violence, not racism. anger, not honor.

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/White_Teen_Attacked_by_Two_Men_Because_of_Slavery

so they're talking in this article about a black man and filipono man who beat / tortured / insulted a white teenage boy for four hours. they say its "race related" because the guys brought up "slavery..."

to me its just absolute nonsense to take these guys for what they say they are. instead we should look at it as a simple case of deviance. these fuckers are people who just hardcore have anger issues, have no respect for fellow human beings, and are not safe for society. these are the types of people that should be locked up and re--educated, or perhaps if found hopeless, then just left locked away. the reason why is they are a threat to law-abiding citizens. you cannot simply let your anger manifest itself upon other people. you cannot simply let your anger out on other folk.you need to let shit go and deal with people in a more realistic way. the disease of anger spreads from father to son, mother to daughter, and people need ways to see that anger is not the right response to a situation. we can't be violent either, there's only three circumstances violence is worthwhile, when life limb or property are threatened. as far as we can tell none of these occured in this situation therefore these guys have no use for their violence. it was violence that was un-justly enacted and by harming other individual they brand themselves as criminals. the idiocy of trying to decry the horribleness of a past crime on past people and then go on to commit a crime of your own making yourself into a criminal is thick. if you truly have issue with crime, start by not perpetuating it unto others. dumbasses who really at their core simply have anger problems that need to be treated. you cannot treat other people in that way. and by flinging the basic tenants of decency aside they pave the way for their own social isolation.

a racioulicious response

". I don’t consider myself a Latin American actress. I was born and raised here, and I have Cuban parents, but for me, I am the new American girl. It’s not only Drew Barrymore and the blond Midwestern girl. This, she says, extracting her finger from the ice to point to her face, 'this is also what we look like now.'”"

"As someone who made the opposite move from you, I can second that “which is better, north or south of the border?” thing…Though I tend to be much harder on Canada because I feel like Canada often gets credit for being way more progressive than it truly is.
As for Little Mosque on the Prairie, I know a lot of people who have mixed feelings about it. When it first came out, me and a lot of my friends were really excited. But I actually don’t find it very funny, alas.
This whole convo made me think of the Goodness Gracious Me, the English sitcom about an Indian family…I wish there was something like that on American TV. The interesting thing is that the impression I get [(from having spent brief periods of time there and being half-English (ie ethnically and nationally)] is that the UK is more overtly racist than Canada or the US. So I feel like gauging social attitudes based on TV may be somewhat complex. Sort of like how we can’t draw a straight line between a black president in the US and an overall less racist culture."

"As for England, that’s an interesting perspective — I spent part of my childhood in Kilburn, London, which as you may know was and still is fairly ethnically diverse (now gentrifying, unfortunately). But I went to school in Hampstead, which is more posh. After the kids got over the novelty of my American accent, the white kids didn’t talk to me any more (pretty blatantly), and my only friends were the two Indian girls and the other Black kid in my class. The racism was thick! "

at the same time you cant just sit there and talk about children's racism and stuff... when your personality is most likely nonexistent and all you essentially have to offer is your physical being. therefore racism amongst children i feel is more acceptable than racism amongst adults, however some adults do behave like children, which gets us into our current state of affairs.

another thing... you can't just explore india, and indian culture, themes etc, when dealing with pepole who happen to have ancestry hailing from te indian subcontinent... there are brown people with a world of diverse experiences... its rediculous to stand back and do all this belly-aching and nay-saying when the bottom line is we are intrinsically apart of the problem. there needs to be acceptance of "non-traditional" lifestyles fro mbrown people, within the brown communities. i say brown because "indian" is quite frankly offensive. there is no need to attribute my fucking orientation with regards to fucking south-asian politics. i have none. ive visited on holiday india, much like many white people do, but my brown-ness or my ancestors geo-political origin has notihng to do with my own experience, my own raised-in culture-s, and my own worldview, which i determine, not my skin color; even with tradition, i was raised with a few options, that of india, england, and sikh, as well as christian, and traditional/conservative. some of these i kept, some of these weren't me. i define mmyself, not my skin defining me. im in control here, not my body-casing shell.

"This phenomenon has more to do with the global economy than the assimilation of Indian Americans or whatnot."

"I’m not impressed with Indians being trendy."

indians dont fucking exist. youre brown, if you choose to describe yourself by physical attribute, but beyond that... youre just a fucking huma nbeing, youre capable of going in any direction, and even if you have had steering early on, as an adult, all that falls by the wayside and youre left to exploer this big beautiful world in whichever way you see fit. thats the beauty of free will. stop acting like it doesnt exist .and stop acting like every brown skinned kid with parents born in india are destined to be clones of those parents. use your imagination. there doesnt have to be only one primary teacher toa child. and you can always elect to find direction in your life elsewhere. some people dont consider their parents to be the end all be all gods of the universe like some of yo useem to describe your own lives as. its easy to see then how a brown skin can find cultural icons and achievements and orient their life around that, becoming very oriented around that culture or cultures and then essentially being "of the people" rather than "of the family." fucking wake up and stpo being absolutely fucking nuts. idiotic pieces of shit. fucking rediculous. indians dont exist! theyrer fucking bogeymen you make up to make yourselves feel better. but the truth is yourer brown, as a skin reference onl, and the brain remains grey and open to persuation, form any category and angle. so dont fucking keep harping on about the mental similarities ofbrown skins, just stop it, youre not ever going to make it work, so just sotp it, please .its just as bad as these gener reassignment loonies. thinking they have to "normalize" the fringe. fucking get ooff it. eventually you'll find your popular-caucus of indian born brown skins will dwindle within a generation or two. let them die off and youll find nothing left of your precious "Indian" culture. it will be reduced to sheer homogenousness, with the culture being avalable to all but not necessarily forced upon any, and that i believe is the best way to be, how all cutlure should be handled. let it be out there, but do not fucking brand people with your dogma, ethics, politics, or anything else. fucking leave people the fuck alone, there is a freedom screaming to be let out. absolutely fucking rediculous. and anyone who feels that Indians do exist, OUTSIDE OF FUCKING INDIA, make me sick. fucking nonsense spewing fools of far fetched ideas and absolutey insanity for brains. can't be trusted, should be avoided, and certainly aren't worth listeing to. so fuck off. absolutely fucking weirdo loonie brain-dead dumbass.

http://www.racialicious.com/2010/06/15/whats-behind-the-south-asian-boom-on-tv/#comments