Comments by "R K." (@DarkAngel2512) on "Do White People Experience Racism? | Middle Ground" video.

Can I ask when you started to believe white people cant experience racism? Do you live in America. I'm from UK and grew up with black people and we never had this concept here until social media connected us with Americans. I think I heard it for the first time around 2011ish. Maybe a bit later. It was strange to me as none of the black people I know said anything remotely like this. There was never the false premise that if someone is a minority or from a lower class bracket that they're more likely to be discriminated. I try to cling on to what I knew to bw truth before social media indoctrination. Its very Orwellian how we're believing things we didnt before. Like saying men can be women. If its racist when done to a black person then its racist when done to a white person. Regardless of the country or demographic make up. I wish everyone would go back to remembering this. How can reality change in such a short span of time. Its alarming.
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@banehelsing7541 that's not the definition of appropriation. And every human being adopts cultural aspects without acknowledging where theyre from because kost of the time we dont know or arwnt told or theyee so mainstream we wouldnt know. Did you know hair buns are supposedly Greek in origin? When did you learn pasta was Italian? Does it matter? And inherent culture has nothing done with cultural appropriaiton. It's the opposite. appropriation is to make another culture your own this it isnt inherent. No culture is inherent. Every single human appropriates others cultural practices and they become part of that culture thus our own culture. I'm sorry you have been caught up in part of this racist ideology. Get well soon.
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@banehelsing7541 but the idea of cultural appropriaiton being wrong is racist. Every human culturally appropriates.
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I'd recommend watching the recent video circulating of the Asian dude headed "What are we doing to white people?". Its been making an impact.
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@xylek9483 that's sad that you thought that wasnt racism or put up with that. I had black friends make racist comments and I always knew it was racist. Was actually surprised when one of them settled down with a white woman.
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@OneeAndOnly when you say black people dont know their roots I think you should clarify "black Americans". By the way many people dont know their roots. I'm white and dont know where I'm originally from. Dont know my dad and mum doesnt know her mum. Think I'm quarter or less than that Scottish. That's about all I know. And its quite irrelavant to be honest. What does knowing where I'm from genetically do for me. Black Americans tend to place so much emphasis on their ancestors culture instead of their own culture. America has its own black culture that is unique and has influenced the globe. Embrace that identity and be proud of it. You prob wouldnt relate to your ancestors tribe anyway. Same as I dont relate to Scotland in any way.
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Being a minority isnt relevant to whether you experience racism or not. That's some new fangled definition of racism. You can be the majority or minority. Its irrelavant.
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@thbwdzzz5010 that isnt the definition of racism and you have a weak mind if you can have a longstanding word redefined to you in such a short space of time. Thankfully the general population go by the longstanding definition and not this weird woke academic version some racist professors conjured up.
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@thbwdzzz5010 you're wrong. I'm not American. 😂😂 And I literally dont understand your comment about "ignoring humanities" and what that's in reference to.
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@Nicholenickinicscott well said
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@Shante-330 when I was 17 I literally thought the words "my life would be easier if I was black" due to the racism I experienced. It's a feeling you grow to live with but I thought this again recently a few years ago because of how bad race relations are. It's going to be even worse now that there is a role reversal in terms of how demonized white people are these days. People of all races have thought this way. Its just not something we spoke about growing up as we werent political until social media made us. We lived quietly with our insecurities. Got on with it. We were actually much stronger then as this stuff wasnt so much of an issue. We've made race issues front and centre and heightend them.
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Really depends what those individuals parent instilled in them. Could be the reverse opinions but white/black parents.
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@teehee5700 being a minority isnt why you exprienced racism. Anyone can experience it whether you're the majority or minority.
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@yagurlvae401 its only been the last few years schools have taught white people cant experience racism. That's the false history. Its always been that anyone can. Its alarming people can be so taken in by a very new definition.
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@drew9453 so if you agree culture is based on shared values and not race then how can I be guilty of cultural appropriation in the way people keep racially defining it? How can it even be something to be guilty of. I engage in the culture of those within my environment. My culture.
