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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
If only racism was that simple but it isn't personally i am more racist now then i was 10 years ago due to personal experience and i think most people have grey areas.
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There are a lot of grey areas, it is very rarely a black or white issue (ahem).
There are hard line nasty racist thugs that will beat up, even kill black or asian people (however young black kids seem to be adept at killing each other at the moment).
Then you get people, myself included, who don't consider themselves racist but would then laugh at a perceived racist joke.
Then you have to ask yourself is that in the same arena,
For example take this joke:
A black man walks into a pub with big red, yellow and green parrot on his shoulder.
"Bloody hell" says the barman "he's a beauty, where did you get him from."
The parrot replies "Africa, there's millions of the b****rds there.
Now, I heard Bernard Manning tell that joke on a television show were he roundly accused of telling racist and abusive jokes.
And just last month whilst I was India, our tour guide (who was Black not Indian) told it to us, he thought it was hilarious.
So it falls into the arena that if a black person tells a racist joke, it's not racist because he is parodying himself?? but if a white person tells the same joke then he is being racist as he has no right to parody a black person, not being black himself.
As has been discussed here racism is usually perceived on the basis that if the receiver of the act believes they have been the victim of an act of racism, then they have.
Which is again very subjective but probably the best way to gauge it at the moment, but it relies on the such persons not playing the race card at every conceivable opportunity.
There needs to be an amount of tolerance on all sides.