Racism

[2kitties]

Originally posted by mahayana
2Kitties- I am on your side in resenting the desparagement of Southerners that is all too common today. You grew up in the New South (you are the same age as my oldest son); I was a teenager during the '60s when it was against the law in 17 States for blacks and whites to attend the same schools.

Suffice to say that the history of white southerners and white northerners, and their dislike of each other, was the background of the fight over implementing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I could share lots of details and personal experiences from back then, but I'm not sure it helps. And I really do understand why you love North Carolina.

I understand your point completely. I think it is just a terrible legacy and I hope someday the entire country will be able to look past it- although I doubt that day will come in my lifetime.
Like PCB said, there are some really awful places where it still exists. In fact, there are some high schools who still have separate proms for the black and the whites. But, they also exist in the midwest. Although CNN only reports on the ones in Georgia. Jews are still stereotyped in NYC, Mormons in Utah, hispanics in Texas and Florida.
I think I was just amazed that when we moved to WI, even one of the realtors we met with said "and you don't have to worry about any colored in this neighborhood". I couldn't even believe it and she said it without hesitation! We didn't buy from her. I'd never experienced anything like that in NC. I don't deny the south still has remnants of what most of us find embarrassing, but I honestly believe the majority of us are kind, educated, open minded people who are not the gun-totin' rednecks we're imagined.

[ILoveReptiles]

What about equal opportunity hatred?

I don't hate you because of your skin color - I hate you because you were BORN!

PEOPLE SUCK!

Honestly though - your friend is a narrowminded fool - no offense.

[Tonya]

Originally posted by ILoveReptiles
What about equal opportunity hatred?

I don't hate you because of your skin color - I hate you because you were BORN!

PEOPLE SUCK!

Honestly though - your friend is a narrowminded fool - no offense.

She's not my friend! That's Mike's friend's wife. lol.

[mahayana]

Racism and prejudice, the idea that anyone not belonging to your group is inferior, is common everywhere.

Sexism is the form of prejudice that affects the most people, Nationalism a close second.

This thread has made me think about racism in America, how my own views were formed. One book I'd reccommend is "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

[ILoveReptiles]

Originally posted by Tonya
She's not my friend! That's Mike's friend's wife. lol.

Oops! Sorry - didn't mean to insult you by calling her your friend! haha

[RICHARD]

one more time for my stupid joke...


I love Racism...

I am a HUGE NASCAR fan....



Go Mark Martin!!

[Pam]

Originally posted by RICHARD
one more time for my stupid joke...


I love Racism...

I am a HUGE NASCAR fan....



Go Mark Martin!!

Oh Richard! I prefer Jeff Gordon myself and my son is a HUGE Bobby Labonte fan! LOL

[mahayana]

So is NASCAR integrated? I was trying to think of a black driver...there must be someone.

[tikeyas_mom]

i cant stand racists .. they make me soo sad for them.. they are so low.. My dad is one of them too .. my dad will make fun of ppl that are not white it makes me soo mad .. I get totally fumed and so does my mom we always get into huge fights with him about it. He thinks it is all a big joke. But it isnt.. .. It is really sad.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by mahayana
So is NASCAR integrated? I was trying to think of a black driver...there must be someone.

actually there is no current black driver in Nascar.

there are pit crew member that are black but no driver in
Nascar or Busch that I can think of...

Willy T Ribbs, a black driver, did try to field a team a few years back...

In an interesting interview Richard Petty said because of a traffic ticket Ribbs once got that he would not be able to cut it as a driver....I'll look for his comments, It was rather stupid and very telling comment.

[trayi52]

*Always remember others may hate you
but those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them.
And then you destroy yourself.*

This came in my e-mail. Makes a lot of sense to me.

[RICHARD]

Petty Stumps For TBS' NASCAR Coverage...

Recently, AQB noticed famed driver Richard Petty pumping TBS' Memorial Day weekend races, the Carquest Auto Parts 300 and the Coca-Cola 600.

When we last saw Petty, he was with Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel reporter Derek McGinty, being interviewed for a segment on the HBO show about the lack of blacks in NASCAR.

It's stretching things to charge that Petty is a bigot - a few clips of an interview aren't enough to substantiate such serious charges - but he certainly didn't come off as sympathetic to the plight of black drivers.

AQB spoke Thursday with Turner spokesman Greg Hughes, who said "We use him as part of our program because he's a racing legend. Richard Petty's name is synonymous with NASCAR.

"Obviously we don't condone any negative attitude towards blacks or any minority groups. (The Real Sports piece) never entered into our consideration of Richard Petty," said Hughes, who added that Petty was hired before the program aired.

Just as it isn't fair to brand Petty a bigot on the basis of HBO's story, we certainly wouldn't indict Turner Sports for a series of promos that last a few seconds. TBS and TNT have a solid record of hiring minority broadcasting talent such as Kenny Smith, Glenn "Doc" Rivers and ex-football analyst Mark May. It's just hard to look at Petty in the same light after his appearance on Real Sports.

Below are Petty's comments from the HBO show:

On tough times endured by Scott, whose victory at the 1963 Jacksonville 100 remains the only by a black driver:

"He wasn't the only one that was having a hard time. As far as the other things that he run into, no, I had no idea what was going on there.

"I grew up in a neighborhood that was a white neighborhood and colored people lived right down the road. So, I never thought anything about it until I went away from my little community and then I seen things were different."

On the phrase "colored people," which McGinty notes is not a racial slur but a reminder of times past:

"I grew up in the '50s and minorities, or whatever you want to say, were colored people and they accepted that - that's the way it was."

On Ribbs, who was fined $27 in 1978 for driving backwards on a Memphis street, an event which occurred before he tried his hand at NASCAR:

"Willy T. came down here and tried to run a race or two and got hisself in trouble with the law and they kicked him out of the car.

"Everybody said 'Hey, if he cannot control hisself then we don't want him on the racetrack.' None of the white boys run into this kind of stuff. In Willy's case, the spotlight was more on him and he would have had to walk the line even more than a white person. But he didn't and he's not here."


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lololololol..

the guy was probably backing out of a driveway and the local 'good old boys' didn't want to see anyone get hurt...

no, it's probably not fair to brand him a bigot on a few comments.

But I do brand him perrty ignirant and not too brite.....he shur could drive the wheels off a car but sure ain't a gud spokesperson for NASCAR..