Do you know any racists? I do, at least two. They are both seniors. One of them refers to the tennis playing Williams sisters as the gorilla girls.

Yes. My in-laws. And there are a lot down here.

My sister in law. She called black people "colored people" at Thanksgiving. Also, my mom was racist. She spouted a lot of outdated stereotypical nonsense on just about every race.

Watch out Clang, calling people "black" will be racist in another 5 yrs.

Technically, gorilla girls is not a racist term. It's a racially insensitive term, but she could just think the sistas look like gorillas. If she says "I'm glad no matter how good those gorilla girls are at tennis, they'll never win the prize of being white," then she's definitely racist.

To be fair they do look like gorillas.

My grandma was racist. She'd put me in the bath when I was a little kid and call the dirt between my toes nigger babies. Another time we were waiting on which elevator would open first and she whispered to me eenie meenie miney mo catch a nigger by the toe and started laughing. Then when she had alzheimers she was really racist. My grandpa was in the hospital and I couldn't leave her alone so I hired a black lady who was recommended by someone to babysit her. I told her that the lady is a friend of grandpa's and is going to stay with you for a while. She says right in front of the lady "Wallace would never leave me alone with a jiggaboo". I was rather embarrassed and a little scared for her safety with the old black woman after that comment.

MS is pretty damn close.

I had a friend around the time Obama was first running for election. Our friendship pretty much ended during one 4 hour drive to a girl's weekend. She's a dyed-in-the-wool Republican but THAT I could live with. But she called Obama all kinds of racial slurs (for no justifiable reason at the time) and her thoughts about "spics" and the whole illegal immigration issue made Trump look warm and welcoming. By the end of the drive, we were barely talking (I shut up to avoid going all freaky on her).

People are so stupid where illegal immigrants are concerned. Like it or not, they're a big part of our economy. An evil necessity, if you will. I'm not saying throw the doors open but it's ignorant to think we can/should deport every last one. We need a few..to clean my house, wash my car and mow my lawn and stuff. We need agriculture pickers that can't unionize or otherwise demand minimum wages or $12/hr or whatever it is McDonald's employees think they deserve.

Come to think of it, I'm sure my former friend, quite hypocritically, employed a few herself.

(07-13-2015, 04:25 PM)sally Wrote: My grandma was racist. She'd put me in the bath when I was a little kid and call the dirt between my toes nigger babies.

That's what mom would call Tootsie rolls.

A lot of the horse farms & tree farms around here have Mexican workers. I've seen them in action, they are responsible & hard working. I know someone who won't rent to them though but only because they cram like 15 people into a house that's made for a family of four. I don't have anything negative to say about them.

(07-13-2015, 01:51 PM)Cutz Wrote: Technically, gorilla girls is not a racist term. It's a racially insensitive term, but she could just think the sistas look like gorillas. If she says "I'm glad no matter how good those gorilla girls are at tennis, they'll never win the prize of being white," then she's definitely racist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yh7TVDXH8Y

My parents. were. To the point where when I was out with my mom, I said hello in passing to a black classmate. My mom totally went ballistic..what if people think you are dating, shit like that. When I got my degree in Social Work (after my mom died) my dad asked if there was a way I could arrainge it that I would never have to have "niggers and fags" as clients. I just ignored him.

(07-13-2015, 12:29 PM)Duchess Wrote:

Do you know any racists? I do, at least two. They are both seniors. One of them refers to the tennis playing Williams sisters as the gorilla girls.

Everybody is to some degree.

Not me. I judge people by their actions, not their race. I don't think I'm better than anyone unless you're acting like a piece of shit scumbag, then I'll call you whatever degrading name happens to fit your race. Except for white people, I have other names for them. A white person calling another white person a "stupid white cracker bitch" just doesn't seem to work.

I know/knew several racists, two of whom were my parents. Therefore, I was raised a racist.
However, as I became unto myself as a grownup, over the years, I started to see how wrong they were. And I judged people as people for who they were, and by what they did, not by their race.
Every "race" white, black, yellow, brown, red, has it's share of misfits (SOB fucks)


I worked for four decades with all different races during my working career, and found undesirable people in all the races. Some of the worst people I ever worked with were white, I despised them, does that make me a racist?
Today (and for many years now) I am no longer a racist, I despise everybody the same, their race does not enter the equation!
Conversely, I love everybody the same, their race does not enter the equation.

That's a great post, Cars.

If only everyone could see the person and not their color.

(07-13-2015, 08:10 PM)Duchess Wrote:

That's a great post, Cars.

If only everyone could see the person and not their color.

indeed. All these years later, I'm still a bit ashamed that in 5^th grade I called a black classmate "raisin".

Eh, we're all gonna be racist at one thing or another when a mind reading machine is invented.

They had a prototype but Maggot broke it.

(07-13-2015, 09:29 PM)Maggot Wrote: Eh, we're all gonna be racist at one thing or another when a mind reading machine is invented.

Yup.

Ethic slurs were never used in our home.

Race was a non-issue . . .

I remember (about 15 years ago) I labeled someone as a nigger, in front of my Mum.

I thought she was going to slap me.

I knew from that moment she secretly wanted black dick.