Why do white people hate black people? And why after all of these years do they continue to hate black people and other racist??
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I am sure they have the largest white fan base in the country, behind Montana. Several years back I did see a black WVU fan decked out in WVU gear at a random Marshall game (we were not playing WVU).
What makes you feel this way? Also, your question is confusing.
And why after all of these years do they continue to hate black people and other racist?
Yes why do they? Question isn't too confusing. Its just this whole race war talk, driving around in black neighborhoods with the Confederate flag draped all over their cars. The continued hatred towards Latin Americans and Muslims. But I think the white hate is coming back, I see it all the time in NY especially on Long Island
Not all but I feel that the hatred has risen in recent years I would say from about 2006 till now I have noticed it get worse and worse each year
Did you mean to write other races, rather than other racist?
Fever, you're painting with a broad brush. You can't indict the entire white race in one question. It isn't that simple and you know it. Are there a percentage of people that hate blacks? Sure. But by the same token there are a percentage of blacks that hate whites. It would be interesting to know which group is actually higher. I would say that indoctrination and lack of education is the root of hatred and prejudice on both sides.
If a white person walks through a high crime black neighborhood and crosses the street or shifts their purse to their other shoulders when some young black kids walk by, are they prejudiced or prudent? If a white person that was born 100 years after slavery and 50 years after desegregation claims they aren't responsible for the hatred of the past and takes offense to being held accountable, are they prejudiced? If a white person criticizes a black culture that produces the highest percentage of unwed mothers, are they prejudiced for calling attention to something that is statistically true?
You can't throw the entire race into the bin of hatred. It is intellectually lazy and creates part of the backlash that you are confusing with class hatred. Prejudice most surely exists. It is generational and has it roots in a centuries old injustice and the backlash in this countries struggle to correct it. But if all whites hated blacks we wouldn't have a black president. We aren't there but strides have been made.
But it's going to take a combination of two things to continue the progress...it's going to take the continued turnover and education of the lingering pockets of generational hatred among whites and it's going to take a black community that doesn't continue to lay the blame of oppression at the feets of an entire white race. Quite frankly, blacks need to do their part as well. They need to end the culture of guns, out of wedlock pregnancies, and the culture of violence that exists among their own. Because I'm quite sure I had nothing to do with that.
I was raised by a father who despised prejudice. He wouldn't tolerate that from me or my brothers. My dad used to drive into the poor black neighborhood in St.Albans and set up promising kids in the WV National Guards Youth Leader Camps. He would pick them up and drive them to football practice. We just weren't raised to be prejudiced and we aren't.
Yet as I type this post I fear the backlash of being labeled prejudiced even when I'm not, just because I speak honestly. Quite frankly, I believe that ending prejudice will take a great leap forward when blacks and whites can point out the faults in each other because what we say has merit, and do so without the fear of being labeled a hater by a society that gets it kicks out of public humiliations. I hate the confederate flag toting idiots just as much as you do. But they certainly don't represent the entire white race and they certainly don't speak for me.
If a white person walks through a high crime black neighborhood and crosses the street or shifts their purse to their other shoulders when some young black kids walk by, are they prejudiced or prudent? If a white person that was born 100 years after slavery and 50 years after desegregation claims they aren't responsible for the hatred of the past and takes offense to being held accountable, are they prejudiced? If a white person criticizes a black culture that produces the highest percentage of unwed mothers, are they prejudiced for calling attention to something that is statistically true?
You can't throw the entire race into the bin of hatred. It is intellectually lazy and creates part of the backlash that you are confusing with class hatred. Prejudice most surely exists. It is generational and has it roots in a centuries old injustice and the backlash in this countries struggle to correct it. But if all whites hated blacks we wouldn't have a black president. We aren't there but strides have been made.
But it's going to take a combination of two things to continue the progress...it's going to take the continued turnover and education of the lingering pockets of generational hatred among whites and it's going to take a black community that doesn't continue to lay the blame of oppression at the feets of an entire white race. Quite frankly, blacks need to do their part as well. They need to end the culture of guns, out of wedlock pregnancies, and the culture of violence that exists among their own. Because I'm quite sure I had nothing to do with that.
I was raised by a father who despised prejudice. He wouldn't tolerate that from me or my brothers. My dad used to drive into the poor black neighborhood in St.Albans and set up promising kids in the WV National Guards Youth Leader Camps. He would pick them up and drive them to football practice. We just weren't raised to be prejudiced and we aren't.
Yet as I type this post I fear the backlash of being labeled prejudiced even when I'm not, just because I speak honestly. Quite frankly, I believe that ending prejudice will take a great leap forward when blacks and whites can point out the faults in each other because what we say has merit, and do so without the fear of being labeled a hater by a society that gets it kicks out of public humiliations. I hate the confederate flag toting idiots just as much as you do. But they certainly don't represent the entire white race and they certainly don't speak for me.
Haven't you learned now fever that there are no racists in New York. And your question is stupid and you know it. Of course there are white people that hate blacks. There are black people that hate white people. Honestly I think some of the hatred is self induced in both sides.
No offense taken. Not sure if it's changed, but there use to be a lot of black kids that lived in a small area known as Amandaville. St. Albans wasn't and isn't home to a large black population, but there were probably 15-20 black kids in the youth football program that my father founded and coached in for 20 years. Not sure that changes anything. Are you saying that taking an interest in these kids has less value in a largely white community? Not sure where you're going with that.
One thing that was heartening to me is that when my father died last August, tons of people showed up at his viewing that he coached years earlier. Several were black. He was respected among the black community.
I am not trying to devalue what your father did at all, I think it is great and it is obvious those he mentored greatly appreciated his generosity and care. I was just curious when you mentioned the black neighborhood because St. Albans does not currently have a large black population and I was not sure if they did back in the day. That is all, I am not trying to detract from what he did by any means.
I didn't take it that way at all, 06. Actually, the fact that I have to temper my criticism with a defense of my upbringing points to a large problem when discussing race as a white person. We have to go out of the way to prove our motivation for criticizing an element of the black community isn't rooted in prejudice. I shouldn't have to do that. My dad had nothing to do with the points I am trying to make. Just me trying to avoid the "racist" label.
