I Know How I Look To The World & How It Looks To Me

That's a huge advantage.

If you're black, you're outnumbered - that's a given - so add an "s" to the word "friend" and this can apply to you as well:

  7 Things Your Colorblind Racist Friend Might Say to You and How to Respond 

You don't say?

Let's see an example:

Reverse Racism 

What they say: “Blacks cry ‘racism’ for everything, even though they are more or just as racist as white people.” 

Response: 

Let’s first define racism with this formula: Racism = racial prejudice + systemic institutional power. 

To say people of color can be racist, denies the power imbalance inherent in racism. Although some Black people dislike whites and act on that prejudice to insult or hurt them, that’s not the same as systematically oppressing them and negatively affecting every aspect of their lives,...

You don't say?

Great advice - except they left out what it's like, to have to repeat that for ignorant (and hostile) white people, multiple times a day: 

You don't say?

Or for "every aspect" of a black person's life.

I do say.

Under these circumstances, whites make blacks tired of living,…

 

"Overtones Of Potential" Nonsense

""There are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign."

-- David Patterson, New York's first black governor, employing reverse-racism in the same manner Barack Obama's been doing it, in the Daily News

I'll Say It: Black People Are Acting Like Niggers

"A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.”

-- Kevin Krause, reporting on (what I wish was) the stupidest thing I've heard since the Don Imus/Duke University nonsense, for the Dallas Morning News

The only "black holes" are in Jones and Price's heads. (How did these two bozos get into positions of responsibility?) As an American, I am so ashamed - as we all should be. This is just too dumb. And, to think, they got an apology!?!

They, both, ought to be fired for idiocy.

Message Received: Read Actual Klan Literature

Keith Sampson, a student employee on the janitorial staff earning his way toward a degree, was in the habit of reading during work breaks. Last October he was immersed in "Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan."

Mr. Sampson was in short order visited by his union representative, who informed him he must not bring this book to the break room, and that he could be fired. Taking the book to the campus, Mr. Sampson says he was told, was "like bringing pornography to work." That it was a history of the battle students waged against the Klan in the 1920s in no way impressed the union rep.

The assistant affirmative action officer who next summoned the student was similarly unimpressed. Indeed she was, Mr. Sampson says, irate at his explanation that he was, after all, reading a scholarly book. "The Klan still rules Indiana," Marguerite Watkins told him – didn't he know that? Mr. Sampson, by now dazed, pointed out that this book was carried in the university library. Yes, she retorted, you can get Klan propaganda in the library.

The university has allowed no interviews with Ms. Watkins or any other university official involved in the case. Still, there can be no disputing the contents of the official letter that set forth the university's case.

Mr. Sampson stood accused of "openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your Black co-workers." The statement, signed by chief affirmative action officer Lillian Charleston, asserted that her office had completed its investigation of the charges brought by Ms. Nakea William, his co-worker – that Mr. Sampson had continued, despite complaints, to read a book on this "inflammatory topic." "We conclude," the letter informed him, "that your conduct constitutes racial harassment. . . ." A very serious matter, with serious consequences, it went on to point out.

-- Dorothy Rabinowitz, documenting the further adventures of reverse-racism (after the Don Imus and Duke University episodes) that's been allowed to take hold in NewAge America, for the Wall Street Journal.

Ignoring Your Relations - For Relativism

"We don't see a lot of criminals like Doris Payne," said John Kennedy, president of the Jewelers' Security Alliance.

Payne grew up in the coal-mining town of Slab Fork, W.Va., her imagination fueled by "Gone With the Wind" and its depictions of women she would impersonate for the rest of her life. In her mother's dresses and hats, she would roam the house, clicking her heels, talking to Rhett Butler.

"I think that movie contributed as much to what I became as anything else in my life," Payne said.

When she was 13, she was trying on watches at a local store when a white customer entered. The owner dismissed Payne, who is black, and she realized she could walk out with the merchandise. "I could cause this man, the white man, to forget."

For the next several years, Payne said, she practiced lifting jewelry but never stole anything, though her son, Ronald, said in an interview that his mother did keep the goods during that time.

Payne said she stole her first diamond at age 27, hoping to raise money to help her mother leave an abusive husband. She remembers her mother's reaction: "She said, 'Doris, don't you know that's stealing?' "

"I'm not stealing, because I'm just going to keep what they let me have," she replied.

-- DeeDee Correll, in a true crime story that, in one fell swoop, dispels all the black victim stories out there, in the Los Angeles Times.

Doris Payne