babysister138's Blog

Dallas is out of control. All I know is that there is more racisnm in this city than any I have ever lived in. Our city council is a disgrace as is our school system administrators.

I think that the whole thing is a bunch of BS. Thats whats wrong with the world today is racism and grown [...] people acting they shoe size. We are suppose to be worried about the economy and polotics. Leave the damn name of the street the way that it is. Everybody needs to be EQUAL. WHAT PEOPLE ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE PEOPLE WITH DARK TANS OR BLACK PEOPLE.??

I know that I am getting so tired of the whole I am black and because you even said the word black you are a racists.. I am white and my husband is Hispanic and I have people treat me differently because I am white. Black people are not the only ones that have issues with racism. Get over it!!! Slavery has been gone for a long time. Stop making excuses to be sensitive.

Mr. Caraway you are the racist. Just what did you mean "my planning commissioner" I thought he was all of Dallas' planning commissioner. Here are a few words for you Mr. Caraway dark dark dark dark dark black black black. Black people have turned into such Nazis.

Major problem with the politicians of Dallas, always worrying about who is a racist, a bigot and who is not politically correct.

Some one should tell that City Counselman he was elected to take care of city business not whine and spend so much time worring about his feelings. I don't like being old,fat, and not so cute any more but hey that me. So he is black and dark lots of people are if he is honest and hardworking he could hold his head up high and take pride in who he is.

After reading all of the following comments, it was easy to assess that (from MuddywaterP to Irvingite) all or most of you guys are not African American and probably have no interest in understanding African American culture. It is utterly amazing to me that, from your own comments, we are being called Nazis and that we should "get over the fact that slavery is over". I wonder if any one of you would say the same thing to someone who was Jewish about the fact that the holocoaust was over with and they needed to "get over it". It's amazing to me how caucasians will do anything to keep from being viewed as being an anti-semite but have no problem displaying their prejudice disgust towards African Americans. By the way, before anyone of you try to make and argument that the holocaust has nothing to do with or is remotely similar to what African Americans have endured since slavery, then I suggest you camp out at your local library this weekend and do some serious research (black voting rights denied, random lenchings & hangings, little rock nine, civil rights act of 1964) so that you can understand a different ethnic culture other than your own. The only difference is that the holocaust was done in Germany (1939-1945) so it is easy to point the finger at another nation; but you forget that as you are pointing the finger at Germany, there are three disclosed fingers on that same hand pointing back at what America was doing to it's own citizens of color during, before, and after that same time. Also, before anyone decides to label me as being anti-semetic, let me inform you that

The irony of all this is that, in today's, we are so quick to use words that we have no true comprehension as to what they really mean. If you look up the word "racism" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, you see its true definition: (Racism - a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and those racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.) Now let's look at the word, prejudice: (Prejudice - a (1): preconceived judgment or opinion. (2): an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. b: an instance of such judgment or opinion. c: an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics.) The reason for displaying these two definitions is so that we can distinguish and understand the two words and us it in their proper context. Think about it, how can an African American be a "racist" in America when African Americans, throughout American history and with the constitution, have had to fight for equality up until now because our white counterparts were the "dominant majority" and we are considered "the minority". To give you an example, the reason why Black History Month is so important to us is because history books left out the significant contributions of black Americans and some never tell the whole story. Just like EVERYONE believes that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, but it was REALLY a black scientist named Lewis Latimer who invented the carbon filament in the bulb and the threaded wooden socket t

There will always be people sitting around picking out words that are considered "racist", these are the same sorts of people who show up at a car accident and declare the white car at fault if it is a black and a white car accident. Unless someone just comes out and out and out calls a person a racial slur... they need to stop trying to make every word in the vocabulary on offensive word. These sorts of people are only interested in one thing and that is showboating (oh can I say that?) they aren't interested in the business at hand, had they been paying more attention to the business vs. picking words- something productive may of been done.... BUT productivity isn't their main objective.

The problem, smokebrown, is that no one sees anything wrong with making white people twitchy - worried that we will say the wrong word. No one sees anything wrong with preaching "social gospel" as if it has any place in the Bible. No one sees anything wrong with the black nationalist movement. It is a double standard.

No sane person in my generation has discriminated based on race. No sane person in my generation would immediately discount a person due to something as shallow as their color. Yet we have people who make all white people out to be closet racists. It is annoying. It is ignorant. It is unfair to those of us who live our lives treating everyone fairly.

I know history. I know that my Irish family came over here as indentured servants (slaves who could become free by working off their debt). I know that people wouldn't hire the Irish. I know that the Chinese were enslaved and forced to work on the railroad. I know that women were denied the right to vote. I know that 9 times out of 10 when you hear someone crying "racist" unjustly, it is coming from an African American.

Come to 2008, the water's fine.