I have no problem with the way Ms. Alba feels. I don’t get on black people who want to live there lives apart. I only have problem with those blacks if they live apart and then think they have a say in something they are not involve with. I once thought that I could step in society and live without the boundaries of racism, but I have gotten tagged and beaten back and insisted that I stay in my place. Even when I tell you how my life has been and is; you still persist your perception of racism is true and mine isn’t. Every comment you make about a black person making to much about racism is trying to make that persons life a lie. What do you want us to say, “OK massa, youse right”? It also sound like you want us to get back into our place and live within your boundaries. Interesting, since these blogs are libertarian.

Kudos to her for standing up for herself and her upbringing.

Let “Jenny from the block” be their role model if they so desperately need one.

Their Telugu is better than mine in general but my knowledge and attention to cultural/historical/philosophical/religious crap is usually much greater.

I also act less ‘white’ for lack of a better term.

But yeah, any excuse to bring up Jessica Alba is a good one…

The other issue to consider is the fact that a white racist, such as David Duke, is instantly labeled a racist and treated as one by everyone else. However, take a member of La Raza, a racist Latino group, and they are legitimate. How are this Latino supremecy group any different than a white supremecy group? There are racists in all groups; just not all racists are treated equally.

Do I smell different from other brown people? Maybe at birth they put a UV tattoo on the forehead of all non-hispanic/non-black brown people, and all white racists wear special UV contact lenses so they can tell the difference?

Whatever it is, while I’ve encountered plenty of racism in my time, its mostly been an annoyance and rarely if ever been a hinderance.

I think you are saying:

Once any black person [says] “black” or “Afro-American” or “colored” or “Negro”[, then should he say] anything else that doesn’t agree with [a white person,] he will be called a racist [by the white person]. I think whites play the race card much more often than blacks. In the real world it is very hard to deal with continuous slights and not wonder if it is racism. [By slights] I don’t mean not being PC.

Is this correct?

If it is, I have to disagree with you. In my experience, I far more often hear the charge of racism leveled against whites than against blacks for identical provocations. In fact, my experiences correlate with this story.

Of course, this is not to deny that there are racists out there who are white. It’s just that I run into white racists far less often than I run into black racists. Of course, the most racist people I have encountered have been Japanese – but that is a rant for another day.

What is galling to me is that I or people I know have on several occasions been accused of racism. In every case the charge was wholly unjustified, and pursued by someone who was confusing the beam in their own eye for a splinter in the eye of another.

Every unjustified accusation does have the terrible side effect of making legitimate accusations seem less credible, so they should be frowned upon.

With that being said, I think Jessica Alba’s point is valid. After all, I was born in Turkey. I have a Turkish name. Yet, anybody from the old country who knows me would agree that culturally I am not a Turk. If she doesn’t consider herself hispanic, then that’s fine. Personally all these artificial groupings are ridiculous.

Incidentally, I find your last paragraph, which I believe implies that white people are inherently racist to be quite offensive and incorrect.

White people also coined the phrase “white trash” not black people.

Nick,
Once any black person say black or Afro-American or colored or Negro: anything else he says that doesn’t agree with the blogger or whomever; the black gets called racist. I think whites play the race card much more often than blacks. In the real world it is very hard to deal with continuous slights and not wonder if it is racism. I don’t mean not being PC.
When the racist words disappear, code words appear in the white mythology of race.