who were you calling a monkey?

LINKS ARE FUN:
Sir Eelloquacious von Cuddlesteen-Twitty Has a Blog/Double Your $$$ and Your Blogging Pleasure

Whenever you're in a room with African-American people, it would be in your best interest not to call anyone monkey. I don't know the context of your conversation but I know Black people, being one myself. There is always gonna be one who takes that kind of statement out of context.

Let's start pussy-footing around people who go out of their way to be belligerent and offensive to bully others into acting differently. If I call you a monkey and you want to be offended by it that's all well and good. If I happen to mention in the same room as you that one of the fundamental differences between a monkey and an ape is that a monkey has a tail and an apes does not and you choose to take offense? Well fuck you then.

Johnnyp wasn't very clear about the context of his statement but what he is trying to say is that people were simply offended by a word for no reason. I do agree that people do play the race card all the time. I think it's not just black people.
I had an eye opening experience with racial discrimination when I began college. The college I attended was in Detroit and I was probably one of three white women who went there. Up until this point I had never been discrinimated against.
I would be sitting in Psychology and the teacher would say, "Can someone pass out these papers for me?", then one of the students would shout, "Make the white girl do it. She's never worked a day in her life."....what?
It was really hard. And yes, the same 'race card' issues were always present. Students assumed that they were exempt from just about everything because of their race - studying, showing up on time, eating and drinking in class, tests, etc. It was really frustrating.
Even now, at work, there is plently of the same thing occuring. If the owner asks a white girl to do something the white girl assumes it's cuz she's white, same goes for the black employees.

i still don't get the monkey comment, why were you calling a white student a monkey just cause he wanted to see a video about monkies...that just seems mean, maybe you are a monkey racist. do you have a history of hating monkies.

LINKS ARE FUN:
Sir Eelloquacious von Cuddlesteen-Twitty Has a Blog/Double Your $$$ and Your Blogging Pleasure

Listen, i'm not saying that the one person who would use the 'race card' in this situation is right. All i'm saying is that, let's be honest, racism is still around and there are people who are going to use the threat of calling someone a racists to gain advantages. That's just the way it is.

I shouldn't have limited my statement to African-Americans. I say this because if Johnnyp were Black and student he was talking to was Black and he said the word cracker, I'm almost sure he would had the same discussion with a white parent.

i knew what you meant I just didn't think it was nice that, just beacuse a student had an affinity for monkies, you should call him a monkey...but then again you called me an idiot and you don't even know me

LINKS ARE FUN:
Sir Eelloquacious von Cuddlesteen-Twitty Has a Blog/Double Your $$$ and Your Blogging Pleasure

How about everyone just changing the subject. Subjects about race always seem to get heated and that's understandable, but everyone has different views on an issue such as this and you could go on debating about it forever making no progress. So everyone just save yourself the sanity please.

called a white person a cracker and that person happened to be black, I don't think that anyone would complain, and if they did, I think everyone would laugh at them.

I Work at an Animal Shelter

I just love it when little children play together - as if they don't notice their friends are black, white or whatever.

After reading this Blog a number of times, I don't see where racism was intended. But rather, a lack of sensitivity, (considering present company) by the writer, a history teacher, who should well be aware that during the height of the Civil Rights era and before that, African Americans were regularly refered to as monkeys and apes. Having said that, lets look at racism where it is truly blatant. Not just words and phrases. But deeds. Like, the forgotten Black people of Louisiana, still homeless, still scattered and still disenfranchised.