Media to Blame????

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Originally Posted by Nylo

Though I don't agree with putting "race" before friends at all, I think you guys are taking what he said too literally. In a lot of areas, our race/color of our skin is still proportional to our respective cultures. We all know how main-stream media works, in the past they've made quite the habit of attributing drugs to skin color and culture.

It's bad either way with any color, we're all the same. But every race/group has a stereotype they have to overcome, and people who promote that bad stereotype are scum; they divide us against eachother.

And to OrangeMan, well, if you meant the opposite of that, that really does quallify you as a racist. Not in the derogatory way, but a racist by definition nontheless.

Read his post, read my post, read his post, read my post, read crazypothead's posts. I think that's the order.

Putting race before friends is racist. Putting race AFTER friends is racist. Race means nothing except who your parents were and where they came from, and who their parents were and where they come from, and who their parents were, etc. What does it matter?

Agreed, every race should rise above the stereotypes that are in front of them, but he didn't say that black people should stop selling crack but that they shouldn't sell it to other black people.

If you're talking about culture, that's fine with me, but there's definitely a fine line between a black guy in compton working two jobs to feed his kids and, say, a black movie producer living in LA. They both probably had two entirely different lives, and the fact that they share their color of skin is nothing more than coincidence. I guarantee they would not feel connected to one another by the color of their skin alone, so why should we group them both together?