Documentary On Blacks & Race Stuns Audiences

Some examples of the "slow burn" that takes places over time......


Colloquially, black is sometimes used with a negative connotation. The reasons for this are various, but the most widely accepted explanations are that night is experienced by humans as negative and dangerous. A secondary reason is that stains are most visible as dark additions to pale materials. In traditional class-based Western cultures "pale" skin indicated genteel domestic or intellectual indoor-work as opposed to rough outdoor labor in the fields. Aspects of this black/white opposition are not unique to the West, as, for example in the Indian varna system and in Japanese Geisha makeup. African, Afro-Caribbean and African-American writers such as Frantz Fanon, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Ralph Ellison in particular identify a number of negative symbolisms surrounding the word "black", arguing that the good vs. bad dualism associated with white and black provide prejudiced connotations to color metaphors for race.
  • A "black day" (or week or month), in these cultures, would refer to a sad or tragic time. The Romans already marked fasti days with white stones and nefasti days with black.[citation needed]
  • Many poems and songs use the word black negatively (e.g. "Paint It Black" (Rolling Stones), "Baby's In Black" (Beatles), "Black Eyed Dog" (Nick Drake), " Fade to Black" (Metallica).
  • In English heraldry, black means darkness, doubt, ignorance, and uncertainty. (The American Girls Handy Book, p. 370)
  • Black is often a color of mourning. Historically, widows and widowers were often expected to wear black.
  • Black comedy is a form of comedy dealing with morbid and serious topics.
  • Black magic is an evil form of magic, often connected with death.
  • A blacklist is a list of undesirable persons or entities (to be placed on the list is said to be "blacklisted", or alternatively "blackballed").
  • Evil witches are stereotypically dressed in black and good fairies in white. Melodrama villains are dressed in black and heroines in white dresses. In many Hollywood Westerns, bad cowboys wear black hats while the good ones wear white. Funeral dress is black, wedding gowns are white.
  • In computer security, a blackhat is an attacker with evil intentions, while a whitehat bears no such ill will. (This is derived from the Western convention.)
  • The black market is used to denote the trade of illegal goods, or alternatively the illegal trade of otherwise legal items at considerably higher prices.
  • Blackmail is illegal and is perceived as immoral.
  • The black sheep of the family is the ne'er-do-well.
  • The infamous "black hole of Calcutta."
  • A black mood is a bad one (e.g. Winston Churchill's depression, which he called "my black dog").[1]
  • A black cat is superstitiously considered bad luck and linked with death.
  • If you sink the black eight-ball in billiards before all others are out of play, you lose (The ball with which you sink all others is the white cue ball). However, sinking the black ball on the opening shot results in an automatic win.
  • A black mark against you is a bad thing.
  • A black-hearted person is mean and unloving.
  • Black propaganda is the use of known falsehoods, partial truths, or masquerades in propaganda to confuse an opponent.
  • Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a pandemic in Europe which killed tens of millions of people.

that's just an unfortunate coinkydink. i'm sure black was a word for a color before it was applied to a race.
 
It´s not that simple. A doll is a representation of a human being. It´s not car keys. The little girl called the black doll the bad doll, then she recognized the doll looked like her. Who are 90% of the movie stars, of the heroes in the movies and TV shows, of the people they see on TV? White people.

And any attempt to change it is suddenly being "too p.c." or pandering to the minority. God forbid a kid ever see a fictional hero that looks like him.
 
Damn, that's crazy.

See, I could get in a racial debate now, but C. Lee will close this thread. :o
 
Let's be honest here... who wants a black baby?



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What sucks is that everybody is truly racist at some level on the inside.
It's like it's built-in in our genes.
 
What sucks is that everybody is truly racist at some level on the inside.
It's like it's built-in in our genes.

Then your genes sucks. I don't have genes that make me racist. All of my racism is psychological.
 
I'm an equal opportunity bigot...I dislike everyone.
 
I'm an equal opportunity bigot...I dislike everyone.

Everytime a discussion about racism comes up there's always someone that says, "I hate everyone." No, you don't.
 
Everytime a discussion about racism comes up there's always someone that says, "I hate everyone." No, you don't.

It's not that i hate everyone it's just that i hate stupid people regardless of any distinguishing feature
 
Everytime a discussion about racism comes up there's always someone that says, "I hate everyone." No, you don't.

You can't possibly be that literal. It's an obvious implication of disliking people because of their invidual personality, not their ethnicity, nationality, etc.
 
That's sad. But on the other hand, if all the black kids picked the black dolls, then people would be stunned then too.

It's like she says at the end. Hopefully there will be a time when these kids will say, "they both look the same." With these little children, they act on things other than what they have learned.
 
I think what Terry's saying is that it's so ****ing trite.
 

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