The Modern Racist Paradigm

I tell people all the time to stop watching television, and mainstream media because it brainwashes you. Most people look at me like I’m completely insane. Some even laugh. It’s as if Hollywood has prepared us for war against the Middle East for years or maybe it’s the attitude in Hollywood that caused the US to villify them.

People forget or are unaware our goverment did business with Arabs and supported them militarily for years. I love that part about “you dare to call us terrorists?!”…Exactly They must see the US as terrorists.

im calling bs.

no one considers why these kids might pick a white doll. if they live in a predominantly black neighborhood in america they have probably already been exposed to gang violence. thats nurture.

nature shows that african blacks were the first humans. it makes perfect sense that there would be more of an attraction to variants of human that developed later.

Dnyce721

im assuming you meant ‘psychological effects’ not ’sicological affects’

i called bs because this docs main sources are stuff some nobody said on some website because he/she felt black people are put upon. its a biased work with no credibility.

LOL, of course most of the media in white mjority countries is aimed at white people…

Im not saying that Whites are supperior, just that it’s a natural occurrence for the majority ethnicity to be represented a lot more in the media.

Okay seriously, i didn’t watch it before i commented, but from watching half of it, im also gonna call bullshit.

That text you see popping up has already made an oppinion about the issue.

I agree, kaz. This documentary would have been far more powerful if it was better researched and less opinionated. The basic message is entirely true, but it comes off sounding just as racist as the media when it starts talking about Zionism. The narrator inserts some comments that are entirely biased and not very well-thought out. The film itself would have been easier to watch if it had consisted of more clips and less quotes (and better quotes!).

And to AJ, “you give blacks your finger and they want your whole hand,” ..c’mon, seriously? Black people aren’t asking for white people to give them anything except the same recognition and respect as everyone else. If they want your hand it’s only because they can’t use their own in a society where white hands are ‘better’ than black hands. It has nothing to do with what you give them, what color their skin is, what ethnicity they come from; it has everything to with human decency and the right to life and the pursuit of happiness.

Well 1st of all, this movie is about everything what is trying to be opposed. Yes its about racism against white people. If you say I am proud to be black its ok…but if you say I am proud to be white then you are rasist?! I am for equal rights for ANYONE /black, white, yellow or whatever the color of their skin is/. We all are humas and we all deserve same opportunity. If some people think that they are not being treated as equal as others…speak up. But NO in aggresive way. DONT attack other races. Because result will be catastrophic.

And quotes are … well can you imagine that word black is change for white and vice versa? Damn this movie wont be allowed to be seen anywhere but on clucluxclan parties. In case this movie was aimed against black people in a same way as it is now aimed against white people…I /as a white male/ would be totally and strictly against such a terrible and dangerous thoughts. So try to think before you start to hate someone just because his skin is different. Its sad that we have this problem in 21st century.

Just saw the rest of the documentary, ummmm. The part about arabs isnt entirely correct. While I do agree that arabs are not fairly portrayed in the media, many of them do in fact treat their women badly and hate jews. And in back to the future, you have to remember that this was during a time in history of USA after the iran crisis. Anyway this documentary is mixed. I like parts of it and hate other parts. Its still very biased. But I like the first part of it where they spoke in favor of people embracing their culture and enough with trying to be white.

Its possible to like a part of something and agree with a part of something, while not with the entire thing. I give it a 5/10.

Complete garbage film, extremley biased and pretty much just another example of riding the gravytrain of victimhood.

A thought provoking documentary which would have been much better had the makers made two different documentaries with one being about how the media has created a feeling of inferiority within the minds of non whites and the second about Hollywood’s vilification of the Arab people.

Living in Asia (Japan, China and Korea) as I have been for the last 10 years it saddens me to see beautiful Asia woman putting on so much crap on their faces so they can look whiter, and getting surgery to make their eyes bigger and noses higher.

