Poll of the Day > My kind of racist Uncle says he wants to stop being racist

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He was always the typical racist old guy who will not joing the KKK because 'they were too exteme' but he only liked whites, asians and middle easterns who were not muslims because he says 'they were the only ones who managed to build civilizations'.

We had a family gathering this Sunday and he told us he watched Cosmos on Netflix a couple of months ago and Neil Degreease Tyson made him question himself, then he saw a few more shows and movies and after watching Star Trek Discovery he liked the job the actress for Michael did....

Fast forward to today he says that he doesn't dislike black people anymore and he likes them now. But he just can't help but hate the Ebonics African american vernacular accent...he says he is trying to stop being racist because he feels racism makes no sense but he cannot stop hating the Ebonics African american vernacular accent.

Do you believe that blacks who speak in Ebonics African american vernacular accent experience more discrimination?
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I laughed.
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Yo dawg wat you sayin bout my 'cent?
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^i cringed
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RCtheWSBC posted...

^i cringed

Holla back y'all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFr-kNbXHew
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O gawd
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Metal_Gear_Link posted...

Do you believe that blacks who speak in Ebonics African american vernacular accent experience more discrimination?

Well, I discriminate against anyone speaking in Ebonics, so yes they do.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

I laughed.

Do you mean that you think this is a fake story? It didn't sound fake to me.

I mean that I laughed.
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assuming the story is true good on your uncle, its hard to shake beliefs youve held for so long and any progress is good.
and dont worry ebonics sound stupid to plenty of people, Dont think any less of them though, how you talk is just a product of your environment
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TheSlinja posted...

assuming the story is true good on your uncle, its hard to shake beliefs youve held for so long and any progress is good.
and dont worry ebonics sound stupid to plenty of people, Dont think any less of them though, how you talk is just a product of your environment

Yeah he finally realizes that he should not hate people because their accent

Metal_Gear_Link posted...

Fast forward to today he says that he doesn't dislike black people anymore and he likes them now. But he just can't help but hate the Ebonics African american vernacular accent...he says he is trying to stop being racist because he feels racism makes no sense but he cannot stop hating the Ebonics African american vernacular accent.

Fact: I personally dislike the "Ebonics African-American vernacular" accent, but I don't dislike black people.
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I've heard this before, and on this very board even. Not a true story.

Unless TC is posting the same story twice, which may well be.

Metal_Gear_Link posted...

He was always the typical racist old guy who will not joing the KKK because 'they were too exteme' but he only liked whites, asians and middle easterns who were not muslims because he says 'they were the only ones who managed to build civilizations'.

We had a family gathering this Sunday and he told us he watched Cosmos on Netflix a couple of months ago and Neil Degreease Tyson made him question himself, then he saw a few more shows and movies and after watching Star Trek Discovery he liked the job the actress for Michael did....

Fast forward to today he says that he doesn't dislike black people anymore and he likes them now. But he just can't help but hate the Ebonics African american vernacular accent...he says he is trying to stop being racist because he feels racism makes no sense but he cannot stop hating the Ebonics African american vernacular accent.

Do you believe that blacks who speak in Ebonics African american vernacular accent experience more discrimination?

I don't care for Ebonics either but it is what it is so I hold my judgment.

only way to get over being kinda racist in my experience is to actually mingle with said people. get to know them. I was never really racist as I was raised and truly believed in equal rights for everyone, but there was a time I didn't want to associate with anyone but white people. but that just seemed normal to me, grew up in a heavily mexican neighborhood about 60% mexican rest white save two black house holds. and everyone just kinda stuck to their own race as far as who they associated with.

later in life I started to go to parties on the regular, and overtime I find myself going to parties where me and my best friend where literally the only white people, despite their "thuggish" looks and attitudes most of them where decent people once you got to know them, and thus my mindset of not wanting to associate with them went away.
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DistantMemory posted...

I've heard this before, and on this very board even. Not a true story.

Unless TC is posting the same story twice, which may well be.

maybe you need to stop being paranoid?
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