Here's A Guide To Tell If White Males (and others) Are Racist Or Not !!!

[WillyT]

Poll question: Here's A Guide To Tell If White Males (and others) Are Racist Or Not !!!

Premise: Believe for a moment, that there is an actual medical procedure, or pharmaceutical drug, that could magically transport a human from being one race to the next, and not only that, one gender to the next.

Please select one of the following:

[Bicoastal]

1. This is the silliest poll I've ever seen.

I'd be yo mama, so I could spank the hell out of you.

[WillyT]

4. I Don't Take It Silly Much...

There are a whole lotta people out there who would not know how to function in life if they woke up one day Black, and\or female.


:shrug:

[silverojo]

11. This poll, itself, is kinda sexist

There are no questions a female of ANY race can answer! :(

[BlooInBloo]

2. mmmm... All the sex I wanted on the one hypothesis...

lol!

[donco6]

3. I don't even get it.

I'm a gay male and I wouldn't trade it for anything. So there!

[WillyT]

5. Apparently... You Got It !!!

:applause:

[LSK]

14. yeah me too

What does "Yo mother" mean and why would I want to change myself???

:shrug:

[Schema Thing]

6. I chose to be a woman...

...but truth be known, I've probably always placed too much emphasis on sex. :blush:

[Journeyman]

7. Why would I choose to be anything or anyone other than who I am? . . .

Whatever or whoever that may be. . .

How can my being comfortable with myself be a reflection of any attitudes toward others?

[Marrah_G]

8. This is just wrong. n/t

[WillyT]

13. Why ??? - Please Explain !!!

Over the years I've seen many a pointy headed white male talk about how they are dismissed and marginalized because the minorities and women have all the power and rights.

It HAS GOT TO BE NEWS to the millions of women and minorities, that they have it so so much better than the white folk in this country.

And BTW, I'm a white male.

:shrug:

[DemBones DemBones]

9. The artist Faith Ringgold did a project on her website asking

people to imagine that the next day, if white, they woke up black, or, if black, they woke up white. There were then a series of questions like who would you tell first and how would you tell them, what did you think would be positives of belonging to the other race, what did you think would be negatives of belonging to the other race. It was a very interesting exercise, may still be up at her site, with all the responses.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Dupe -- stuttering computer

[Lars39]

12. Caught part of a wonderful movie the other week...A Family Thing

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116275/

It didn't take a drug or procedure...just finding out about his actual birth mother.

[ComerPerro]

15. Is there something inherently wrong with wanting to remain a white male?

What the fuck is the point of this poll?

[WillyT]

16. No Man... It's The Safest Place To Be...

:shrug:

[ComerPerro]

18. and so what is this poll supposed to prove? Because I don't want to be a black woman, I am racist?

[MedleyMisty]

21. No

Think about why you don't want to be a black woman. Is it because you'd lose the privileges that come with being a white male and instead have to put up with a lot of shit based on your skin pigments and reproductive system?

That's the point of the poll. To get people to think about institutional racism and white privilege. At least that's what I'm guessing. Am I right?

[WillyT]

24. You Are Exactly Right, And Thank You !!!

Of course I have the same problem with males going ballistic in their opposition to abortion, but that would be another thread, LOL.

:hi:

[ComerPerro]

25. I don't want to be a woman any more than most women want to be men

[mondo joe]

28. Does that mean women want to be men? Or black people want to be white?

Hm?

[ComerPerro]

30. exactly, its getting into some very sick areas of discussion

[Bicoastal]

17. I don't see myself as a white male.

I see myself as ME. Isn't that how it should be?

[ComerPerro]

19. and yet did you see that option anywhere? I want to know the posters motivation

[WillyT]

22. Did You Read Post #13 ???

I'm comfortable being a white male too. But I also damned well know what an advantage that is. And I get real fucking tired of white males (not you) trying to dismiss the crap people of color, and opposite gender, have to put up with in this country.

[ComerPerro]

26. well, you really need to work on your phrasing.

[fortyfeetunder]

20. You left one category out

There is a procedure -- though superficial at best

it's called a SUNTAN!

[Bluebear]

23. I don't get it.

Sorry :(

[Catherine Vincent]

27. What's that saying...

Everybody wants to be Irish on St. Patrick's day but nobody would never want to be Black during Black History month.

[JVS]

29. What about black people and women, does this mean they all want to be white and men?

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

31. "Yo mother"

I guess? :shrug: