This city has a HUGE racism problem. I see it all the time, every single day.
And, oh, by the way, I’m white.
I see it on the streets, in lineups, when I order food, at school, at work, everywhere. News outlets here refuse to even touch race issues, UNLESS the story was already broken by another outlet. I have my contacts in media here, so trust me when I say that 99% of racist incidents in the city go completely untold(even though they’re news worthy). It’s white people protecting white people, because if we say this white person was racist, white people snap shit and go on a massive defence, and act like it was they, themselves who were accused. I’ve seen first hand how white people(don’t forget, the race to which I belong) get all confused, and shrivel up into a ball when confronted with a conversation about racism.
I can’t get on the bus without some old man, or lady staring in confusion at me, and my brown girlfriend, for us simply ‘being’. I’ve seen folks openly mock her people, and joke that it isn’t racist, because “they’re not racist”. And don’t even mention traveling outside Halifax, to the rest of NS. I’ve had whole restaurants stare at us, in these small NS towns, that seem to only have white people. It was unnerving, and highly disturbing.
I tried to say it was a coincidence, or use some other excuse, but the truth is, I’ve seen and heard way too much from here, that people just don’t say, in other, larger(real) cities. NYC was nicer to us than Halifax has EVER been, just to put that into perspective. Even the homeless were nicer to us there.
The one thing that REALLY makes Halifax racist, is Halifax’s refusal to admit there is an issue with race relations. If you can’t admit there’s a problem, nothing will ever get better.
Trust me, this isn’t an “it’s everywhere” problem. It’s a “being able to admit there’s a problem”, problem. I’ve had people just plain try and tell me racism doesn’t exist anymore. #WhitePrivilege —Just some white dude
This article appears in Dec 19-25, 2013.
I’m not discounting the fact that racism exists here in Halifax ; or everywhere else for that matter
But. there could be 10000 different reason that people stare at you; maybe they dont see alot of different racial groups in their area; maybe one or both of you are particularly good looking, or particularly ugly. Maybe your hair is a green mowawk with tatoos to your eyes and enough metal in your face to run NSpower. Maybe you tend to sit under the TV in the lounge; who knows.
Maybe you’re insecure in your relationship
Or maybe the chip on your shoulder is obvious.
What chip? What the fuck are you taking about? The guy is decrying racism in what is an extremely racist place…, how does a shoulder chip come into play? Serious question.
Ignore.
The Bitch was written by an 18-year-old, privileged, CFA, female, women-studies student… who knows it all.
Long live Zwarte Piet!
And Jesus.
And 50-somethings in leopard print.
Racism is defined as someone staring at you or your girlfirend?
Right…
It’s a good bitch topic but maaaaaaaan your points suck donkey balls. Some old people stared at you and a couple of bad apples told you they don’t like her people, which is shitty and shallow, whoever they are and how someone could tell what “people” someone is by skin color this day in age is beyond me and all of a sudden three hundred thousand people in the province (including your girlfriend’s “people”) are a bunch of racists? I know you didn’t mean it that way but come on! I’m a white dude that finds the brown ones sexy too so if I stare it’s not cause I hate somebody! I ain’t hatin’ on ya or saying your wrong, just tryin to spread some love and diffuse this hostile situation of text.
I wrote this. I’m a 25 year old guy, and I’m far from privileged. But, I did grow up here.
And no, I don’t have green hair, or a mohawk, or tattoos, or piercings. I’m clean cut and I speak well, I’m regarded as intelligent, and I’m actually a little on the short side, so you can’t even say I look dangerous. I know I’m not ugly, and I actually have an easy time making friends. People don’t stare at me when I’m alone, and my partner says the same thing, about when she’s alone. It’s not an issue with us, as individuals, but us as a couple. It’s usually the older crowd, but in little towns outside the HRM, people of all ages (except young kids, obviously), give you very unnerving looks.
If you’re white, and don’t have CLOSE non-white, or foreign friends, I don’t think you even have a right to say I’m wrong, or I don’t know what I’m talking about.
I wouldn’t try and dismiss your personal interactions with people, so quickly. Why would I lie? Really?
The question I need to ask is, “why would someone be so quick to defend the racists, in a story they just heard?”
