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Why is it that some people feel that they must ask question about race in this category? |
Travel Info Ah mean, it have racism all over, but why this obsession about race? think about it, in your neighbourhood, it not going to have people of only one ethnic group living there, its indian, negro, dougla, and from all religious walks of live, so why are they dwelling on it. Its a totally different thing to ask about the CJ's issue, cause that is big news, or d narinesingh issue, or even the lavantille issue, these issues affect the entire country as a whole, so ask away, but to ask about y indians only dating white? thats targeting one group for no apparent reason, and without doing your homework to find out if there is any fact in the statement. Travel Tips Living in the States, in Maryland in particular, I face alot of ridicule from my Black American friends and co-workers because I'm not "down with the struggle." PLEASE EH!!! People think because I am West Indian that I can't identify with race issues. I hear all the time how I don't understand because we didn't experience slavery and the way Black women were treated and the stigma of being a Black man today and blah, blah, blahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ahhhhm Hello?? Slavery came to the West Indies FIRST!!! So its not that my ancestors didn't experience slavery just like theirs did. I think the difference is that we acknowledge that slavery happened DONKEY years ago and that because our forefathers were slaves doesn't mean that we are entitled to some kind of special treatment or sympathy. I'm not blind and I'm not ignorant. I see people have different skin color or eye shape or hair texture than mine. I know racial tension exists. I can even acknowledge that it is much more heightened in Trinidad now. AND???? Sibling rivalry exists too. As a child, I wasn't always in love with my parents. As a parent, my children work my nerves on a daily basis. Its a fact of life. PEOPLE will not always get along. Now being a Trini of course yuh make yuh comments about those "blasted coolies" or "them thiefing chinkee eye" or how yuh cyah "give niggah people nothing," but to me at least, thats more cultural than it is racial and completely harmless. When I say it, I don't mean anything by it and when I hear it, it does not offend me. I guess it is just how I was raised and honestly I am really thankful for it. I genuinely don't see people just as white, or black, or indian, or chinese or blue, or green or striped. I see people and all of them, including me, have their short comings. I hear people here say "I'm the only Black in the neighborhood or my children are the only Blacks in their school." It would seriously take me a minute to even notice that!! Hear nuh, before we moved to Trinidad I went to a private Catholic School. It was only years later looking through pics that I realized that me, my sister and my two cousins were the ONLY Blacks in the school. I think Wendy put it best. She was on Sinbad's show right after she won the crown and he asked her about the racial make up in Trinidad and if any one race considers itself dominant over the other and she said, "Oh no! You can't consider yourself special in Trinidad. You will get put in your place real quick because EVERYBODY thinks they're hotter than Elvis!" I stood up in my living room and cheered "Tell dem dis ting nuh Wendy!!" Nuff said. Others It's hard to answer after Gibbsy Girl, whose response was brilliant...but I just wanted to say that some people have issues and simply can't get past race, and the best way to heal yourself of that problem is to be honest about it, and then do stuff to teach yourself to think differently... For an educational experience try the race test at project implicit, use it as a guide for self improvement if your results aren't satisfactory... https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/... |
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