I totally see where you are coming from on that. Really, I do. I hate the term racism in general.

I guess what bugs me is, when it is anyone other than a white person, it is labeled as racism. What are we supposed to call it when it happens to us?

Amen to that. Racist, by it's definition, does not exlude any race. If you hate all whites, you are racist. If you hate all Mexicans, you are racist. If you hate all blacks, Asians, Jews, etc., you are racist.

The reverse of racism is acceptance. Clearly what is being called "reverse racism" is in no way a reverse of racism.

Racism. It's still a prejudice that targets a specific race, so it is still racism.

I wish I could upvote you more.

Racism frustrates me, no matter who is behind it.

Does it matter? Hate is hate, and your skin colour doesn't make you any better or worse for perpetuating it.

I could go on for hours giving examples of where racism against fair-skinned Canadians is applauded, but I won't to save you all from a rant.

When I read articles such as this, and the discussion that followed here in the comments, all I can think about is calling up my mama and thanking her for raising me the way she did.

I grew up in the most multicultural community in the (Canadian) prairies, and I spent every summer in the north. As a result, I don't see skin colour as being anything more meaningful than hair colour, although everyone's culture is something to be embraced. Dene, Hindu, Filipino, Ukrainian.... we're all humans!

Amen sister~

C'mere and gimme some sugar!

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When I was 12 years old I went, along with my church youth group, to "The Church of the Masters" in Harlem.

"The Church of the Masters" is, to understate, a predominantly black church. We attended a service and then went to the hall for Sunday School. During this time I was asked to leave the room, or rather, ordered to do so.

I was gone 5 minutes or so before I was ordered back in. After I was ordered back in I was denigrated by everyone. For being "whatever". They found some reason, my patent leather shoes, my white gloves (we dressed like that for church back then) my hair, my eye color...whatever. It was a set up and a lesson. I was blind-sided. I had no idea what they were doing or why. All I knew was that I was not liked, not welcome, not wanted and not human. They hated me. The friends I came up there with, the leaders, everyone. I had somehow made everyone hate me and I didn't know why and I couldn't change it or control it or make it stop.

Ultimately a girl about my age, a member of the church took my hand in hers. We were both crying at that point and they explained to me that they were trying to show what discrimination and prejudice is. I don't know if anyone else learned a lesson that day but even now, when I think back to that day I cry. I know that I felt dehumanized and I know that discrimination, in whatever form, in whichever race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, size or age that discrimination takes, it is dehumanizing. I don't need that study or any paper to tell me it's so, I know it's so.

I still remember that girl, pigtails, yellow dress, rough palms that tenderly took my broken spirit in her hands and made me feel like a person again. She was the only person who wouldn't join in on the taunts, she did keep silent but she couldn't help but cry and feel my pain. I hope she has gone on to great things.

Now, this story won't mean anything to you if you've never experienced real discrimination. It's just another story that maybe you can sympathize with but not empathize with. Truly discrimination knows no bounds but there are some groups that suffer it to a far greater degree. Some groups even get used to it, maybe not embrace it but eventually come to deal with it, on the whole, as "how it is". Perhaps that's the most dehumanizing effect of all.

In short, I don't care who is being discriminated against or for what reason, it is most certainly dehumanizing.

Ok, I spend much of my day reading into politics and stuff, and I am well aware that the NYT supported Hillary.

But, they have since changed their mind and asked her to drop out (yes, it was an editorial, but it was an official editorial). The NYT is very upset at her, thus they would most certainly write about how she *only won because WV is racist*.

Look Josh, you have ranted in these posts with a very consistant agenda. "You hate Obama" and are so blinded by it you have often left reason and facts by the wayside.

You say you knew the NYT was endorsing Hillary but still claimed they hated her? That's nonsense, it's just a spin put to facts so they seemed to be what you wanted to believe.

Now you state that they also printed an editorial that was diametrically opposed to their official editorial stance. If that's so then it's a good example of their willingness to report all sides of an issue.

I have not seen ANY article, on Plime or in the NYT that says she only won because WV is racist.

There is a post that puts forth some FACTS, gathered by interviewing the actual white voters there and prints the data about their STATED racial leanings.

Notice it says that the voters questioned were white. Therefore it makes no statement about the black voters. The fact that the blacks voted very largly for Obama, 81%, I think, speaks for itself really and it's obvious they were also guided by the race of the candidate.

You accept the black statistic readily but you argue the definition of white one by pointing out what the blacks did...as though that gave it some moral standing.

The "strangeness" I find in your posts is the hatred level you seem to have between Hillary and Obama. Both of the candidates have such similar platforms...both want to leave Iraq, both want medical care program, both want to reinstate some taxes etc etc. What possible reason can there be for so intense a dislike for one of two such similar candidates.

Why not stop making slanted guesses and check out some actual facts? Using your "most certainly" method of determing truth would put you in a rather bad light.
Fortunatly we won't do that.