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post #1 of 43
7/28/07 at 10:05am
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Why is race such a big issue? Maybe I was just raised to believe that people are people, no matter what color they are. It shouldn't matter especially since they love each other......

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3422740&page=1

Maybe I'm just young and naive.....
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post #2 of 43
7/28/07 at 10:23am
What a shame. 21st century, anyone?
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post #3 of 43
7/28/07 at 10:33am
That is so pathetic. Do people not realize how stupid they are. It is a SKIN COLOR for crying out loud.
We have made great strides but we still aren't there.
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post #4 of 43
7/28/07 at 10:42am
Why are all racists cowardly? Why do they hide under white hats and send hatemail and phone messages?

I doubt that the couple is in any real danger but what a damper and a dark cloud that would put over your wedding day...Let's hope they can enjoy it.
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post #5 of 43
7/28/07 at 11:03am
I hope they hunt down those cowards. That is hate speech pure and simple.
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post #6 of 43
7/28/07 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by Loveysmummy View Post
Why are all racists cowardly? Why do they hide under white hats and send hatemail and phone messages?

I doubt that the couple is in any real danger but what a damper and a dark cloud that would put over your wedding day...Let's hope they can enjoy it.
I didn't read the article, however in NZ they don't hide under pillowcases (white hats) they do it in plain sight.

My ex was also Japanese and I was meeting up with her one day and she was bawling her eyes out I asked what was wrong. A few minutes before I got there she had been egged. I tell you, if I had been there and this happened, the little er would have been beaten within an inch of his life. This racist nonsense p*sses me right off.

When I was young I was raised with the whole neo nazi crap, but whilst I was young and still impressionable, I ended up talking to coloured people and found them to be very nice. I was able to make y own decision in life and make friends with people of all races. I of course got a lot of hidings for it but hey these people are just clueless.
I don't think any of the people I knew who were racist had even spoke to a person of different race or colour, they were just brainwashed with this crap and were too scared to try and change.

There is absolutely no difference between white or coloured people, we all have same interests, have sense of humours and so on.

I just can't stand this white supremacist crap at all.
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post #7 of 43
7/28/07 at 11:14am
That is sad, but that is just the way that some people are, they are just ignorant.
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post #8 of 43
7/28/07 at 7:12pm
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Originally Posted by DIEGO View Post
There is absolutely no difference between white or coloured people, we all have same interests, have sense of humours and so on.

I just can't stand this white supremacist crap at all.
I agree, but where I am at, it is not all white people doing. I feel like I am discriminated against by colored people sometimes. Sometimes you automatically get the attitude for no reason...I don't care for the attitude, I could care less of the color.
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post #9 of 43
7/28/07 at 8:28pm
I had a feeling what the story was about before I clicked on the link and I agree. It's pretty sad and pathetic that there are people out there who are so shallow and narrow minded in their thinking. Ignorance at it's finest, or worst, however you want to phrase it. What makes it even sadder is that people like this breed and pass this backward thinking onto their children.

Best wishes to those two kids.
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post #10 of 43
7/28/07 at 8:51pm
As much as it is the 21st century, unfortunately many people still think that people with different colored skin should not marry or be together. Unfortunately those people probably watch the news more then they leave their house.

I agree with Samantha, most likely the racism is coming from both sides, black as well as white.

I do feel bad though, these are two happy people and because they shared their moment on TV with the whole U.S. there have to be a couple of spoiled eggs. Hopefully nothing happens on their wedding day.
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post #11 of 43
7/29/07 at 3:00am
Nope, I don't get it either - they are cute and happy and love each other - who cares what colour their skin is?!?!?! Underneath the skin we're all just flesh and bones.......................
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post #12 of 43
7/29/07 at 7:38am
I agree, all of this because of skin color. If the people don't agree that's one thing, they have the choice of not dating someone that's a different color. So stupid!!!
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post #13 of 43
7/29/07 at 7:59am
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Well they got married yesterday despite all those threats

http://sports.aol.com/ncaafb/story/_...28232909990001

Love conquers all again! Look how happy they are!
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post #14 of 43
7/29/07 at 8:00am
If the article hadn't explained what people were mad about it never would have dawned on me. I mean... who cares?

Sadly there are plenty of people who think other people's relationships, and what they do in them, and who they are with, are their business.
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post #15 of 43
7/29/07 at 9:07am
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Originally Posted by Oscarsmommy View Post
Well they got married yesterday despite all those threats

http://sports.aol.com/ncaafb/story/_...28232909990001

Love conquers all again! Look how happy they are!
OMG look how cute she is!

It would never occur to me that someone would have a problem with that. You can just feel how happy they are.
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post #16 of 43
7/29/07 at 9:32am
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Originally Posted by lookingglass View Post
You can just feel how happy they are.
You can! What is the big deal? They are adorable.

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Originally Posted by lookingglass View Post

It would never occur to me that someone would have a problem with that. .
I agree, I bet those same people who have a problem with that loving husband/wife relationship wouldn't have a problem with a man abusing his wife, as long as they were the same race. So stupid!!!

There is way more that matters and is important in a relationship than shades of skin.
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post #17 of 43
7/29/07 at 10:19am
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Originally Posted by DIEGO View Post
I ended up talking to coloured people and found them to be very nice. .
Not trying to be a politically correct PITA but isn't the term "coloured" considered derogatory by the black community?
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post #18 of 43
7/29/07 at 10:38am
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Originally Posted by Loveysmummy View Post
Not trying to be a politically correct PITA but isn't the term "coloured" considered derogatory by the black community?
Definitely here-- I'm assuming things are different in New Zealand?

