Is there a racial double standard in the USA

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Try walking into a black neighborhood unvited as a white man and see what happens. As a white man walk into an all black neighborhood and see what happens. The racism and the impact of that racism is just as bad as the black man walking into a racist white neighborhood.

I don't buy that. I lived in a black neighborhood for 14 years and people were freindly. We used to play baseball in our front yard. Maybe I am relying too much on personal experience here.

Again racism is racism no matter what the reason. Racism from a group of the population that makes up a total of about 26% of the total is still just as great of an impact of the racism from the group that is about 60% of the population.

Again all racism is the same - regardless of who does it. The impact of that racism might be different.

That's too simple for me. The racism of today is small compared to what it used to be. I think you know what I mean when you speak of impact, that is what really matters. There's no law against being racist, just on acting on it.

What is even more is that you seem to be condoning reverse racism - yet saying real racism is bad. I think you do not understand what racism is or what it does. When you reverse racism - ie blacks being racist against whites - it continues the pattern of racism - and the impact on the individual is exactly the same.

I'm not condoning reverse racism. I think there is a double standard: whites are being held to a higher standard. That is only fitting for a majority, especially given our history.

BTW the term "reverse racism" makes no sense at all. Before you said that about "blacks being racist against whites" I assumed you meant whites being racist against whites for fear of being seen as racist against blacks which is what the term would imply, some kind of reverse. Why don't you just say "Racism" since all racism is racism.

The fact is people will very eagerly degrade someone if they are given the ok by someone in authority. As in the "brown eyes, blue eyes" experiment. This is why "n--" is taboo while "whitey" is not. I could care less if someone calls me "whitey". There is no history behind it and to call double standard is petty.

It strikes me as odd that there have been several threads with people complaining about the double standards of stand up comedians and none on the KKK. Priorities out of whack. I just can't see affirmitive action and "we can't insult them" as the terrible injustices they are being held up as.