Although it has already been commented, this does documentary has its faults and the makers could have done a better job by leaving out their ‘racist’ Zionist comments.

That being said, the point made about the idea of beauty created and perpetuated by the white media is true and it really has messed up the minds of so many people who do not even know it.

Living in Asia I can see that Asians have an inferiority complex towards whites thinking them to be more attractive than their own people; why? It is simply because they see white images on all the covers of glossy magazines and in the leading roles in the top Hollywood movies and associate them with rich, glamorous and successful.

What this does to a non white person’s self esteem is unimaginable. I have a young attractive friend who thinks she is unattractive who will soon have surgery to alter her entire face shape. It could kill her but she is prepare to take that risk; why? Because she has been brainwashed like so many others believing that only by having surgery can she make it and be successful in her own country (South Korea) where people are often judged by their external appearance.

We need more documentaries where people can see how they’ve been conditioned by the media who always have a certain agenda, so that people can learn to think for themselves and not just reflect the views of what society is telling them.

Although this documentary has many faults, but well done to the makers, for it is a needed step in the right direction for non white people to wake up and see their own beauty and not have their people, nor their beauty defined by another culture or ethnic group.

Just how for has Africa come to becoming a world power. they ve had a chance just like every other nation. Eygpt is in africa. what happened did they give up and say let the white run it for awhile.

@chocolateQueen: I feel sorry for you. Your argument is weak and illogical and the video thesis validates your internalized self-hatred not only for yourself, but also for your own people who speak truth.

Your response is the typical response from blacks you seek to defend the white supremacy agenda. You cannot help yourself; you love the master and their children. I feel sorry for you because you refuse to come to terms that you have been programmed, brainwashed; the Willie Lynch Chip is in full affect mode.

It is obvious; you have no real knowledge of yourself and are asleep. The truth is in the breaking of the enslaved African they were program in the interest of the white European’s agenda. We were a product/commodity. They took away our natural essence (Being) as a people. European settlers and the framers of this United States of America away our language, our history, culture, and destroyed our family structure. Created African enslaved men into studs, raped and killed them, changed our names to European names, told us we were nothing but animals beneath them; committed horrible acts against enslaved Africans. They terrorized us to no end after emancipation and created a judicial system to lock African-American black men up, by doing this, they were not allowing them to take care of their family and keep them in a perpetual state of slavery. This has had a detrimental impact and effect or our sustainability as a culture. To this day, most white people have an internalized hatred for us and do not see us as citizens of this country no matter that we now have an African-America President. Can you not see that? Moreover, its effects and still be felt today, just internalized. Can you not see that the way you act, think, and behave is not you? You think, behave, etc. the way you do because they have programmed you to think their way. Therefore, your attempt to call me a racist has no validity what so ever. You are in a perpetual stupor and will continue to be stupid and ignorant until you wake up. You have been ‘blinded, bamboozled, hood-winked, lied to, program to the white man, woman, and child’s agenda’(Malcolm X) my sister, wake up, and free your mind.

P.S. Check out some of Dr. Ray Hagins videos. You can start with “How to deactivate your Willie Lynch Chip”.

Ms. Oglesby

Of course whites are to blame for all the injustice happening around, for they dictate and still do dictate the lives of colored’s for their existence in this planet. which they think is part of evolution.
All around Whites have twisted the other peoples culture and history through their mass media… picturing us as evil.
Surely the black man is trying to survive too -gang war style just as the whites introduce to them. and this seems to be a problems for the whites now. their is a saying “if you point a finger it will point back to you”.
look at your plate white man and see what you eat everything planted by other cultures, even your god is imported. know yourself man.
Remember we the colored’s had and still do have Our own faiths and beliefs so we give time for Karma to solve matters in this kaliyuga times. You say we are ignorant!!! no man the only thing u keep us at bay is with your Hiroshima bombs. but OUR glories time shall arrive…….and on that day you will learn about real love from us just as you have learned all other things for your survival from our ancient cultures upto now. for the sun, moon and all the elements will be witness, and shall hale the rise of black man……to his original place in this living mother earth.
Then you will say sorry man and sure will forgive you for you are the ignorant seed.

