I received this email and thought it made some interesting/valid points, I did however hesitate to send it onto anyone. I don't like to stir controversy but I just couldn't shake some of the truth that the original author speaks of. So I pass it on to you for consideration.
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, Native Americans, etc. And then there are just Americans.
You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You Call me "White boy," "Cracker," "Honkey," "Whitey," "Caveman" and that's OK.
But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towelhead, Sand-nigger, camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink you call me a racist.
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 T elevision) 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?
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, car jack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white Police officer shoots a black gang member or beat s 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 email.
Let's see which of you are proud enough to forward it.
I'm ashamed that someone from my family would forward something like this. I feel that if I don't respond in some manner that this person would believe that I share the same thoughts. I'll have to spend some time thinking this over before I send anything in response. It will have to be carefully worded and all considering who it is. This topic seems to be coming up an awful lot lately. Maybe that is good, a chance to grow? Suggestions are welcome.
I will firstly admit that the e-mail does make some good points that I have heard lots of times before. Somepeople would stongly agree and disagree about those points. But the thing to remember is that it is a chain e-mail and maybe nothing more then just that. Not really sure if you should advance it or hit reply back and give your own thoughts on each of the lines.
My general thoughts are this. The chain letter is flawed in that it dosn't address Historical power of the ruling class. In other words it dosn't mention the government and other industries are mostly run by whites. It also dosn't mention privlages whites have and the power that goes along with that.
The other flaw is that the letter assumes blacks and others arn't racist. That is not true at all. I have heard stuff come out of blacks, puerto ricans and whites that is racist. I can remember this spanish Bus Driver and white guy on the bus joking around about there where no cats in the Neihboorhood as they would go past a Vietamse store on Niagara st. They didn't even have the sterotype right. Some blacks think that they can't be racist and that is incorrect. Just because someone is opressed dosn't mean that they can't oppresse someone else.
Not sure if what I wrote helps at all but maybe it does.
hasn't this person ever heard of a "european american"? i thought that was the "proper" term for us craker-folk!
And, anyway, it's okay to be proud of who you are, no matter what color your skin is.
Whoever got the thing forwarded to them should know that what one person says or does has no bearing on what YOU say or do.
If you're going to talk to your family member about it, I wouldn't recommend doing anything that would only strengthen their feelings of, cough, white persecution.