Someone sent this email to me. I found it incredibly offensive. So I decided to add my two cents.
My responses are in brackets.
PROUD TO BE WHITE... Kramer's defense speech in court
(Ok first of his name is Michael Richards. Kramer is a fictitious character. Secondly this is an email that's been circling around the internet for years. What Richards did wasn't illegal, just stupid.)
Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying
attention to this?
(What on earth do you mean by finally... Rednecks have been spouting this nonsense for decades.)
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian
Americans, Arab Americans, etc. And then there are just Americans.
(The distinction is made as a sign of respect for minorities that have been historically marginalized by whites.)
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You Call
me "White boy," "Cracker," "Honkey," "Whitey," "Caveman" ... and that's OK.
(A Canadian sent this too me. How many minorities have you met that have called you a cracker, or Honkey? In my 36 years of life it's never happened to me once. I've heard lots and lots of white people spout racist nonsense however. If I had a nickel for every time I heard the word "Nigger" or "Chug" or "Kike" said by a white person, I'd be a very very very wealthy man.)
But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger,
Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink ..You call me a racist.
(I would hope that in this civilized society of ours, that you would just naturally refrain from using racial slurs. Besides all those terms are horrific. In order to get respect, one must give it too. Reciprocity is the nature of all things.)
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so
why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
(Hmmm... Historically Whites have been vicious towards non whites. Here's a list: 1) The Holocaust, 2) Slavery, 3) The Current war in Iraq, 4) The occupations of Nicaragua, and Panama, 5) Apartheid in South Africa, and The American south for that matter. 6) Colonialism - The occupation of India, and the majority of Africa by white european powers. We have an awful lot to answer for.
As for the ghettos. We made them. White city councils issue permits for liquor and fire arm sales. Ever wonder why there are so many liquor stores and gun shops in the hood? We make it easy for blacks to bump each other off so we don't have to.
One need only look at Katrina to see exactly what America thinks of it's African American Citizens.)
You have the United Negro College Fund. (An organization designed to help blacks who have been marginalized by expensive and traditionally white schools.)
You have Martin Luther King Day.
(What's wrong with celebrating the life of a man who believed in racial harmony and equality? HE JUST HAPPENED TO BE BLACK.)
You have Black History Month.
(Good we have 11 months of the year...)
You have Caesar Chavez Day.
(He stood up to white's treating hispanics like lesser beings.)
You have Yom Hashoah.
(What could the Jews be wanting to protect and support? Lord knows they've never had any problems with white people...Except for that crazy Holocaust, or 2000 other years of white people's hate mongering...)
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.
(Nothing bad is happening to Arabs these days?)
You have the NAACP.
(Advancement for blacks? What's wrong with that? Given that there has never been a black president of the United States, or a black Prime Minister of Canada / UK... And how many fortune 500 companies are run by blacks?)
You have BET.
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we'd be
racists.
(I believe it's call FOX NEWS! And it is racist!)
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
(WHY ON EARTH WOULD WE EVEN NEED IT. WE AS A CULTURE HAVE NEVER EVER BEEN MARGINALIZED! White folks run the world. We have every advantage there is. We even got to make up the rules.)
If we had White History Month , we'd be racists. (Most of the modern history we learn in school is about whites. I'd say one month out of the year is actually short changing Blacks.)
If we had any organization for only whites to "advance" OUR
lives
We'd be racists.
(Except for that first 200 years or so... Ever met a black "Knight of Columbus, or Free Mason? I bet you haven't!)
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?
(Nope... And I couldn't care less...)
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant,
but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
(Who really cares? Pageants are dumb anyway! Just as JonBenet Ramsey!)
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships you know we'd be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US. Yet if there were "White colleges" THAT would be a racist college.
(At one point in America there were hundreds of Colleges that were White's only. And for a remarkable amount of time they were MEN only too. White MEN!)
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching
for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.
(Nazi Germany did a lot of that "Million man March thing. It didn't go over well...)
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
(Who the fuck is orange? Most of the time it's the Aryan Nations and Ku KLUX KLAN members screaming that stuff out loud. The Nazis did that too. Another thing that didn't go to well for them...)
You rob us, car-jack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.
(White people never commit crimes? White people never shoot one another? This is utter nonsense. Given that Blacks out number whites 10 - 1 in American Prisons, and that Blacks are statistically more likely to be convicted for a crime, I'd being willing to say with some certainty that the system is racist.)
I am proud. But you call me a racist.
(I'm proud of my culture, but I don't even see colour any more.)
Why is it that only whites can be racists?
(Anyone can be racist. We just happen to be good at it.)
There is nothing improper about this e-mail. Let's see which
of you are proud enough to send it on.
(This email is a sad commentary on a world gone horribly awry. I hope there's a flood one day.)
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