@lunda
Of course you’re not ignorant. You personally are even superior. Especially your spelling, ‘man’.

@chocolateQuenn:

First of all, I expressed how I felt about the video. My comment was based on my opinion of the video. If you did not like what I said, you did not have to reply. Remember, you are the one who replied to my comment. You are the one who called me a racist, because of my views, which were not warrented in the first place. You can not play the rhetorical reversed psychology on me. I have plenty of white friends who understand the impact their ancestors had on African’s who were enslaved. As I always say, in order to correct the present, you have to understand the past and why people do the things they do in the present. I am merely pointing out a wrong as a point of reference for making sustainable change today. African-American’s should never forget the journey they have traveled. I would like you to ask the Jews to move on and forget the trials and tribulations that they experienced.

Furthermore, just because you live in another part of the world doesn’t mean that Africans or other non-white cultures did not experience white supremacy/collonialism…It never fails some white-washed black always wants to tell another black person to get over it. Tell Emmit Till’s mother to get over the fact that they killed her son for being black. Tell, the children of Martin Luther King, Jr. to get over it. Tell Medgar Evers family to get over it, tell Nicole Peltre Bell to get over her fiance Sean Bell being killed (shot 50 times)for being black. Tell Sojorner Truth to get over being a slave, tell the indigenous North American Indians to get over it; they now live on reservations. Oh, I would love for you to tell Minister Louis Farrakhan to get over it…Tell Jessie Jackson to get over it.

And yes, it is sad that we as African who were enslaved had to indure terrorism in this country. Yes, it is sad that hundreds of thousands of black men were strung up and hung in trees for simply being African. As for your comment about if I hate their culture and language why do I use it – that is my whole point of my original comment that you so eloquently decided to comment on. If my African ancertors were not stolen and taken from their home land we would not be here, thinking, acting, and talking like them.

For the record you are stupid and ignorant – defined as lacking truth and knowledge and stupid – defined as lacking sense or intelligence as displayed in the tone of your reply’s.

Oh, for the record I am of mixed heritage as well thank you.

Ms. O

@X: I just simply speak my mind. That is what everyone else does when they recognize the conscious truth.

The scienific experiments seems to have confounds, but difficult to determine without analysis,just because it makes it into a journal does not mean it is entirely correct.

Bottomline: Media teaches you to hate yourself.
Doesn’t matter if you are white, black, yellow, red, male, female, a child, a family, a homosexual, or an animal you will be stereotyped.
Movies are reproduced regurgitated stories where only the actors and locations change, the plot stays the same.
The consumer drives the market. The target market is the youth.
What makes money in the world market is violence, drugs, and sex. Drives the whole Industry.
The Canadian Film Industry/CBC recognizes this and promotes Canadian content for this reason, problem is they always have to beg for funding.
High Art rarely hits the air, nor do foreign films, especially if they have subtitleing.
What people consider “Beautiful” changes every decade!
Even Hitler’s Officer proclaimed “Tell a lie repeatedly and it becomes Truth” not an exact quotation but you get my drift. It is more dangerous than subliminal messaging.
So now you know propaganda is dangerous, so be more particlular about what you choose to support financially.
I am sad that the discussion went from making you aware of a problem to you attacking each other, obviously more personal growth needs to take place.

It is obvious from reading the comments that we are all affected by race issues, in some way or other, and likely to no fault of our own. I couldn’t tell from watching the documentary what race the maker was, and I didn’t read the summary. I would have appreciated more statistics or even knowing why the children thought what they did; I did appreciate that this film did not focus on black/white issues along-several races were discussed/featured in the presentation, but for me that is neither here nor there.

