The ironic thing is that it is self-perpetuating. It seems to me, this woman sees herself as "black" first and foremost, and thus assumes that’s the first thing other people see too, even (no, especially) other black people. She sees the other two guys waiting as "white" first and foremost. Then, when something bad happens to her, like she doesn’t get the cab she wants, she assumes that it is due to the first and foremost characteristic. But her focus on race, and her assumption that racial perceptions (you know, the part of you that says "oh, that lady is black") overpower all other perceptions/beliefs/decisions, that perpetuates the treating of individuals as merely representatives of their race.
I don’t think humans will ever get past the racial perception I mentioned above, because it’s just like the part of you that notices (not fixates, notices) "hey, that girl is tall" or "boy, does this guy’s breath stink". It’s the assumption that people cannot get PAST that point that sucks and, nowadays, is probably an unfair assumption to make of someone you’ve never met. |
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a destructive tendency to cheapen the social stigma as many indiscriminately and inappropriately cry ____.... A while back I took exception to your use of Gulag to describe Gitmo. While an alluring rhetorical device, especially when you are not generating the passion within your audience you think requisite, this argumentative simile ultimately does disservice to your own own argument.
By comparing Guantanamo to the Soviet gulag system, you did not, as was your intention, worsen our perception of Gitmo, rather you softened the horrors of the real gulag system. |
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Surprised the ’sexist’ charge wasn’t used as well, since there is a stereotype of women being poor tippers. |
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At the risk of being called a racist, I’ve this year, most especially thanks to Obama’s pastor and church, that blacks are just way too sensitive to racism that really doesn’t exist or is so mild that it is unrecognizable.
This story puts in in a nutshell. |
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