^^ “Don’t trust everything you read on the internet”
-Joan of Arc
some people go ballistic about ‘mixing the races’. i have no doubt op has experienced this when he has been with his g/f.
Okay OhBehave!
Erratum:
The Bitch was written by an 18-year-old, privileged, CFA, MALE, women-studies student… who knows it all. And has a black friend…
Long live Zwarte Piet!
Oh, a troll, how original. I guess adult conversation time is over.
Peace.
A black troll! LOLOL!
this bitch is completely legitimate and all of you people disagreeing or making light of it are part of the problem and exactly what this bitch is talking about. i’ve been to every city in Canada and Halifax is BY FAR the most visibly, subtly, socially, politically and culturally racist place I’ve ever experienced. any of you who deny it are ignoring it and we really need to collectively come together and enact policies that will help alleviate the racism people feel and we need to educate others to help stop the racism people willfully assume. all human beings are beautiful in their difference and even more beautiful in the fact that we are all capable of the same emotions and thoughts. the most dangerous thing in the world is forgetting that we’re all the same. forgetting this has been the cause of incredible suffering to many groups in the world.
Another troll! Welcome!
The problem is Halifax branded itself, a very long time ago, as an incredibly friendly place. This was back when the city’s main thing was navy ships coming through here, in Halifax’s hay-day, in an effort to persuade sailors to get drunk, feel at home, and spend a lot of their money. Which is why we have a shit ton of navy clubs around here, to this day. A lot of them are still alive, and open. We convinced ourselves we’re an incredibly friendly place, over time, by making it our mantra…
OP
Nicely put.
I really hate to generalize, but Nova Scotia is filled with A LOT of backward hick conservative ‘christians’ who are not only dumb as fuck, but can’t see beyond their own noses.
I spent my teen years/undergrad years in rural NS, and I have to say I have seen more of this in the rural parts of NS than I do in Halifax, but there are still a lot of dumbass racist assholes hanging around these parts, too.
In any event, I might sound like a huge asshole here, but it’s like the IQ drops 50 points when you leave HRM.
i’ve lived in many provinces, and i agree with the op and kitty
OP; all the best; I’ve not had your experiences in HRM; and I did spend some time with a woman from another race.
I’ve always figured, that If you act like you are entitled/supposed to be there, eventually noone will notice.
let em stare.
Anyway you slice it, Zwarte Miete(y) and OhBehave are still a better love story than Twilight.
PK
Personality doesn’t necessarily depend on intelligence level (you might not be saying this I know). Usually it’s among other things, where the person is emotionally, how well he or she can recognize what areas are subjective and what areas aren’t, as well as where he or she wishes to devote mental energy. Also, there’s what information one has received from word of mouth and how one might try to fit in (many people who are highly intelligent still only care about themselves, it has nothing to do with logic). The worst case is when people actually want to be superior to others and use a another “group” based on color, religion, belief, or class to get a quick fix on feeling this superiority;it’s like a drug to them.
rural areas in any part of the country seem to be less tolerant. of all sorts of stuff.
bc interior was logging & pulp mill red necks. manitoba small towns are farmer red necks.
alberta rolling hills have rancher red necks.
“News outlets here refuse to even touch race issues” – OP is too familiar with the way American News Stations practice Journalism. The majority of news The Captain receives from the US never fails to mention race; whether the story is about crime or politics, or some banal story. Canadian news outlets tone down this practice, I feel, which is probably why you feel they don’t pay it enough attention.
“99% of racist incidents in the city go completely untold” – Empty bluster
“It’s white people protecting white people, because if we say this white person was racist, white people snap shit and go on a massive defence, and act like it was they, themselves who were accused.” – Wait… who’s the racist? The Captain’s never witnessed this style of defense tactics deployed before. Presumably, this is just more empty bluster.
“don’t forget, the race to which I belong” – Oh, how could we forget…
“I’ve seen first hand how white people get all confused, and shrivel up into a ball when confronted with a conversation about racism” – Probably because you’re an obnoxious, pushy, shit-disturbing asshole that they don’t want to deal with. Can you guess why? Because they’re not prejudice people who feel like talking to you only to inevitably become labeled as a racist.
FYI: They’re staring at you for many reasons…
-You’re scowling at everyone (unintentionally)
-You get fresh with your GF at every opportunity
-You confront people with racist accusations at every opportunity
-You’re funny looking
-The Captain could go on…
Why jump right to racism as an excuse for someone staring at you?
