Thursday, October 26, 2006

How White People Can Reduce Racial Offense to blacks:

1)If a black person is being ignored in a store in favor of you, point out the black person. (This happened yesterday and my racial offense was decreased)

2)At Halloween, don't wear blackface, afro wigs, pimps and hoes outfits or any other nonsense

3)Don't follow blacks in stores. Usually it's white women stealing your shit.

4)Don't compare the time you got beat up in 8th grade to racism.

5)Don't blame your shortcomings on blacks. If you didn't get a scholarship, admit fault.

6)Don't use code words. We all know what you mean by inner city.

7)Don't use weird stereotypes. It's confusing to hear that blacks can't write because of their 'culture' when you've just checked out 15 black written books from the library.

8)Never hang a black person in effigy, or hang nooses from the ceiling. This causes racial offense.

9)Whether you think something is racist doesn't tell us anything about the actual racism in whatever it is. You have a vested interest in seeing nothing ever as racist.

10)Don't use the n word. Ever. Your freedom of speech has not been impacted by this. You CAN say it, it just causes racial offense.

A video about racial offense. This shows that young black children are able to identify racial offense.

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