It's hard to say, for instance, someone in North America (maybe elsewhere) should know how offensive it is, but Samantha used it too. But at the same time there is a small movement towards saying 'people of color' or 'women of color' etc... either way the intent in using a word is more important and I don't think Diego intended it to be offensive.
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post #19 of 43
7/29/07 at 10:44am
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Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom View Post
Definitely here-- I'm assuming things are different in New Zealand?

It's hard to say, for instance, someone in North America (maybe elsewhere) should know how offensive it is, but Samantha used it too. But at the same time there is a small movement towards saying 'people of color' or 'women of color' etc... either way the intent in using a word is more important and I don't think Diego intended it to be offensive.
I agree, it was not meant to be offensive. "People of color" is the most accepted term here. Behavior and intent is often more important than the wording, though

Good for this young couple to go on with their wedding and happy life together. They look so happy!
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post #20 of 43
7/29/07 at 11:33am
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Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom View Post
Definitely here-- I'm assuming things are different in New Zealand?

It's hard to say, for instance, someone in North America (maybe elsewhere) should know how offensive it is, but Samantha used it too. But at the same time there is a small movement towards saying 'people of color' or 'women of color' etc... either way the intent in using a word is more important and I don't think Diego intended it to be offensive.
Oh absolutely..I didn't think it was intended offensively (that's why I prefaced with the politically correct bit )

However, my understanding (among friends anyway) is that just because a word isn't meant offensively, it should still be acknowledged as an offensive term and not used.
(again, I am in no way directing this towards the posters who used the term)

I am aware of the term "people of colour" but this encompasses every non-white community. It's just that I haven't heard the term "coloured" since I last read a Steinbeck novel or perhaps on the playground in elementary school!

I didn't realize that the term may still be used in other countries/continents.

On the same note, I heard a black comedian once talking about the term "coloured" and he was questioning why when white people get "red in the face with rage" or "turn green with illness" or "get pink when they blush" that THEY aren't the ones who are deemed "coloured"..
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post #21 of 43
7/29/07 at 3:19pm
Isn't white a color?
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post #22 of 43
7/29/07 at 3:30pm
Technically, white is the absence of color. Nobody has true white skin.

Someday, people will get past appearances. It's happening even now. My daughter and her friends think nothing of skin color any more than they do of hair or eye color. They have preferences, of course, she likes dark hair and thinks dark skin is the most beautiful.
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post #23 of 43
7/29/07 at 5:46pm
I always feel happy when I see inter-racial couples. To me, that's the way of the future and the probably the only way we'll ever learn to get along - if all enthicities married and mixed so much that thinking about race and colour would be completely irrelevant.
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post #24 of 43
7/29/07 at 7:44pm
I don't think that being color blind is necessarily the best way to be... to me that is to some degree a denial of cultural differences. We should simply not view any culture or ethnicity as superior or inferior, without forcing anyone to assimilate. This would include being able to date whoever you want, someone just like you or someone very different, without judgement from people who have no business caring.

I am not a melting-pot advocate, I think part of what is valuable to American culture is that is really almost a plural cultures. For everyone to become blind to our differences, everyone would have to become part of one and the same culture, and it would almost have to be the dominant, white culture-- which most minorities show some degree of resistance to doing and I don't blame them.
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post #25 of 43
7/29/07 at 9:20pm
wel that type of stuff is not just here, we tend to hide it, and some of us get pissed when this type of thing pops up.

however, similar to another story here, Itta been treated alike a hooker cause she was with a white guy in her country. People just assumed she was.
One of itta best who is very cute, is often called to black, and at times had a hard time finding dates.Was treated different in jobs cause she was darker.

Its been years since i was in japan, but i do remember seeing signs, that said, no forgianer allowed.

saying stuff like its 2007 is not really helpful as its never stopped.

now on the other hand i hvae worked in place during college, where black guys would tell white women that if they would not go out with them they where being racist.

Maybe someday we will get past the whole race thing, but really doubt it.
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post #26 of 43
7/30/07 at 9:42am
as a current and past member of an inter-racial couple, i can tell you that the stares of the unaccepting are not hard to find I, fortunately, usually walk around in my own little world and do not notice that much but hate and ignorance are very much alive. I have been very fortunate not to have received a verbal assault, but some of my friends have not been so lucky.

As far as colored, black, african-american etc etc. most of my friends refer to themselves as "black" the same way that I refer to myself as "white"
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post #27 of 43
7/30/07 at 12:31pm
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
Technically, white is the absence of color.
I could be wrong, but I thought black was the absence of colour and white was a combination of all the prime colours.

Anyway, back on track - I hope they live a long and happy life together.

I also have seen instances of the black prejudice against whites. When I was younger the most prejudicial and nasty remarks were often from black females against white females if the white female was dating a black man. Prejudice does indeed come from both sides.
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post #28 of 43
7/30/07 at 12:35pm
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Originally Posted by Yosemite View Post
I could be wrong, but I thought black was the absence of colour and white was a combination of all the prime colours.
I want to add to the fray! Black absorbs the entire spectrum, white relfects the entire spectrum... and they're both called achromatic.

I've never met anyone whose skin was actually either color.
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post #29 of 43
7/30/07 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by Yosemite View Post
I could be wrong, but I thought black was the absence of colour and white was a combination of all the prime colours.
We could get really crazy and go into how color is really the reflection of light, so your green grass is really blue and red (blue and red reflect green). So then technically all the white people are black and all the black people are white.

OK anyway, enough digging through memory from stuff I learned 10 years ago.

I'm glad to see that nothing bad happened on their wedding day. My what a cute couple they make!
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post #30 of 43
7/30/07 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom View Post
I want to add to the fray! Black absorbs the entire spectrum, white relfects the entire spectrum... and they're both called achromatic.

I've never met anyone whose skin was actually either color.
Neither have I! Myself, I'm somewhere between "chestnut" and "peach"
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