students that put in the effort and dedication and didn't get what they earned don't think so. Affirmative action is offensive national educational policy.
Black history month, is offensive educational policy. How dare you credit someone for achievements that are not theirs. How dare you define someone based on racial profiling. The Black Community and the Aryan Nation are enemies of the people of America. I am not an Aryan, I am an American of German descent. Who is this information important too, my doctor. That's it. Racial profiling in the field of medicine is appropriate, because it's relevant to a person's physical health but nowhere else. Perhaps it would be more appropriate if they called it genetic profiling instead of racial profiling, since it's really about a person's genetics that that is important. People are not radically different physically from one race to another, but minor distinctions in genealogy and medicine can make the difference between a person's sensitivity to sunlight or sugar or glucose levels or temperature or climate or hereditary details in relation cancer or stroke or Alzheimer's.
I don't believe a person should be ashamed of their genetics or the racial definitions that people attach to those things, but I don't see what there is to be proud of, since your genetics are not you. If you believe that you were genetics are all that, then that's not your accomplishment, that's your ancestors accomplishment.
I know I'm going too get hammered for posting an opinion that is not popular or consistent with social norms.
I agree 100% with what he says. Look where talking about it amd focusing on it has gotten us. Nowhere. It has just made us more racist and divisive with toxic rhetoric being fed to us constantly.
I don't give a fuck about your skin color at the end of the day. Are you a decent human being that whom despite having differences can treat me with simple respect and as an individual without extreme disdain or vile comments because of that? If so, cool, I have no issue with you.
I don't see color, I see a human being. I see man and woman. I don't have any problems with you unless you make it a point to make something a problem that can escalate to violence or divisiveness because of simple disagreement.
You will never fully get rid of racism just like there will never be world peace. Too many differences and boundaries that conflict with other people's boundaries and beliefs to make that a reality.
I say just make it your mission in life to be the best person you can, treat everyone with respect, don't impose and encroach on one's beliefs and have a solid family and friend circle that will share the same things you do that can bring fulfillment and doesn't conflict with others to the point it creates a problem from nothing.
Sometimes I truly believe the world would be better if people just let ideals and groups leave each other the fuck alone and focus on giving their followers their sole attention and focus. Stop trying to change every little thing because of differences that don't align with what you believe. If someone doesn't wish to partake or participate, let them go do their own thing no harm, no foul.
I mean yes and no.
Stop talking about race will help to remove it some.
But when someone is being racist and trying to grow racism or hurting others with racism, we can't sitback and walk away as if nothing happened.
Also not having a peaceful talk about race hurts nothing if we are both respectful.
What percent of white people know what it is like to live life as a black person, Chinese, or Hispanic or any other race.
What percentage of all the other races understand what it is like to live life as a white person.
How can we come closer as 1 group of people if we don't take time to understand what offends each race.
How many times has a white person offended another race by accident because they don't understand that race.
How many times has another race offended a white person by accident because they didn't understand them.
The problem is so much ego is involved that when someone tells someone that what they say is offensive, the other person goes that doesn't offend me, so that make u a snowflake.
Take a moment and understand them. Take a moment and learn so we can take a step closer to ending the hate.
As for black history it's true it is American history, however the problem is 11 months out the year y is our history excluded from American history?
If what is taught during that month was added to American history their would be no need 2 have black history month.
It works both ways. U can't say we don't need it because it is apart of American history but we don't include it in American history.
Most accomplishments of black Americans was not known by the majority of this country until black history month, y because it was excluded
Groups like Black Lives Matter have increased racism because they try to exclude non blacks from their anti racism communities.
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I think he's right in general.
Of we look through history, black people were far from the first group to ever be discriminated against. Its a story as old as time retold throughout history. This group discriminating against that group.
And time and time again, one group which was held down by another, managed to rise above their oppressors through various means.
And the situation with black folks in the US today is no different.
In my opinion the biggest problem is government. They have created a system that while designed to help black folks, has only hurt them. And to question their system is now equivalent to racism.
We have denied the ability for black people to rise up and take responsibility for their own lives. That option has literally been pulled out from under them in such an insidious way, that to question it is now considered a racist belief.
I feel bad for black folks. Crushed beneath a system that claims to help them with no way out because the only way out is considered and evil hateful belief. And disgusting.
The only option now for black folks, is for the state to completely run their lives. Unlike white people, who have access to the market, blacks are held down by policy that aims to help them up. So now the only option, is for some day, some set of policies is created which puts black people on such an assisted level, that no matter what they do, they can't fail. The option for black folks to raise themselves up has been cut out.
I agree with his statement. However what he say's can only be true once most people accept that idea and push it forward too.
And well i don't think it would ever totally 100% wipe out racism that isn't possible, if there is an idea of a way a person can be and there is 7billion people at least one of them people will be that idea of that way and then with the theory applied there is always multiple people who think alike on something that means there will be more than just 1. So racism can never be wiped out, just like murders or whatever else. But to make race no more important than the color of ones eyes is to stop pointing out like it's a big deal.
No one literally no one, goes ah Brown eyes guy became president. However black man president? that's talked about a ton just based on his skin color however no would talk about just his color of his eyes?
So essentially we need to build a world were nobody points out like it's a big deal and treats it the same as eye color. But maybe that's just a Utopia that will never happen but i fundamentally agree with that train of thought.
While I respect Morgan Freeman, I must say his view on fixing racism is extremely naive. A lot of people parrot this view because on the surface it sounds nice. Not only that, but it's a solution that requires 0 effort to a complex problem. But the reality is much more complex than that and the topic of race is too pervasive in society to be waved out of existence by not talking about it.
You don't fix a leaky faucet by ignoring it. You don't fix a noisy engine by drowning out the noise with loud music. You don't stop acts of violence by ignoring them. You can't have a successful marriage by pretending everything is perfect and you can't end racism by pretending it doesn't exist. Ignoring a problem has NEVER worked as a successful long-term solution.
The sure-fire way to eliminate racism is to acknowledge that a problem exists and to encourage constructive dialogue and ensure people are becoming educated on the topic at hand. Racism is borne out of ignorance and the only way to cure ignorance is through education and meaningful dialogue.
If a couple is in counseling and they review past mistakes, they do so with the intent to resolve them and move forward.
If one or both keeps nitpicking and picking fights with the other that relationship is going down fast.
Diversity is division and class/race warfare.
Unity is the best attitude a couple can have in a relationship and also as a nation.
This is all contrived bullshit for political gain.
Obama didn't fix shit about race when he was in office and watch what else doesn't get fixed with sleepy Joe in office. Race will be highlighted to justify spending more with kickback funnels to their own pockets.
Obama AND JOE already had 8 years and racial tension got worse. The democrats will say "racial healing" and spend money and get richer and nothing will get fixed.
Unity, it's more than platitudes. It's action.
Blame the orange man all you want. This got worse under Obama because the mindless idiots don't know his history. He's doing what he said he was going to do, carrying out the declared agenda of the US Communist party from the 1920's to use racial tension to divide the nation and take power while everyone is distracted. Bam... took a hundred years but it's done. We're doomed as a nation. The Earth benefitted from a strong US but now the world is going to suffer.
Just watch, it's already started and the fact that you can't see it makes all your points irrelevant.
It's already happening.
I agree with him. Same with the confederate flag, the more attention you give it the more people care about it in return. I don't understand why some people love that defunct flag, but times are changing and people eventually lose interest. How many people fly the original 13 colony flag? How about their state flag? They only sport it just to be defiant and to say it "represents the south." As people move on and years go by, people will lose interest. Racism has become an excuse for people, they like using the words "systemic racism" to justify why they don't have a high paying job or career even though they never made any moves in their life aside from getting fucked up everyday. When their involved in the drug life and would rather sling dope for a living, don't worry, they in prison not for gang-banging or dealing, but because of "racial profiling" by police. Take responsibility for yourself, you don't live in the Khmer rouge and no one in the America has ever experienced oppression in any form. Individual racist comments doesn't justify your stupidity or endless victim-hood. There are no firing squads, no mass graves, no concentration camps. You're fine, if you were oppressed no one would have to ask you to leave the U. S, and soldiers would try to prevent you from leaving the country.
It won't completely get rid of it as such a task is impossible, but it will dramatically fix racial relations.
I have seen some people on here compare it to world hunger and stuff like that but thats a false equivalence. At the end of the day, racism is a psychological issue not only from those who are racists but those who think they are targets so it makes sense that psychological tricks like this would work.
It will help racists realize that skin color never matters in determining who someone is as opposed to their interests, where they're from, people they have met and so on.
It will also help those who think they are targets get over the paranoid delusion that white supremacists are around every corner, waiting to strike.
Maybe then, we could have a conversation about most political issues without stretching logic and calling someone a racist on an issue that is irrelevant to race.
Maybe then, most random things like syrup, rice or butter won't be considered racist on the virtue of what their mascot is without caring about its origin.
Maybe it will fix the idea that some groups have privilege over the other without having any proof it exists because they have no frame of reference to base it off of.
All just by simply referring to one another as Americans instead of whatever skin color they have. In short "not seeing race" (but of course that strategy was deemed racist too).
In that mindset, we might find that we aren't as different as we thought.
Morgan Freeman is an ICON, a MAN that I have SOOOO much respect for! Not about his race, but for WHO HE IS, and what he says.
