Wow, so many heated posts...
Well guys, first of all... I agree with BDC (don't shoot yet; agreeing only to certain points). Not dating someone of a certain race IS racist by definition... HOWEVER, very few people are actually racist in that way (believe me, if Will Smith goes after some white girl, he will most likely get her; the same thing for if Brad Pitts goes after the so-called "white whores").
BDC's language does raise questions of suppressed anger; just cause someone won't date you, and they "seemingly" only date black guys DOES NOT MAKE HER A WHORE ! I can assure you, she's not above biology... meaning if a "white" guy who's gentle, smart, good-looking and nice goes after her, she will go for it. Of course, unless you are referring to a certain type of teenage rebellion-stage girls. There's a group of girls in High School (usually), who seem to think that black guys are cool, thugish... or whatnot. I know people who went to school like that (there weren't that many blacks in my school, so I didn't have that experience, but I guess it "could" be kind of bad). That's the media hype they buy into (don't you guys remember doing things like that as a kid?). It's perfectly normal. Now that I am in university, I realized that girls don't go for black guys anymore. Sometimes if someone's preferring one race over another (for no reason), chances are... they are ignorant (disclaimer: not saying liking black is ignorance... I am saying ONLY dating a certain race is ignorance).
Yes, some of you think that it's a matter of taste. Let's say this girl who likes darker men with a heavier build who wears excessive jewelry (I am using stereotypes, sorry...), so she prefer blacks. Why would she NOT date a white thug (well-tanned) who have the same taste in jewelry (If she wouldn't, then she's a racist; because she has no reason OTHER than the race)? Let's say this girl love italians... Would she love another dark featured light-skinned person (with italian-esque features)? If not, then again... she's racist.
One things I find is that: there's a tendency for reversed racism now. Races that usually perform well in society are being "neglected" while races that usually perform badly in our social setting are getting a leg-up. The number of Jews in my science classes are rivaled only by the Chinese... Lots of Jews are professionals or business owners, so what if a few girl got hyped up on the "tough Black thug" image? I still say Jews have it a lot easier than latinos and blacks in this country (and the US). I won't worry about it. This is also why racism toward blacks are WORSE than racism toward whites; because blacks had suffered in the past (one of my friends sat me down and had this talk with me after I went AWOL due to the affirmative action thingy that left my half-chinese cousin out of the best school in NYC). I mean, what's the worst racial insult ever thrown at non-blacks? (yes, i understand that slightly worse comments might be made against immigrants, jews, russians, italians, chinese... etc; but none of these people have suffered as much as the blacks, except the jews during ww2) You can't dance? have a smaller cock? Like Mayo on sandwiches? Come on, it's really not that big a deal, suck it up, princess. However, that being said... The GOVERNMENT should not have affirmative action laws that try to even the field; because the government need to be fair and "blind".
EDIT: Word Combo like "White Whore", "Our women"... tend to sound very racist... avoid ! Just because someone is the same race as you, it DOESN'T mean she belong to you. She might not give a rat's ass about you or how you think. Stop forcing relations on others ! Just cause you're jewish, it doesn't mean you own all the jews and know how they think. She might feel like YOU are the "outsider" because you aren't her friend; she might also feel like a black guy is part of her most inner circle because they grew up together. It's so weird (yet interesting, in terms of tryng to understand it) how some people "lay claim" on others because they happened to from the same country.
"I find it a bit ironic for anyone to be attacking anyone else's comments as racist within the narrow contours of this thread." -- EB
Yes, we should expect it... but no, it is not ironic that we attacking racist comments (You expect murderers at murder trials; yet it doesn't make them anymore likable). To clarify, in a perfect world, this discussion would've been something like "OMG, racism today... wtf? That's WRONG ! Let's hug and sing a song". This is not a perfect world, however, it doesn't mean we have to ignore the little imperfections.
Where's the light switch?