“these small NS towns, that seem to only have white people. It was unnerving, and highly disturbing.” – This needed to be quoted.
“NYC was nicer to us than Halifax has EVER been, just to put that into perspective” – HAHAHA. Where’d ya go, hipster? Time fucking Square? Guaranteed The Captain could take you to a New York neighbourhood that you, if you were left for the day, would end up at least shot or stabbed (if you’re extremely lucky). Just to put it into perspective… when Cops DO travel into these neighbourhoods they have a minumum 4 Cops to a squad car.
“The one thing that REALLY makes Halifax racist, is Halifax’s refusal to admit there is an issue with race relations. If you can’t admit there’s a problem, nothing will ever get better.” – The one thing that makes you a prejudice, judgmental piece of shit is you’re ability to see racism where there is none, and to accuse wholesale a population of the very prejudice you suffer from.
“Trust me, this isn’t an “it’s everywhere” problem. It’s a “being able to admit there’s a problem”, problem. I’ve had people just plain try and tell me racism doesn’t exist anymore.” – Trust The Captain, OP’s ignorance isn’t an isolated problem. Many people have far greater faith in their own awareness and intelligence than they deserve credit for. I’ll submit OP as a shining example of this
Vote Captain!
I don’t know any other province that segregates 95% if it’s black community the way this one does
First, I know people in the media, in this city. I’ve seen and heard things you wouldn’t believe when it comes to how, and who, reports on issues, if they’re picked up at all.
Second, you ARE the type of person that needlessly, and VERY ignorantly defends people, and all you know, from solely me, is that they’re most likely racist. *slow clap*
Instead of saying, “Wow, that’s a messed up story. Maybe we need to look inwards on ourselves, and ask ‘is it possible he’s right?’, you attempt to pick apart my story through pure conjecture.
Thank you for completely proving my point.
I really hope you don’t think what you just tried to do was right, in any way.
Even IF I was wrong(I’m really not), how would raising the question,”IS IT POSSIBLE WE COULD BE BETTER?” a bad thing?
Sorry, my last post was meant for The Captain.
Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not some sort of person who goes around calling people racist, all willy-nilly. That would be VERY messed up.
But, when I hear random people pretending to “whoop” like Natives, and call them dirty, IN A UNIVERSITY, I’m gonna call it.
When I get invited out with a group I don’t know very well, and they say something like “I bet that Chinese girl smells like noodles” (It fucking happened, not cool). I’m gonna fucking call it.
When I hear a professor said in a private conversation, to a friend, that he just realized racism still fucking existed, and he was flabbergasted, I’m going to fucking call it.
I have a friend who was called the N-word, to her face, by her boss, and was told by everyone she talked to, her only option was to quit, because there was no real evidence he said this, since no one else was around. It was at a popular office supply company.
I have a million more scenarios like this, that have happened. These are only a few, I’m not gonna write a fucking book, here.
OP if you think halifax has the corner on racism, you are obtuse as hell. “Oh my god! I just discovered that a place is racist! Now i will yell at OTHER people for white privilege.”
Seriously? You’re JUST seeing this now? And you’re acting as if halifax is a little nazi hamlet in a world otherwise filled with serenity and peace?
THAT, my little sanctimonious turd, is white privilege. You didn’t even have to say you were white. It’s clear from the shock you’ve sustained to suddenly discover, well into adulthood, that racism exists.
yes. There are some cities that are nicer and some cities that are worse. Hang out in fucking Detroit. I live there 50% of the time. It’s fucked down there.
As an old person I’ll stare at who the fuck I want to stare at, you sound like Leonard Hoffstedder, short and intelligent, even though you let your guard down by using the phrase “openly mock HER PEOPLE”.
Runs, I have always known racism is everywhere. I’m not stupid, but you thinking that me mentioning it, in this instance, is proof of I don’t know what I’m talking about, sure as hell makes you VERY stupid.
My partner is from a much less tolerant, and less wealthy country, and even she is shocked by how OPENLY, and NONCHALANTLY people say disrespectful remarks about another persons background, or culture in Halifax. But, I’ve been noticing this since I was a kid in elementary school, looooong before I ever met her.