This documentary made me cry. It touched me very deeply. DH & I plan to try for children next year and he cannot understand my objection to dolls for little girls. I told him I never want my child to feel inferior based on her appearance and I think dolls contribute to this. The doll tests in this video struck a nerve with me. My mother is mixed and my father is black. My sister had a mixed father and I was constantly reminded as a child that I was not light enough, like my mother and sister. I was in college before I realized that I was not dark skinned (I was nicknamed Red). This abuse, however, did not come from white people. It came from black people who thought that white was better. I was doubly critisized for not having a big butt, which is another stereotype a black woman may be made to suffer. As a adult, I unfortunately still battle these demons and I would hate to pass them on to my children.

There are many other stereotypes that many women & men suffer, regardless of race. Yet we all bleed the same. I think the best lesson ALL can learn from this documentary is self-love, self-respect, respect of others and the self-assurance that ALL of God’s children are beautiful. That is certainly what I will take away from it.

@Kay and Karen: The reason this video was posted was to create dialog on the topic of racism, hence the title “The Modern Racist Paradigm”.

This video touches on the effects of White Supremacy. How the effects have for centuries impacted and affected African’s and many other cultures and races outside of European’s (whites).

What you the two of you fail to realize is the severe psychological impact of White Supremacy in African culture/race has had for centuries. What fustrates me is that often times people, like you two, offer no help, but to accuse blacks in creating streotypes, etc. without critical analysis or critical reflection of White Supremacy in this society as a whole. It would behove you to read Dr. Welsing, Dr. Bobby E. Wright, Dr. Amos N. Wilson, and others have asserted that the psychology behind this needs to be analyzed instead of analyzing the effects or symptoms of the White Supremacist cause. For example, an abuser asks his victim why the victim is abused and how did they get those bruses, etc., it must of been because you tripped and feel, when all along the abuser is the one who caused the bruses on the victim in the first place. To negate the cause is to negate a effect thus no solution is created to change the behvior of the abuser nor the behavior of the victim and therefore the abuse continues on the part of the abuser psychologically and physically towards African-Americans and other peoples of color. One must look at why White Supremacy exists in the first place.

African-Americans are the way they are because of the effect psychological trauma, brought about by centuries of terrorism from the Klu Klux Klan, marginalization from society in all areas of finance, media, education, healthcare, etc. However, this issue is really much deeper as Dr. Frances C. Welsing and others state infatically that White Supremacy exits as a means of genetic survival since they came from the Caucus Mountains after the glacier period some 3-6ooo years ago. Mind you African culture and societies raigned for hundreds of thousands of years before the appearance of Indo-Europeans ever existed.

My point as stated above is that before true change can occur, one must analyze the cause first; cause equals effect. Yes, today, there are a lot of issues plagues all races, but how do you think it got this way? What happen to the native Indian race? Why do we have boarders in this country or other countries for that matter? Why is there hatred between Israel/Palestine? Why is ALL of Africa divided amonst European countries and no African owns any part of Africa!! Yet, these European countries are sucking Africa dry for gold, diamond, oil; all of their natural resources and not one African own a percentage over 85%?????

I think this doc could have had lots of potential but I don’t think it was well done. It was just an assemblage of clips and minuscule font paragraphs that I got tired of reading. However I do very much agree with the points made in the film: the white-male dominance of pretty much everything related to media, business and politics, the whole notion that white beauty is presented as being superior and the damaging stereotypes made in film… I believe the portrayal of arabs to be particularily worrying because no one wants to defend their culture right now. The media is continuing to engrave this gun-loving, western/jew-hating into the minds of the people and is contributing to escalating violence, fear and muslimaphobia… tragic.
the part of the film that got to me the most was that woman speaker at the end. Her voice and message was very powerful. Makes me feel guilty for being white… I know i make small judgments based on race and I am so ashamed…

To address white and proud;

You said “do whites perpetuate gang violence among blacks? no.”

