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Re: Color Line Cuts Through the Heart (Score: 1)
by Seraphfire on Friday, July 28 @ 02:38:54 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | What you say is a very good example of the patronizing attitude of conservative whites towards minorities. Sorry, you may have had good intentions but that's just a regurgitation of the crap they say to justify there is no racism in America, individual achievement will overcome all barriers!
Please...
Why is there a barrier in the first place for minorities? Why do we need to justify ourselves?
What you say is not AA empowerment, its individual empowerment. You know most people who have minority friends still hold racist beliefs and stereotypes about their friend's race? How you say? Well, it's easy for them, they conveniently believe those minority friends are the EXCEPTION to the stereotype so the racism still persists. So what you say will only make you the EXCEPTION, it does crap for AA empowerment.
And you confuse Asian vs. Asian American. Asian Americans need an identity unique to us and apart from white American or native Asian culture like black and Hispanic Americans have. We don't need to reinforce the perpetual foreigner syndrome.
AA empowerment is forcing change on a group not individual level. Assimilation is not power. We'll need to forge our own path thank you. |
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Re: Color Line Cuts Through the Heart (Score: 1)
by sylphhead on Monday, February 05 @ 05:56:43 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | My sympathies are with seraphfire on this. Frank Chin is right - Black Americans are the model minority. I see so many Asian American youth taking cheap shots at their own race to better fit in with white peers, whom they simply worship. It sickens me.
I think the problem here, curiousgeorge, is that you're defining 'individuality' so broadly as to border on tautology. Any individual action demonstrates individuality. Horatio Alger demonstrates individuality. A communist revolutionary demonstrates individuality. Getting up from this laptop to get a cup of coffee demonstrates individuality. A difference has to be made between an individualist [b]philosophy[/b] versus a collective one. And here, that the most undeniably racist and malicious folk have always advocated the former for their pet ethnicity of hate should tell you enough in itself. Conservative whites as a group know damn well collective action is more effective, which is why they don't individually rise to the occasion but fund large media groups and join party networks to push the issues they care about.
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Re: Color Line Cuts Through the Heart (Score: 1)
by KHANartist on Monday, March 26 @ 11:17:08 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | East Asian women should have the same rights that other women do to choose their partners for whatever reason they see fit. I`ve heard every excuse why some men feel they should have the special privilege to interfere in the private lives of women, but it still comes down to a wounded ego and a false sense of entitlement on the men`s part.
If any man really wants to alienate women then just keep interfering in women`s personal lives like seraphfire does. |
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