woodguru

I've said before I was raised by a guy that I consider to be about as r****t as it gets, that said he wasn't nearly as bad as his father, and neither of them are as bad as some of the Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky country boys I was friends with in the military.I knew two guys that attacked any black guys they saw with a white woman, literally jumped and attacked them. Then there were the ones who didn't get physical, but they certainly had things to say to black guys and the white women they were going out with.

I think most people can have different degrees of opinions, feelings, and emotions about people of certain races and they pretty much keep it to themselves. In fact up until Obama was elected it was pretty low key, that brought a degree out. That degree escalated to a different level to where people started feeling like it was okay to get in a mexican or middle eastern person's face and tell them it's time to go home. It has ramped up into a more open thing.

Is there any r****m in a person comes down to some degrees...
...would you hire a black person or a mexican in different situations?
...for general handy work will you pay a white person more than a mexican, people differentiate without realizing they're doing it.
...would you have an initial reaction to a daughter dating a black guy?

And something I think is funny, the worst r****ts I've known deny it, and their favorite defense is that they have a friend that is black. Two of my neighbors that are pretty bad say they aren't r****t, they just h**e b****s...and they are dead serious.

ImLogicallyRight

Woody, there are many different levels of r****m and it is a normal part on everyone's nature. That is normal. It is the extent of r****t feelings, whether they are favorable for your own kind or negative against those that are different. That is where the issues arise.

I won't go after your whole post at this time. But I will comment on one statement. "would you have an initial reaction to a daughter dating a black guy?" The answer is yes. But not why you think. I would be curious as to how they met and who he dated in the past. I've hung around bars for over 55 years. I've seen a lot. Every bar as far back as I can remember had its token black. Maybe more. Usually personable guys who got along with everyone. Great except that they were blatantly r****t. They were there to score a white woman, no matter what she looked like, as long as she was white. A new girl would walk in and before she could buy a drink they would be taking turns hitting on her. Some women wanted a black man so she could prove she was liberal, or just preferred them. Others felt put upon by this stream of b****s taking turns on her. They would finish their drinks and leave, never to return. Destroyed a lot of bars that used to be fun. So, would I have issues with my daughter dating a black man. If it was one of these types who only go after white women, yes. I wouldn't want my daughter used for cheap sex and as a black man's trophy to dangle in front of other white men. If they just happened to meet and he wasn't one of these predators, but just someone who happened to meet my daughter and they got along and started dating, no problem.

Does that answer your question?

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Do you deny that you're a r****t?