If you look at crime statistics, incarceration rates of adult black American males and many other social factors, you would come to a different conclusion. By simplifying the issues, you can yield a simple answer. I suspect you have never much investigated these issues, i would encourage you to.

For example, in 1926, 12% of US population was black, 21% of prisoners were. By 1993 that figured was up to 55% while they still represent only 12% of the population. Furthermore, in the last 25 years the US has increased its prison population 4 fold while there has been NO increase in the reported rate of crime. When you crunch the numbers, the majority of adult black American males are at some point in their lives under the control of the legal apparatus. Clearly, if you interpret these numbers correctly, you come to realize that there is something deeply wrong with the American criminal (in)justice system. Who has created and continues to build this system? The dominant culture that certainly is predominantly white. Please do not reduce the issues to some simple question of the sort that I quoted above, it’s a disservice to principled discussion.

This documentary is horrible! Taking tv snippets and making assumptions about peoples predisposed ideals (from the tyra banks show of all places?) is unfounded, misguided and should not be taken seriously. This comes across way too much as a conspiracy theory rather than a proper documentary. This one teaches you to hate and hate only propagates hate. Discussion is the key to this problem, people are scared of what they don’t know whether it be a different culture or religion or skin colour. I think there should be a more balanced portrayal of all races in the media but it wont change by shaking our heads. Teach, discuss and protest peacefully. Brewing in hatred only further marginalizes the issue.

Kifagi, I am not saying the issues behind this documentary aren’t real and urgent. I was saying that this documentary forces the viewer to slant one way rather than showing facts and atrocities that speak for themselves. I’m from Australia and we too have a problem with racism, we had a Prime Minister (John Howard) who refused to say sorry even when we had a massive rally outside parliament for the Aboriginal’s dark and bloody history. We got rid of him and our new prime minister did say sorry for all that had happened and we had measures in place to compensate them and bring us closer together. It will still take time for us to fully compensate and help them with better housing and what not, but it is happening. This would not have happened without the Aboriginal’s help through making awareness and through our media in a positive light.

Kifagi, white people like me want to hear you, if you have a problem though don’t expect someone to read your mind. Get out there and start making people aware. It’s easy to sit back and wait for someone to come and help you but the stark reality is that there is so much other stuff going on in the world that it gets put to one side. It sucks, but you sound like an intelligent guy, I would prefer to hear your voice on a tv show or radio show explaining what you would like to happen rather than some white congressman doing it for the wrong reasons and screwing it up.

i hear alote of WHITE in this video is this a war against white? i think this video itself is racist and why is there so many white ppl that trys to look like black gangsters?

first off…my stats, i’m 22/white/male….now why i’m commenting. Guys..do me a favor and stfu plz about white surpremacy do.o White Supremacy comes from White Majority (as far as industrialized nations go) so stfu about it? you wanna hear statistics about the “supremacy?” shove that one in your pipe and smoke it, we, as far as the devolped nations go, outnumber everyone else…

The only thing I like about this is that it successfully demonstrates to a white male (especially the Tyra bit, and WTF did that woman do to her beautiful eyelids?) that racism exists–but mostly today in an ‘internalized’ form, within people who wish they were white, or think it’s desireable to be white, or whatever. Frankly, I think Tyra’s hair is beautiful as it is naturally. For her to assume that she has to pretend to be white (whatever that means) is insulting to everyone’s intelligence and especially to herself. Did I or my ansestors do that to he? Can people just STFU aleady and realize that there are gradients of desirable characteristiscs of people from all races, creeds, etc? God damn.

@lunda–don’t worry… Soon we will all be enslaved and united in this ‘One World.’ The division into first, second and third was just to give some who cooperate a head start.

@Oglesby–thanks for the Hagins reference.

@Oglesby–Just to clarify, I disagree with you because what you attribute to racism is really the result of slavery. Not all ‘black people’ were slaves, as chocolateQueen demonstrates.