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@dallastyree5079 100× this.
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@banehelsing7541 I'm using the dictionary def aswell as etymological. You're using the academic definition. There is nothing wrong with practicing other groups' cultural practices. All humans do it. We learn to copy as babies. You have been radicalised. I've been canerowing my hair for 30 years and only now it's a problem because some racist Americans say so. It's my culture even more so than many black people as I've been practicing those hairstyles longer. Although time is irrelavant. You can pick up things from others at any point and make it habit. And the fact you used the term "minorities" is quite telling that you've been radicalised.
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I'm white and wanted to be black and asian. It's more common than you think. But I guess because black people tie up so much more politics to their race they feel more of a way about it
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@tesiatalks its funny you mention how you felt you didnt fit in and werent "black enough" by others standards and tried to fit in by changing yourself. I'm white and grew up with black people so naturally acted like those I hung out with and the media Inwas influenced by. Then a couple of my black friends made digs that I "thought I was black" because I "listened to black music and could do the dance steps". And calling me "wigga". Ironcially the dance step comment was a compliment but it gave me a complex to this day. 30 years later. When I was 17 I wanted to be black as I thought my life would be easier and I would be allowed to be myself without judgement. That I could speak, style and dance how I wanted without my race being used as a disqualifier. So to this day I censor myself like you did to be accepted. I had to "act more white" to be accepted by my black friends. But that's not me being me. In my head I speak way more Jamaican patois. I did dance class as a child so dancing is my everything and my self-expression. I'm a female who loves to play with my hair and can canerow my own hair and would love to wear wigs like black girls wear but feel I cant as that's a "black thing" ironcially though that the wigs are "white-looking". Its mad because it comes from a place of admiration or simply who I am yet its demonized and people cant just be themselves because racist individuals expect you to fit in your box as if your race should define you. Race is nothing. Culture is everything. I am what I grew with and was influenced by. I feel suffocated not being able to just be who I am because narrow minded, uneducated people think you act according to your race. Which is pretty racist.
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@johnmendoza2021 mixed people who grow up in a white household will be missing a great portion of their black side. My white friend fortunately had her Jamaican ex teach her how to cook. I dont think she knew how to care 100% correctly for the girls hair. I used to canerow her daughters hair but even I wasnt sure about all the products. She would use one pink lotion on her hair and cocoa butter but it just seemed basic. And the kids had Jamaican culture around them as its common in UK. But still it's not the birad culture you get when your parent is speaking patois daily and you're getting the real vibes and history in the house
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@Shante-330 I'm from UK and you're wrong. Race issues didnt exist here. Racism existed but we disnt have a focus on it. And in typical racist fashion you claim I have t experienced racism. And this is why racism wont end due to people like you. Thanks for importing your woke rubbish to UK and effing up our amazing race relations. Tell me how does it feel to be a racist?
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@swagdonor2357 the people who bullied her.
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@newyorka7 just to clarify race in the scientific context isnt based on haplogroups, but socially it is. In science there is only one race in humans. Humans themselves. Haplogroups would be akin to breed.
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@angelica69 being a minority does NOT mean there will always be racism atall. It doesnt matter if you're the minority or majority. Neither are relevant to if racism occurs. That's been a new qualifier recently included a few years ago. Did we all forget the definition of racism so quickly?
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@angelica69 you said being a minority that there will "always be racism" and you will "likely be subject to racism". This is completely false. Being a minority does not automatically result in either of these things. Its individual circumstance. Not about population demographics. Never has been. That's been conjured up the last few years. I'm not falling for Orwellian newspeak by racist academics with an agenda. I refuse to reinforce an out and out lie
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@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 no. They just think you're wrong. As do many black folk. But nice bit of racism there.
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@seventeenseventythirteen7465 white privelege isnt real. Sorry you got duped into believing it is.
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@seventeenseventythirteen7465 no it isnt. And most black people dont think like you. I'm sorry social media brainwashed you kids the last ten years.
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