People aren’t running around the streets, being cartoon characters and obvious about how they have racist tendencies, let’s be real here. They give you shitty looks, like you have 10 heads. They give you terrible service. They make fun of different names. They make fun of accents, or say that person was “weird”. Or worst of all, they act like your stupid, because you don’t have flawless english. Most of all, they defend other racist people, out of fucking nowhere. Kind of like people jumping all over me, in this sick excuse of a conversation. It’s ironic how a message that racism is an issue, always makes the racist people self-identify.
I could see the complaint as valid if he was accosted by the guy from Duck Dynasty.
This sounds like a lot of the same statements I’m seeing from people right now.
It’s a CBC report on racism in Halifax from 1962.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2OM03mtmg
Halifax isn’t racist and neither is the rest of Nova Scotia. After living here for 25 years I have seen very little racism first hand. Granted my gf isn’t brown. But even if she was and I took her back to my small hometown there arnt going to be stares from every coroner! Seriously what small town do you go to where you get these stares?
There are racists here and there. The thing is that now that you have a brown girlfriend you automatically think anyone looking at both of you are judging you based on race and wondering why the hell you’re together. It’s not true. People simply stare at other people. I don’t like it either, neither does my gf. But hey, if you’re out in public people are going to look at you. And the better looking you are the more stares you will get. Perhaps small towns stare at you because you are two new faces that have never been seen there before. That’s what small towns are like. Everyone knows everyone. And just because two new people stroll into the local cafe it dosnt mean they’re looking at you with hatred, just curiosity.
And seriously it’s Nova Scotia. The population for the province is under 1,000,000. How many racists would you say are in all of Ontario? Less than NS? Dosnt seem plausible.
Racism. What a joke. I like having people of all races besides mine wait on me.
Funny, my son had a black girlfriend or should I say she had a white boyfriend. Neither ever mentioned any racist incidents and I never saw any when I was with them. Does racism exist, of course it does, here and everywhere else. And racism isn’t only whites being derogatory to blacks, but also blacks on browns (East Indian) or browns on orientals or orientals on whites or what have you. Hell there is racism with whites on whites, blacks on blacks, oriental on oriental. Before you start calling me racist for using the word oriental instead of Asian, remember Asians include those from the Far East, the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and everything in between of a multitude of colours.
I’m not going to take issue with OhB’s perception that racism is endemic in Halifax. I am after all, the guy that believes that islam has declared war on the civilized world and it’s going to take a hell of a lot more than “No, we aren’t” to convince me otherwise.
No, it’s this extraordinary statement that made my jaw drop:
“This was back when the city’s main thing was navy ships coming through here, in Halifax’s hay-day, in an effort to persuade sailors to get drunk, feel at home, and spend a lot of their money”
Now, I don’t exactly know what time period he considers to be our hey-day, but every bit of anecdotal and documentary evidence points to the fact that during the Second World War (the period of largest Naval presence in Halifax) sailors were made to feel anything but “at home” here in Halifax. Oh sure, the good burghers of the town wanted as much of their money as they could cadge, but welcome – No Way. This was a period where shops, restaurants and drinking establishments could bar entry to men in uniform, property owners would openly refuse to rent to Naval personnel, and those that did , frequently gouged them extortionately.
The V.E. day riots – initiated by shore based sailors and enthusiastically joined in by local civilians – may have been started by some silly orders issued by Admiral Murray, but they were a clear expression of 6 years of pent up frustration and anger.
Check out James Lamb’s “The Corvette Navy” and Hal Lawrence’s “A Bloody War” for a matelot’s eye view of “Slackers” during WW2.
This will be on the final.
We now return to regular programming.
Ivan, a lot of establishments down town still act this way toward sailors. Went out on Canada Day a few years back with some friends, three of which are full-time members of the Navy. No bar down town would accept their military I.D and we had to go from place to place for quite a while before someone finally accepted their military I.D. ON CANADA DAY. I am far from the type of person that shouts slogans like “If you don’t stand behind our military then stand in front of them so they can shoot you for having an opinion.” But I was still a little annoyed that my friends were treated this way, especially on Canada Day. I imagine that if racism was like this – people of certain cultural background being refused entry into restaurants for example, we’d probably hear more about it.
“People aren’t running around the streets, being cartoon characters”
That’s the real crime, I think.
Oh yeah – refusing people service because of their occupation is as bad as refusing them because of their race. It stems from the same root ignorance and fear – stereotyping an entire group of very diverse individuals because of their perceived conduct. *Irony alert for Ivan – somebody mention Islam?* >: ( Same thing happens in Kingston, Ontario – another old conservative town that depends heavily on both Universities and Government for it’s economic livelihood. I can remember one bar actually ran an add touting it’s weekend specials and it ended with the line “And best of all no *bleep* guys” Wasn’t too hard to figure out that the bleeped word was “military”.
“Thank you for completely proving my point.”
Your point = There’s a bunch of racists in Halifax
The Captains point = You’re one of them, OB
So yes, I have substantiated your point. Any chance of receiving credit for adding weight to your debate? No? I thought not… I assume you’d rather not trouble yourself with some white punk, eh?
The Captain is quite surprised that one of your sub-intelligence even picked up on that point. Well done!
*slow clap*
“…you attempt to pick apart my story through pure conjecture” – You’re really going to call The Captain out for conjecture? Especially after your beautifully (sarcasm) worded post?
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Do you refer to your girlfriend as your “brown” girlfriend when you introduce her, or describe her to your friends?
Wait OB, those people aren’t racist, race has nothing to do with it, they are height-phobes when your woman towers over you.
OhBehave, judging from your prose, you’re not in a position to judge anyone else’s level of intelligence.
I maintain that your shock at racism is white privilege. Instead of blowharding words at me, why not address the question?
My fiance is chinese. My best friend is black. I am WELL aware of racism in this city because i see it addressed at them every day.
You, op, are an idiot who makes FAR too many assumptions for your skill set. How are you completely unable to see that me calling you out for your privilege is NOT the same as me denying the issue you bring up? I’m not saying the premise of the message is incorrect. I’m saying the medium delivering it is a fucking retard.
See here’s what pisses me off about you op. You have had the good luck to have been able to avoid this realization because of who you are and instead of being grateful for that and realizing that this is A HUGE FUCKING PART OF THE PROBLEM, you just make a point of blaming everybody else and stand, as if deserving of self-righteousness, against a city, MANY of whom are not racist in the least.
You’re right. Racism is disgusting and we should not become desensitized to it. But i’m sorry.. you are JUST recognizing it now because your battle cry of “Whateverrr… I realized this a loooonng time ago” is weak and reads like an afterthought of someone who just got caught with his finger in his nose. So instead of making yourself look like MORE of a jackass, why not just admit that life for you, “just some white dude” has been fucking ridiculously easy compared to the lives lived by target minorities and use THAT as a springboard for your indignant rant? It IS horrifying that lots of people never have to experience prejudice. It’s not your fault. It’s the world you were raised in. But if you don’t recognize it now, it IS your fault.
Recognizing racism is not the summit of enlightenment. Recognizing that you were completely oblivious to it because you COULD be is not even the summit of enlightenment but it’s a damn sight closer.
How true… the racists self-identify indeed. If i had been black or hispanic or arab and said what i said, would you have still called me racist? Are you inclined to do so now that you realize that not only are the two most important people in my life not white but i myself am half native?
You looked at me and made a judgment call based on almost zero information. This is what racists do too, by the way. You just take a gamble as to when it’s “ok” to do it and when it’s not.
You need, NEED to talk less and listen more because you have NOT arrived yet, little fella.
hay Chaplacka, are you, perhaps white?
And i’m sorry, intellectually recognizing that “we are all equal” and “it’s not nice to put down someone because of how they look” is NOT recognizing the pain and misery brought on by racism OR any sort of prejudice. This is a wonderful way to raise your children and, sorry, MOST kids know this by age 5 unless their parents are complete sociopaths. So op. Your parents aren’t backwoods sociopathic rednecks. Good for you. You were raised with a basic behavioural nerve net. Good for you. Your complacency in thinking behaving like a civilized human being (Which should be EXPECTED of you) is enough is what disgusts me. “I already know what I’M doing.. I understood the concept of racism when i was little, therefore this is no longer my problem”
Suck my cock, op. You expected all of us to kowtow to what a wonderful person you are and now you’re pissed because some of us are seeing through your self-righteous little rant. This whole thing is totally self-serving. You need to start by recognizing that you are LUCKY AS HELL and that you didn’t deserve it any more than anyone else. And yet because of an INHERENTLY unfair system, you got a good deal. And instead of feeing ashamed, you’re handing out scoldings like a damn millionaire throwing breadcrumbs to the little match girl. THAT SHOULD PISS YOU OFF, DAMNIT. That we are all raised this way… that our society operates this way. Open racism is annoying but it’s the INSIDIOUS stuff that is horrific.