“Is there ANY one able to come up with a solution to counter racism in the micro/macrocoism of society and stop bioterrorism, war, hunger, famine global white domination in ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, Asian, and India, the wanna be whiteing of the globe…The outright genetic innialation of color people through various mean, immunization, missionarism of ALL “third world” countries?”

This is a joke right? C’mon Farren, you know war is older than the human race, and slavery is more ancient than your narrow view of it, so don’t act like it is some uniquely white creation.

This why they told all black people that God is white and His son Jesus, like stupid people, they all go to church and kneel before a white God.(no offence to anyone), But this is the real fact in our society. When i ask every black man that” why don’t we even see a black prophet in the all Bible? Nobody gives me an answer. For the Mormons, blacks are evil, the descendants of Satan, if you don’t know this, go and find out.

What are the signs of racism and effects?

Reducing people of other races to racial stereotypes. This can often be done in very subtle ways. For example, confusing race with culture, a belief that certain races are more adept in particular jobs or functions, a belief in differences in intelligence between the races, etc.

Advocation of segregation. This advocation represents a belief that different races should live apart, be educated separately or not intermarry. The advocacy can occur explicitly or implicitly.

Extreme pride in one’s own country or race. Patriotism can be laudable but when taken to extremes, this sentiment becomes the basis of all fascist regimes.

Association. It is common for racists to associate with other racists. While not necessarily espousing racist opinions themselves it is common for them to personally defend other racists (without directly defending their opinions).

Belittlement of members of other races. Racist will constantly criticize the opinions of other races or even ridicule them. Often they will do it without explicitly making mention of the race of the person or persons.

Latent hate. An exaggerated reaction to any misconduct from a person of the other race, where the punishment is out of all proportion to the original wrong (real or perceived) and completely ignores the provocation which could have led to the original “wrong”. Also, no feeling of moral debt to a racially “other” person for any favors he may have done.
Denial. Racist denies that the other person’s or group’s intelligence, cultural level, social status or other merits even in the face of overwhelming evidence which proves these qualities. The racist will attempt to “objectively” show proof, usually in the form of insignificant details to contradict the obvious.

Constant references to race. A mere mention of someone’s race on a first encounter could be benign but when these references continue after a long period of knowing that person, no matter how innocent the references may appear, they establish an unmistakable pattern.

Antagonistic sentiments. When a person has anatognistic towards someone at first sight it is often related to skin color. The only information that one normally has about someone on seeing them for the first time is their skin color.

Invisibility. An indifference to the plight of members of society who are of other races when they suffer injustices. It is typical of the racist to claim that he is under no obligation to help or that the situation in question is somehow an “inevitable” by-product of some greater good. When the great majority of members of the disadvantaged group are not of his race a pattern emerges.

Presumption of racism in members of own race. Racists typically expect members of their own race to be similarly racist. This often results in expectations of preferential treatment and they expect, for example, members of their race to see the humor in racist jokes or join with them in what but for the race of the victim would be seen as morally reprehensible behavior.

Condescending attitude or behavior. Racists show condescending attitudes towards members of other races. For this reason they often try to use even members of the race which they despise to attack members of that race which cause them most offense. They believe that these other members of the victimized race will collaborate because of the magnanimity which the racist is showing in momentarily treating them as members of the “superior” race.

Strongest reaction to members of other race which rebut racist model. The members of the other race which a racist will typically try most to denigrate are those which act as a rebuttal to his model of what members of the other race should be. If this model is a weak, timid and stupid person, he will see a strong, independent and intelligent person of the “inferior” race as a threat to his model. If they do not attack this person directly, racists contend with this by speaking of “exceptions” to their theory.

