Hi everyone! I hope all of you are doing well despite the nowadays world situation.
The purpose of this survey is to give a realist approach of race relations in the United States, especially the current racial wealth gap. Your sincere insight will allow me to get the closest to know American society of today and bringing spotlight to this issue. Remember there are no correct or incorrect answers, I am only interested in your own opinion and experience. The survey is completely anonymous and your data is protected. It takes around 5 - 7 minutes. I would truly appreciate if you share it with any fellow U.S. residents that are interested to reflect their voice on this matter. Thanks in advance! Here is the link: https://forms.gle/hiFZGHjyef4Bhs9eA
My answer to this question is "Yes, racism exists in all cultures", of course. But what do I mean and why is it important?...
If you have not read Kareem's take on the Clipper's owner, please read this:
http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/
I couldn't agree more with Kareem - but when I finished reading it I was a bit upset that Kareem did not mention any racism towards whites in Black Society - or racism from blacks toward hispanics, or hispanics toward whites.... I feel that his comment is guilty of stopping short and not having the full conversation that he appears to be trying to have. Kareem writes:
"In our quest for social justice, we shouldn’t lose sight that racism is the true enemy. "
Too true. But what Kareem should have done here is explain that there are Black guys who also say some bad things about whites.... and act basically the same way that this Clipper's owner was acting in the tape.
Since Kareem didn't make this point, it makes me wonder if Kareem recognizes any racism in black society? Does it exist? When a NESN reporter went on a racist tyrade against RGIII last year, did Kareem speak out about that racism being the true enemy?
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/21392746/rob-parker-calls-rg3-a-cornball-brother-says-hes-not-one-of-us
>"My question, which is just a straight honest question: is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother?" Parker asked to much confusion among the show's other participants. "Well, [that] he's black, he kind of does his thing, but he's not really down with the cause, he's not one of us.
>"He's kind of black, but he's not really the guy you'd really want to hang out with, because he's off to do something else."
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>"I want to find about him," Parker said. "I don't know because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancee. Then there was all this talk about he's a Republican, which there's no information at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper into why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like, 'I've got black skin, but don't call me black.' So people wondered about Tiger Woods."
Here is the same man on why he said it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2013/01/07/rob-parker-talks-about-calling-rgiii-a-cornball-brother/
>It was just a conversation that’s had in the black community when athletes, or famous entertainers or whatever, push away from their people,” Parker
... keep reading on reddit ➡
The concept that "the N word" shouldn't be spoken aloud ever under any circumstances by anyone harms society by unnecessarily and artificially granting a word some almost magical power, so that it cannot be uttered. It's an ugly word with an ugly history. I'm not arguing that using the full word is good or appropriate, but treating it like voldemorts name makes its power worse than if it were treated like any other slur like cunt, fuck, etc. For example, saying "You shouldn't call people n * * * rs" is just as offensive as saying "Your daddy's a n * * r", even though they mean completely opposite things, and ironically for the sake of this argument itself I have to self censor the words in a meta way so my post doesn't get banned. Context matters, and the aura of "no no word" around saying N***r among grown adults calling it the N word is almost childish.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/352457/ratings-black-white-relations-new-low.aspx
I'm curious how my even tempered and logical centrist friends here interpret the data showing that public opinion of race relations in the U.S. dropped 20% at some point between 2013 and 2015. Obviously there was the Michael Brown case in the time, and Eric Garner, and more that I can't remember I suppose. Treyvon Martin died prior to 2013 polling so I'm surprised the drop wasn't closer to that time period, which I felt was when these situations began to be high profile and in the public eye. It's also somewhat interesting to note that the election of the first black U.S. president didn't budge the percentage at all.
I'm curious to anyone's take on this huge, fast, drop in perceived race relations. Did race relations actually drop, or was it just our perception that changed? Did this mostly happen as a result of increased coverage of racial or possibly racially motivated incidents? Are there other causes... did social media affect this? If we found out that media coverage of these high profile potential hate crimes caused the drop in perceived race relations, could/should they handle it any differently?