I don’t expect you to get this but i’m sort of hoping you do.. at least a little..
I’m going to light a match, blow it out, and while the ember is still hot burn the wart off my nutsack. j/k. I don’t know it just felt right.
I think we’ve all felt that way at one time or another, Daniel. Just a suggestion, you may want to record the process. In the off chance that you are ever seized with the desire to apply to NSCAD, it will make a handsome addition to your portfolio.
And to judge by the frequency with which the term “redneck” is being tossed about on this thread, by highly enlightened, progressive minded white people – don’t look for things like racism, classism, etc to be going anywhere anytime soon. And before a host of enlightened, progressive-minded white people chime in with stentorian lecturing about how it’s not nearly as emotive a hate-filled term of marginalization as certain others – can I just remind you that “Victimization is determined by the victim, not the perpetrator” That is your catechism, is it not? So instead of rationalizing to me, a perfect stranger, about how “justified” or “harmless” your prejudices are. Try “being the change you seek” Or, is that just a phrase that you throw into the faces of people you consider to be your lessers?
Ivan
{can I just remind you that “Victimization is determined by the victim, not the perpetrator” That is your catechism, is it not?}
I’m not sure who or whom your directing this to, or whether you support the view that “Victimization is determined by the victim”, as you weren’t specific enough with the way you worded your post. This issue of victimization being determined by the victim is very interesting to me because of well, areas of insight that I hope will put a wider perspective on what it means to be a “victim” that I will now point out.
Take the situation that I so randomly brought up on another thread where I was workplace mobbed in Newfoundland for “running up on” a coworker when he stopped abruptly and we rubber shoulders. He assumed that I was being impatient and disregarded his personal space. Was he justified in trying to get others to gang up on me in the situation appart from whether or not he was a victim of something I had “done”.
I believe that he completely over reacted, and this is besides him having jumped the gun in assuming my motivations. Even if I got impatient, I didn’t mean to rub shoulder’s so the best he could argue was that I was negligent, but then what harm was really done? Most people wouldn’t have cared at all (I don’t even care if someone accidentally runs into me resulting in a bruise or something shit happens).
Was my co worker a victim just because he said so????
Did he have the “right” to see due process done to “rectify” the situation.
No
Why
Because I simply can’t please everybody, and faults are a part of the human condition, to deny them is escapism and what happenned was not morally significant enough to warrant negative effects on me. Just because he “felt” as if I had disrespected his space doesn’t make him a victim. Victimhood involves a moral landscape that exists outside of the situation involving more than one simple perspective.
Often people argue that “the way they feel can’t be morally wrong because it is the way they are”. My response to that is that yes, the way one feels isn’t morally wrong in itself; it is one’s ACTIONS that make what someone did morally wrong, and the severity of the morally wrong action depends on both how ill the effects were, as well as the potential of what might have happened given other circumstances.
Now, how is the workplace mobbing incident significant to, and similar with instances involving racism. Well, firstly, the motivations of the person commiting the racism has to be racist, and the “victim” of the racism has to actually have been descriminated against (which returns us to the motivations of the person commiting the racism).
Has damage been done, or very well could have been done financially, emotionally (and let’s be reasonable here), socially, physically and so on, otherwise the victim is causing harm when it isn’t necessary which is a wrong thing to do.
Me saying “I’ll decide when I’m the victim” is like a self appointed KING demanding that people kneel. There has to be cultural or social criteria for what is and isn’t bad behaviour. Part of the “solution” that has been implemented by the govenment for this dilemma is affirmative action which has it’s faults welcome to the fact that reality simply has build in shit.
I thank all who have read this, and have a nice life
No Daniel – I personally do not. And my comment was directed at those who thump the pulpit on concepts like “white guilt” and “white privilege” and can still comfortably throw around terms like “redneck”. I know, I know – the lost Library of Alexandria could be refilled eleventy times over with doctoral theses about how despising ill-educated, low income white people is an entirely different scale of prejudice than despising ill-educated, low income (insert any skin tone other than white). I just don’t buy it.