Extreme reaction to word racist. Normally the worst insult which an extreme racist can receive is to be called a racist in public. For the extreme racist it is infuriating because there is no adequate response. On the one hand he does not really want to deny it but he knows that the implications of this word are generally negative. It is not like being called stupid or ignorant, because it is difficult for him to counterattack by simply reverting the accusation. The idea that a member of the other race could look down upon the race of the racist normally challenges the model that the racist has about this other race (he typically sees it as weak, timid and cowardly). If he attempts to ridicule the other person he will publicly prove the original accusation correct.

No insight into own prejudice. It is common for racists to have no insight into their own prejudice. This is because they believe their prejudice to be based upon objective grounds.

Indifference to the opinions of members of the other race. It is typical of racists to e.g. make fun of members of the “inferior” race without any consideration for what those members will then think of these racists. At best, racists only care about what people of their own race think of them.

Lack of impartiality. This is extremely common and affects practically all the racist’s opinions and decision-making. Its effects extend beyond the obvious areas like jobs, education and housing. Veneration of great historical figures, membership of clubs and societies etc.

Acceptance of racist behavior or conduct. To view “mildly” racist acts as either reasonable or, at least, not racist and to feel that more severely racist acts are wrong but “understandable”.

Failure to recognize impact of racism on the victim. To believe that a victim of racism can be unaltered by racism. For example, when racists examine apparent differences between members of different races or ethnic groups they completely ignore all differences in circumstances and history which could have affected the “inferior” race.

Maintaining superior position “By all means possible”. A phrase often remembered as a precept of the maintenance of slavery in the Southern United States during the nineteenth century. A racist will use all means possible to preserve the inferior position of the victimized race. Even a person with social motivations and benevolent to members of his own race is capable of violence and other forms of crime towards members of what he views as the “inferior” race. He could easily support the use of force to maintain those disadvantaged by racism in their present condition

@truthandjusticeforallMBA

heres another example of your own racist views…

“No matter the racist comments you make the truth is always existent and that is why you white people hate Africans and other people of color, because you hate purity, balance, harmony of the Universe.”

what a ridiculous statement! “you white people” you say, generalizing caucasians, “hate purity, balance, harmony of the Universe.”
so by your logic, all whites stand for impurity, imbalance, and dissonance of the universe.

you just got wrecked kid.

@ lol@comments

You ask why all white people should be ashamed of the slavery and that you have no history of slave ownership in your family. You might not have had no slave ownership in your family but still you benefit of the work of the ones that did by havin better chances in this society as a white persoon. So wouldn´t you agree that everyone that benefits of the effects of a crime is as guilty as the criminal? Now we can´t turn back time but we can educate ourselfs so we can better understand eachother and dus our feelings especially when it comes to racism…

lol@comments: Your just a typical white man/woman who can’t look beyond your white privilege/racist ideology to even begin to think on my level as a black woman let alone our African Nation.

I have come to realize that white people like yourself, like to create havoc, then go around diatribing, labeling and judging the effects of blacks, never, asking how or why of it they have these behaviors and attitudes.

White people convienietly forget or overlook, or turn the other cheeck, or hide their dirty/bloody hands. It is easy for you to cause trouble Monday thru Saturday, then go to church on Sunday and ask for forgiveness. Your pathological egos and narcissitic ways sicken me.

The thing that you and other white people like you is that you just simply do not get it. We are all human beings(mankind & womankind).

Yes, white people are imbalanced, impure, and dissonant to the Universe. Look at your history; look at our planet and how you and your white peoples have and continue to destroy the Earth; deforestation, excessive uses of natural resources around the world, killed off humans like the Native American and indigenous peoples (who are black)around the globe with your racist ideology, killed of many animals that we now have to put them on the endangered list, etc. It is your white people who have done these things to the planet not the people of color. It is obvious that everywhere white people go people die, that is being impure, unbalanced, demonic, evil because you lack compassion for humanity.

lol@comment: You are in no capacity to tell me an African-American how I feel or what I experience as a victim of racism in the United States of America and globally.

