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Reverse racism
Ed, I’m outraged by the recent AP story in The Trentonian, “A Call To Action,” where Philadephia’s police chief calls for 10,000 black men to help patrol the city’s streets to quell crime and violence. It sounds a bit racist, or reverse racism. What if I’m white and I want to go out and clean up their streets, I can’t do it because I’m white. I think that’s unfair. I hope we can shed some light on this and bring it to the attention of more people because this is an atrocity and an insult to white people all over the place.
Whitey
Why doesn’t everyone just get a grip and stop seeing everything through racial lines? Who cares if the chief wants to recruit black cops to work in predominantly black neighborhoods?— Ed. Note
posted by Trentonian Editor at
11:09 AM
2 Comments:
I don't agree with your use of the expression "reverse racism" to qualify the attitude of Philadephia’s police chief . I think it's more appropriate to talk about "anti-white racism". the "reverse racism" expression actually promotes racist stereotypes against white people. Saying "reverse racism" implies there is a "norm" in racism (white people's racism toward other racial groups) and that racism is, somehow, a "white thing", which is wrong and prejudiced.
Please see my page : reverse racism Vs anti-white racism
Reverse racism, in my opinion, is the single biggest factor standing in the way of the abolition of racism in this country. While most African Americans will stand by and deny it, this country has indeed come a long way since Dr. King. The institutionalized discrimination that existed pre-1960's has been largely eradicated. The pendulum has swung. Blacks are getting access to jobs, education, and just about anything else they want. But once on the job, they have to do the work - at the same level of productivity and efficiency as their white counterpart. Once they get to college, they have to study, learn, and produce evidence of their educational advancement - just like the white students. Rather than complain about the situation that they find themselves in, despite what I believe is access to mainstream America with all of its benefits, is they need to begin to take responsibility for themselves. The African American community in this country, even their most ardent spokespersons, are loosing all credibility with their rantings about how unfairly they are still being treated. O.J. is not inocent. Michael Vick should be ashamed of himself, and while Martin Lee Anderson's death is by any interpretation of the facts, a trajedy, if the medical evidence that was analyzed does not bear out evidence of murder, then he was not murdered, whether he is white, black, or Chinese. At some point, objective proof has to trump emotional machinations.
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