Are all elderly white people racist?

[Anonymous]

I use the term black. If people choose to identify as African American fine but I have no idea when talking generally or to someone I meet if their heritage is African and if they identify as an African. Many people with Caribbean roots do not identify as African American. Also many Africans (Northern Africa for example) are not black so those two terms are not synonymous. Someone whose family came from Morrocco a hundred plus years ago is just as African American as someone whose family came from Kenya.

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*Morocoo

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Jewish paternal Grandmother has said some nasty things that I refuse to even repeat. I would think that being a Jew from that generation she would be more tolerant. I thought wrong.

Hate teaches hate. The disease is communicable.

Actually, I was raised Jewish and taught to "live and let live," and ultimately, that I should be tolerant of others because our culture/religion knows firsthand of the destruction casused by intolerance.

[Anonymous]

The only racists I have met recently are late 30's early 40's wealthy, white and AA women.

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Anonymous wrote:My dad will also refer to people as black. He worked for the federal govt in dc for many years, so he had a lot of black friends, went to a black church or two for weddings, funerals, etc., but always referred to his or my friends/colleagues as black before any other descriptor.

We talked about this once, and he explained to me that he didn't meet a black person until he was in college. He is in his mid 70s and grew up in the mid-west. He didn't grow up thinking black people were 'different', just didn't think about them at all..

I can attest t this, part of the stigma of lazy federal government workers is due to the cultural laziness of dc blacks. You can't expect a culture dependent in generational welfare to be very energetic about work. This is only dc natives I haven't noticed this with african immigrants who come herr for a better life.

Original poster here. You completely missed my point in favor of taking the excuse to diss 'dc blacks' which really had little to do with the story.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad will also refer to people as black. He worked for the federal govt in dc for many years, so he had a lot of black friends, went to a black church or two for weddings, funerals, etc., but always referred to his or my friends/colleagues as black before any other descriptor.

We talked about this once, and he explained to me that he didn't meet a black person until he was in college. He is in his mid 70s and grew up in the mid-west. He didn't grow up thinking black people were 'different', just didn't think about them at all..

I can attest t this, part of the stigma of lazy federal government workers is due to the cultural laziness of dc blacks. You can't expect a culture dependent in generational welfare to be very energetic about work. This is only dc natives I haven't noticed this with african immigrants who come herr for a better life.

Original poster here. You completely missed my point in favor of taking the excuse to diss 'dc blacks' which really had little to do with the story.

Yeah, I also noticed that the PP who responded to your post had a response that was *completely* off topic to what you were saying.

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Anonymous wrote:Sigh. White woman here. My grandparents have been gone for a while now, and I've been missing the presence of that generation in my life. We've got a lot of 75+ y.o. "original owners" in my 1960s suburban NoVA neighborhood. I've really enjoyed getting to know quite a few of them, but inevitably, at some point in our friendship/acquaintanceship, they'll say something really racist. And then I'm done.

I was raised in '80s era P.G. County, which resembled the racial mix of Sesame Street, so I know I'm somewhat sheltered from this stuff, but seriously, are all elderly white people racist? FWIW, my elderly neighbors seem to hail from all over -- NY, MA, SC, etc. Maybe I need to move to Takoma Park.

No more than white women reared in the '80s ers in P.G. County are horse's patoots.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. White woman here. My grandparents have been gone for a while now, and I've been missing the presence of that generation in my life. We've got a lot of 75+ y.o. "original owners" in my 1960s suburban NoVA neighborhood. I've really enjoyed getting to know quite a few of them, but inevitably, at some point in our friendship/acquaintanceship, they'll say something really racist. And then I'm done.

I was raised in '80s era P.G. County, which resembled the racial mix of Sesame Street, so I know I'm somewhat sheltered from this stuff, but seriously, are all elderly white people racist? FWIW, my elderly neighbors seem to hail from all over -- NY, MA, SC, etc. Maybe I need to move to Takoma Park.

No more than white women reared in the '80s ers in P.G. County are horse's patoots.

era not ers.

[Anonymous]

Some of the most openly racist people I know are AA. I used to work in an office with mostly AAs and they were totally fine with dumping on other races. It seemed to me that they were completely unaware that what they were saying was racist and were just talking about the way things are. It was weird seeing how they would selectively "act all white", as one of my co-workers put it, when talking on the phone or when interacting with a non-AA visitor.

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Anonymous wrote:We're all doomed. Everyone hates everyone and there's no end in sight.

It's a survival instinct. Someone on another thread suggested that racism will fade away as the number of multiracial people increases. Maybe there is some hope.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the most openly racist people I know are AA. I used to work in an office with mostly AAs and they were totally fine with dumping on other races. It seemed to me that they were completely unaware that what they were saying was racist and were just talking about the way things are. It was weird seeing how they would selectively "act all white", as one of my co-workers put it, when talking on the phone or when interacting with a non-AA visitor.

This is true as I walked into lunch room one day and only AAs were there and I heard one of the say something about "white folks are...". He stopped in mid-sentence when he saw me. It was obvious from all their faces that what he was saying was racist, because one of them said, "Don't pay any attention to him as he was telling us a story that had been told him." Racism, sexism, ageism are everywhere and they will never be eradicated.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're all doomed. Everyone hates everyone and there's no end in sight.

It's a survival instinct. Someone on another thread suggested that racism will fade away as the number of multiracial people increases. Maybe there is some hope.

No, I don't think this will happen. There are many mixed-race people in Brazil and yet racism still exists there.

[Anonymous]

Everyone's a little bit racist...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM