>Well, then you tell me how
>I am currently oppressing anyone,
>I would be glad to
>stop.

Oppression is an institutional thing. You may not be oppressing anyone at this moment or at all, but as long as others like you (and me) oppress and nothing is done, we are guilty of it. "It takes a village, to raise institutional racism."

And PLEASE don't bring the Irish indentured servitude thing into it. There is no comparision to be made there. That argument is equivalent to the "Africans had slaves too" argument. Irish are still "White". How can you distinguish an Irish person that can do an English accent from an English person? You can't.

Once again, what
>I am saying is that
>there is no reason for
>this. If you want
>to address the issues with
>racist whites, then you should
>refer to them as racist
>whites, crackers, or rednecks.
>There is a difference, you
>shouldn't group all kinds of
>white people into one big
>category.

Racial profiling sucks.

>I don't think
>oppression is a historical thing
>(and I'm not a dumb
>cracker) as much as it
>is an ongoing thing, but
>I think that is an
>issue that needs to be
>addressed without making it a
>color issue (there are plenty
>of disadvantaged hispanics and other
>races as well, and even
>some whites).

There are more (finacially) disadvantaged whites in the U.S. This is based on the fact that there are a lot of White people out there. But the fact that you say "even some whites" is part of the issue. But this is a whole class thing that I don't want to get into.

>Here's the
>deal, everyone on here seems
>pretty intelligent, but what about
>the people who might just
>glance at it and think
>that you guys are white-hating,
>militant seperatists based on some
>post like this.

"I love you, you love me, we're a happy family..."


>Think
>about people you see on
>the street everyday and their
>intelligence level. So at
>that point, you are giving
>someone with a lower intelligence
>level a reason to hate
>a whole race as a
>defensive factor.

So, maybe ?uestLove should censor posts before they are released to the public.

Anything said on this site is not giving anyone their values or opinions. Unless there's 2 year olds reading this board all others have already formed their opinions. They can either listening to real discussion or re-enforce whatever they want.

> I have
>seen this happen before.
>You can either educate these
>people in the right way
>by addressing real issues or
>instil in them a fear
>of black people and hip
>hop.

There parents did that long before they met you. {And just between you and me...a lot of this hip-hop out here today is scary, how do these cats get signed?}