Interesting cartoon photo on discrimination...
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@ quien? If me, then YES... It is.
lol. :lick: j/p. I took that in the dark w/ my friend a while back... Needless to say we were bored/high/possibly drunk. The picture turned out like a negative of a negative photo. Looked like one of those Blackface/Vaudeville characters. Funny thing is she's Filipino but almost turned out as dark as me in that flick. Ahh, good times. Those Easy, Summer days are a thing of the past.
Sup wit' Sade, tho? What's she doin'?
lol. :lick: j/p. I took that in the dark w/ my friend a while back... Needless to say we were bored/high/possibly drunk. The picture turned out like a negative of a negative photo. Looked like one of those Blackface/Vaudeville characters. Funny thing is she's Filipino but almost turned out as dark as me in that flick. Ahh, good times. Those Easy, Summer days are a thing of the past.
Sup wit' Sade, tho? What's she doin'?
To call this a 'concise history on black-white race relations in the U.S.' is a bit of a far stretch for me.
If anything, this cartoon is a perfect representation on what slavery did for the whites in power during the 19th century. If you read hard enough in to it, maybe you could compare it to the hip hop industry and how rich white guys make plenty of cash off of selling a product made predominantly by blacks.
but in all honesty, in my 21 years on this earth, never have I been in the position to where I stepped on any man's toes (black or white) to get to where I am today, nor have I refused a helping hand to anyone that needed my help.
So maybe it's just me, but I feel cartoons such as this one is what keep the 'us vs. them' mentality in so many American minds.
If anything, this cartoon is a perfect representation on what slavery did for the whites in power during the 19th century. If you read hard enough in to it, maybe you could compare it to the hip hop industry and how rich white guys make plenty of cash off of selling a product made predominantly by blacks.
but in all honesty, in my 21 years on this earth, never have I been in the position to where I stepped on any man's toes (black or white) to get to where I am today, nor have I refused a helping hand to anyone that needed my help.
So maybe it's just me, but I feel cartoons such as this one is what keep the 'us vs. them' mentality in so many American minds.
you don't have to actively say fuck those blacks let me step on them to get where I'm goin, certain forces have done that for a lot of white people, and they don't even know it. For example, when the GI's got back from WWII alot of suburban homes had been built for the soldiers, but racist practices by both the fed. government and real estate agents shunned blacks away from the new houses which they sold to the white ethnic GI's and placed the blacks in the newly erected projects. So what happens in the next generation? The sons of the Jews, Italians, Polish, Irish, Greek's, etc. have a wealth base due to the equity and so on their parents were able to secure in procuring good housing, while the blacks don't have shit cuz they live in the projects they were pushed to, and live check by check.
That's just one example, of one sector blacks face/faced institutional racism in leading to a disparity between the races, and resentment. But you didn't know that, lot of people don't know this kind of shit, you have to read and study, go to college take a special course, etc.. Because this unfair treatment is not out in the open the races drift apart, not the other way around. Because even though we might not see it we feel it.
That's just one example, of one sector blacks face/faced institutional racism in leading to a disparity between the races, and resentment. But you didn't know that, lot of people don't know this kind of shit, you have to read and study, go to college take a special course, etc.. Because this unfair treatment is not out in the open the races drift apart, not the other way around. Because even though we might not see it we feel it.