Trivia note: In Afrikaans, the word “rooinek” (literally red neck) is a pejorative term for South Africans of English descent.
I couldn’t tell either way. That long winded comment of mine wasn’t addressed specifically to you past the first paragraph; I was more or less on top of the hill yelling to the trees or something like that..
Hey Pretty (no cock) Kitty, I guess if I’m white then I cant recognize racism when I see it right? Only races? I’ve seen plenty of racism in my travels, but where I noticed it the least, is fucking Halifax. Anyone who thinks there is some sort of epidemic here can feel free to take a stroll down the streets of Houston, Detroit, NYC or maybe you can take a nice plane ride over to Glasgow or Edinburgh. Ever hear of a Chav? Maybe one day you’ll meet one.
Anyone who thinks the IQ drops 50 points when you leave the city are more retarded then the backwoods hicks they believe dominate the landscape outside of these super intelligent urban centers.
No worries, Daniel. We all like to howl at the moon upon occasion and this site provides a near perfect forum for it.
And I really shouldn’t be casting the stone of hypocrisy at people who call others “rednecks” since I am overly fond of using the taxonomy of their urban cousin – the “wigger” And to paraphrase the brilliant Chris Rock, everything that black people hate about wiggers, white people hate even more. One long uninterrupted lock&load drive-by from Spryfield to Highfield. Open season on every swaggering shitbag in a backwards flatbrim ballcap, costume jewellery, oversized Pistons jacket and baggyass jeans. Dull eyed posers driven by nothing more than the short term gratification of immediate pleasure. Eatsleepshitfuckgethighhurtpeoplesmashstuff. I swear to god I have more in common intellectually , ethically, genetically with Rwandan Mountain Gorillas. And I humbly ask all Mountain Gorillas in the reading audience to forgive the liberty I’ve taken.
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THE PROBLEM PROBLEM
“Trust me, this isn’t an ‘it’s everywhere problem’. It’s a ‘being able to admit there’s a problem,’ problem”. Just some white dude
If the problem of racism in Halifax is a problem about admitting there’s a problem of racism in Halifax – assuming, of course, that there IS a problem of racism in Halifax – then how does White Dude account for that problem?
Actually, of course, if White Dude is to be believed, there are two problems: (a) The problem of racism itself in Halifax, and (b) The problem as to why the citizens of Halifax deny that there’s a problem. So, what’s White Dude’s answers to these problems?
(a) It can only be that the problem of racism in Halifax has arisen because the citizens of Halifax are evil. There can be no other reason. Economic disparities, crime rates, and so on are irrelevant as factors causing racism in Halifax. It must exist only because the citizens are evil. Now, how does White Dude propose solving the problem of evil among the citizens of Halifax? What is his solution?
(b) Why do the citizens of Halifax deny that there is a problem of racism in Halifax? Why do they deny what White Dude claims is an indisputable fact? Are they simply stupid and fail to grasp reality? Or are they cowards who lack the courage to face up to that reality? Now, how does White Dude propose solving the problem of stupidity/cowardice among the citizens of Halifax? What will he recommend?
Trust me. no empty balloon-type answer like “education” is acceptable since, of course, “education” in the present context simply MEANS eliminating racism in Halifax but provides no specifics as to just how this will be done. Even White Dude must understand that the exhortation, “Don’t be racist!” just doesn’t hack it. On the other hand, White Dude just can’t say, “I don’t know.” That’s not good enough, White Dude. You raised the issue, now solve it.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
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Not that I’m generalizing…
Not that the (original) topic is generalizing…
I see in the other racist bitch I didn’t mention I hate white people specifically.
I just broadly said I hate “everyone” that way if some little green guy decides to show himself as a Rep from the Andromidan galaxy … I’m still covered.
It seems to me this OB takes his being white to somehow mean his point of view should be taken more seriously . Fuck off whitey !
And OB some idiots like yourself would call me white, I’m more of a pale pinkish almond colour… Much more off light beige than white .
Maybe my idea that all people should be labeled by the colour of their blood which for most people is red …. & for the record & consistency . I don’t like them either