Racist?

So the below comment someone shared via Facebook - I found it quite racist and stated that to the person.  To me it seems like the most pointless comment but a few people I know agreed with it.  Racism is in all communities and I don’t think the below comment helps the situation it just widens the gap that so many are working hard at to close.

PROUD TO BE WHITE"

This is great. I have been wondering about why Whites are racists, and no other race is......

Michael Richards makes his point........................
Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good point.

This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his comedy act. He makes some very interesting points...

Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to this? There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.

And then there are just Americans.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you.. so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have the NAACP. You have BET. If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.

If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that??

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You know we'd be racists.

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US ... Yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud...... But you call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this message.. Let's see which of you are proud enough to send it on. I sadly don't think many will. That's why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won't stand up for ourselves!

BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!

It's not a crime YET... but getting very close!

I think people don't realise that the above organisations are needed for the Black/ Hispanic communities to receive Equal Rights.

Also the comment about 'the Black history month’ its one month in the whole academic year for black history, which is a big part of the history of Black and White Americans, so why shouldn't it be taught?

That's just one comment there is so much of this that I could rip apart but people will have their views, all I can do is be a good human being and represent my Asian community to the best of my ability to remove peoples stereotypes.

Brown Skin

I was recently having a discussion with one of my friends about skin tone.

I have brown skin and I was trying to explain that I like to be a certain shade of brown - LIGHT BROWN.  Before you all jump at me its just how I feel myself I'm not trying to say about different people, everyone has different opinions.

It was a sunny day in England today, which if you are from England you will know is a blessing and I wrote a status saying 'hello sunshine please snow'.  I did this mainly as a joke and then I explained to my friend that I don't like it too sunny as my skin gets too dark and I like being light skin.

Now if I think about this, its a Asian community thing and I know lots of people from African and Caribbean communities who also say that they have the same thing in their communities.  Light skin is seen as beautiful and dark skin is seen as less beautiful; everyone famous in Bollywood is light skin, everyone famous in Pakistani communities is light skin.  Even if we look at our black superstars so many of them are light skin or a lighter skin tome and even dark skinned people are made to be light skin.

There were even rumors of the realest female singer India Arie having skin bleaching and she is the last person who I thought would fall to the pressures of the industry.  Then we have more blatant skin bleachers like Micheal Jackson and the rest of the Jackson clan who have had so much surgery that they have lost all their beautiful African features.  In our Asian communities skin bleach products are rife with so many wanting to be light skin as this in our communities is the definition of beauty.  The lighter you are the more beautiful you supposedly are.  Lightenex by pharma clinics and Fair and Lovely are two of the biggest brands and I'm sure its a multi-million pound business.

Me personally, which I was trying to explain to my friend, has fallen for this media and community pressure.  I am far from vain and far from the best looking person in the planet but I don't like it when I get too much of a tan.  I love the tan look of Mediterranean models and would love my skin to be that color but I'm  a whole different shade of brown.  I know there are plenty of beautiful dark skin people like Naomi Campbell, Tyrese, Brandy, Kajol, Kelly Rowland etc

But I dunno why I don't like my skin when i get too dark...

Is this showing the media control of defining what beauty is?

Is this because of the community views? (no one says it but we all know they are there)

Is this showing that the western image of beauty that was enforced on us for years, is still there at the back of our minds?

I know skin tone doesn't matter but this is a issue that not just me but so many people have about trying not to get too dark.  I would never bleach my skin or get surgery but I know people who have.

  I love people for who they are and the personalities that they bring to the table not there skin tone but when it comes to myself i like the shade of brown I am and secretly crave a lighter tone (not to light as I like being brown).  Is this wrong?

Lauren Booth

Her stories are beautiful!