Furthermore, this goes for you and others like you. Your statement that I or African-Americans are racists is nothing more than your attempt to playing reverse psychology. It is yet another attempt to throw rocks and hind your blood dripping hands. It is another attempt to absolve yourselves. It will not work with me, ever.

We as victims of racism, black people have a right to express ourselves regarding the treatment by whites. White people cannot and do not have the right to tell me how I am supposed to feel or tell me what is or isn’t happening to me. The person who made the documentary expressed her feeling as a black woman and the effects of racism in this country (US and abroad/globally). Your attempt at playing psychological games with me will never work, ever. You are a pathological racist. You lack compassion as it relates to blacks in this country, reasoning, logic, morals, values and you unconcerned for blacks.

If you cared for blacks, even the size of a mustard seed your conversation would clearly be different.

@truthandjusticeforallMBA

“We are all human beings”
well, duh.
your trying to move the goalposts now that i highlighted the problems with your bigoted arguments.

anyone who reads my comments will see that i never judge anyone on the color of their skin. i judge them on how silly and illogical their arguments are.

you ought to be ashamed of yourself for preaching against the sins of racism, when the very seed of it is planted in your hate filled heart.

for shame.

To all:

Racism as it is argued here is a distinctly American phenomenon. It is a difficult subject to tackle because America has never had an honest and open dialogue about it. It is not gone, nor is it simply something of the past, as a brief study of America’s prison-industrial complex/ public school system/ patterns of gentrification will attest. America is as segregated now as it ever was and our media is as shameful in its portrayal of “others” as it was 50 years ago.

Now while it is erroneous to conclude that ALL or even most white people are responsible for this or that in the lives of black americans (most, or all, really do not give a damn except when it imposes on their own livelihoods directly), it is equally ignorant to claim that oppressed minorities must simply “get over it” with respect to the traumatic events in large part responsible for the many “freedoms” we enjoy in this country today.

Consider this: if it is possible for an individual to suffer from PTSD as the result of trauma, surely it is equally likely that an entire community can suffer from the social equivalent. The trauma inflicted upon GENERATIONS will not be easily corrected by a well-meaning few in a period of a few years.

Consider also that the last time that America was confronted honestly and substantively with its behaviors throughout its short history, the powers-that-be made every effort to assassinate, corrupt, co-opt, and disinform the effort.

Racism is complex. Its purpose is intended to divide and deflect from REAL issues (particularly class issues). The discussion as it has evolved above is every evidence of that fact.

Let us try to focus less on racism and more on our shared humanity. Look at the experiences of another human being and try to relate to that. This way no one needs to be discounted, every one is needed, and we ALL learn something from one another.

Very interesting documentary, the parts where the black and latino children said it was better to be white was sickening.
However, I have two issues with the film:

1 – Who is the criminal? The scowling guy in the hoodie or the guy in the nice button-up shirt? What a joke.

2 – The test to determine racial preference. I took that test. I was not surprised that it took me longer and that I made more mistakes when things were switched around. Isn’t that to be expected? I had been pressing with my right finger for negative word/black face for a while, then I had to switch. So now, every time I see a black face I have to remind myself to press the other key, my response is no longer a conditioned reflex. I can’t believe how much stock is being put in this study, for the tests to have any merit half the time white should be paired with negative words at the beginning.

Films always showed half truths and semi-fairy tale realities about the world. Just check movies about ancient greece, you’d laugh your head off if you have knowledge about history while seeing movies like “Hercules and Medusa” and such.

So why believe another kind of movie shows Arabs, Black people and other hot-issue societies correctly?

** villianization.

US is racist, always as been, but will it always be ???
Of course the US is not the only racist country. What’s interesting is the only time the world can see how, how, i can’t even find a strong enough word that would describe white people’s destruction of races, are in Documentaries (witch are at 99% never seen on TV).
How can one not see these injustices day after day and even try to find arguments to give these reasons.