I think he is right! Why do we need to see 'color' and talk about 'black' or 'white', or even 'red' and 'yellow'? We are sooooo much more alike, than we are different!!
It is just past BULLSHIT, and cultural/social things, that divide us! Why?
Why is there a "Black History Month"? Like we should only think about this, in February? What about the rest of the year?
Seems like a naive idea from the perspective of one with privilege. The only way to eliminate racism is work. The will to eliminate it needs to be prevalent. If there are pockets of the country where that will doesn't exist, racism will remain there waiting for the will to subside elsewhere. It may seem intrusive to force people to act like they aren't racists (so they set the example to their offspring), but if we are going to be serious about eliminating racism at a faster pace than is natural, that's the sort of work that must be done.
I voted B. I don't think it's quite that simple. I don't think it's bad to talk about issues such a racial divide. But I also agree with him, in a general looser kind of way - it also can emphasize differences. It gets peoples' backs up, and sometimes it's making an issue out of something, an attempt to defend a person or group that doesn't want or need the defence.
I have always been so impressed with Freeman's acting. He's a powerhouse in every role he takes on. But more and more I am finding him very... unpleasant. He's punchy, pissy, even nasty sometimes. It's getting harder to separate him from his work, which is too bad. But actors are certainly not immortal, or saints. You get interviewed enough, asked enough questions, you probably start losing your ability to hold all your opinions in. I don't think he's necessarily wrong here, I just think I don't really want to listen to his personal opinions on anything anymore (I've felt that way for a while.)
The focus on racism actually makes it worse, that and the government constantly classifying everyone. You know all those papers, what is your race... blah blah blah.
Imagine a world where everyone was just a number, no name, no gender no nothing. Then in that world that number applies for say a job or college. Based on their skills, and test scores they get accepted or not.
Totally fair way to do it, rather than taking people who are less qualified merely cause of their skin color, that is reverse racism.
Me and my friend was just talking about this. I do agree it is American history. The reason though black folks want to label it as you see is because after being disenfranchised, and not given credit where it’s do, the mindset now is to make sure you know who did it and not get overlooked like what’s happened so many times in history. They robbed my last time I’m going to make sure I don’t get robbed this time, type thing. It’s a fear of none recognition, fear of lack of representation. But I agree it is an American history
He's almost right but we we really need to do is stop thinking about it rather than just stop talking about it. We actually have a subconscious racial bias built into us. I forgot the test but there's a test somewhere, I think Harvard University conducts it and it can discern whether or not you have an inbuilt racial bias. I did it and apparently I'm subconsciously racist towards Jews (which aren't actually a race but whatever). The point being it did detect an unconcious bias. So even not thinking about it probably won't eliminate it. I think what we need to do is find a way to create a subconscious attitude of acceptance. But how? I don't know.
The only way this crap ends if if we start talking about this honestly.
We tried ignoring this for centuries and it has nearly cost us our democracy.
And we need to start at the beginning.
He is 100% correct.
The problem is that the perception of racism benefits the Democrat party, so they have been doing everything they can to perpetuate the perception of racism over the last four years, which accomplishes two things:
First, it accomplished the primary purpose of getting Biden/Harris elected.
And second, if creates bitterness and hatred among Americans and divides the country so that Democrats can create the perception that they are the savior swooping in to save a nation divided by Republican racists.
How do you get rid of racism?
You don't. There is a rational case for not being racist and people are too stupid to see it.
People want to feel superior. People want to have someone to blame. So if they get the chance to point the finger at someone for any reason, even their race, they will.
Yeah I agree, we've been nearly past it since the 90s but the left keep dredging it up.
Its pathetic how American blacks have made whole ideologies based on past slavery. Then keep on wallowing in the second hand misery.
Did you know that there have been more slaves in India than anywhere else historically?
During the American slave trade, twice as many whites were enslaved to Arabs than Blacks to American Whites.
Hell, the white colonialism everyone always bitches about ended up ending slavery forever in many countries.
I'm tired of this old white people are bad broken fuckin record.
You'll never eliminate racism cause there will be humans that are always looking for some conflict one way or another.. But, I agree with Mr. Freeman.. Racism was already on life support, and politicians, race hustlers, and a few people who are angry at the world seem to keep the charade going..
That interview with Wallace was from 2005, a decade and a half ago: a lot has happened since then. His solution is idealistic, and simple, yet workable, and if it is going to succeed, many people will have to do a 180 in their actions with others. What many people don't realize is that so many people in our country did a 180 to get us into this mess of name-calling.
Let's stop talking about starvation, homelessness and world hunger, then maybe it'll go away.
I've been talking and associating with Americans for more than 50 years. Who cares what they call themselves. The Constitution doesn't spell people out by color why should I? I'm not playing anyone's stupid race game.
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