racism

[Desert Reign]

Well, OK. But if your town had a sign like this hanging over the main street, would there be any need at all to take it down?

Personally, I wouldn't live there if that was their attitude.

 

[Tambora]

you seem to be wanting people to take offense...Why?

I am asking others if they read it as being offensive.

Is it offensive to you?

 

[Tambora]

that makes sense - we have mucklands like that where they grow onion and cabbage

The soil is called blackland because of it's color - black.

what did "the whitest people" refer to?

honesty?
integrity?
straight-shooting?

That's the million dollar question.
:think:

 

[resodko]

bottomlands near Oswego that i used to drive past all the time:

Spoiler

 

[Desert Reign]

Yeah it's pretty obvious that you grew up in a predominately (i'd have to saw almost exclusively) white area because you really have no clue at all about what means to be non-white in America.

So what? We all have experiences and culture from our youth. Do you have experience of what it means to be Christian in Iraq?
Do you?

And it is sadly no surprise that you have issues with most every minority

It's better to have issues with minorities than with the majority. If you have issues with the majority, it just means that you have issues with more people than I do.

It sounds like you you want minorities to be "good little minorities" Minorities whose members know their place both socially -always deferring to the wonderful white man- and physically - the ghettos or just anywhere so long as it isn't in YOUR neighborhood.

Well, that's not what I said at all. Do you think that black power is ok? Do you think that Sharia law is ok? Do you think that Christians should be forced to act against their religious beliefs?

Please tell us so that we know where you stand.

So you are upset that you get the label 'bigot' applied to you here.

I am not upset about it. I have no idea where you got that from. Your prejudice shining through ever so subtly as always?

Well the label fits.

Didn't take long did it?

If you don't like it maybe you need to look at the sort of sewage you are posting here and addressing your own personal issues in this area.

I assure you that my aims are to ensure societies are stable. You are just a jealous person and want nothing but to destabilise and destroy.

 

[musterion]

I'd politely ask the nearest business proprietor, constable or citizen where the whites only facilities are. Then I'd use the facilities for "others." Then if anyone says anything, I'd tell them I'm part Jew, just to see the look on their faces.

 

[musterion]

bottomlands near Oswego that i used to drive past all the time:

Spoiler

Is that a black man driving that thing? If so, WHY IS A BLACK MAN BEING FORCED TO PICK COTTON IN THIS DAY AND AGE!?!?!?!?!1

/latte outrage

 

[resodko]

no cotton up here

them's onions

 

[rocketman]

There is a place called White Settlement, TX right outside Fort Worth, The town was named that because there were two settlements in the 1800's one was predominantly whites the other Commanche/Native American. They put it up to change the town's name in 2005 and town members struck it down approx 10 to1. Should the town change it's name?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Settlement,_Texas

 

[musterion]

no cotton up here

them's onions

Now you're just being an agrarianist.

/outrage, shakes fist, burns down 7-11

 

[This Charming Manc]

I dont know what it means or why it was put up, however I do think it has a great ability to cause offense.

If I was none white it would be make me uncomfortable and not welcome.

Is it racists I dont know, is it wise no, is it appropriate probably not.

If I lived in that town id want it taken down.

 

[Tambora]

Did I mention that Greenville was Klan territory?

 

[way 2 go]

I was born and raised in south-central TEXAS, but now live in north-east TEXAS in a town called Greenville.

This sign hung across the main street as you entered the downtown area.
It hung there until the 60's.


What would be your reaction if you drove into a town and saw this sign?

whites only

 

[PureX]

I am asking others if they read it as being offensive.

Is it offensive to you?

I doubt that at the time it was made, it was intended in any way to be racist or offensive to anyone.

There is a famous signage company in Chicago called the 'White Way' Sign Company, and every time I used to see one of their trucks, I always wondered what it was supposed to refer to. But I never assumed it was actually intended to be racist. I just figured that perhaps the original owners were named White. I don't know.

But as times have changed, and we have been made aware of our horrible racist history and the damage it's done in the past, and is still doing in the present, it does change the effect of such signs regardless of the original intent.

I think that today, such a sign should be removed even though it was not created to offend anyone. I think it would offend some people today, and I see no good reason that any town should wish to offend people as they pass through it, unless it's a town full of a****s.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Where I grew up it was a predominantly white area and indeed a predominantly white country.

But successive governments have felt so guilty about just being white that they have encouraged a great deal of immigration. Under the guise of multi-culturalism, what they have done is to introduce multi-ethnicity, which is not the same thing.

The result is that the country has undergone a loss of identity. This works if everyone else thinks the same way. The problem is that generally people do not think the same way. And that is why this attitude is naive. Emancipating black people for example is fine so long as black people themselves don't self-identify as primarily black because when they do so, what you are doing by encouraging them is giving them black power, not black quality. And there are many black people who want to take advantage of this. The same went for women. While most women are happy with equality, there are a large minority who also want female domination. Homoesexuals clearly are not content in being recognised as such but want to go further by rubbing their opponents noses in the dirt. And whilst it is great to have religious freedom, Muslims don't see it that way and most of them want to take over your country and install Sharia. In our county they have taken over school governing boards and run schools that are quite contary to the ethos of our country. Well, that has been stopped now but it took place because people were naive. It should never have been allowed to happen.

If we decide to emancipate minorities it should be made abundantly clear to them what the limits of emancipation are. But people are too scared to say that because they get accused of racism or bigotry. I don't know how many times I have been called a bigot because I happen to think homosexuality is unnatural and wrong. And I am sure I will get called a lot of things because I believe Islam is evil.

Of course a town that glories in it being white and not black is also genuine bigotry and racism but in my experience, the emancipation of minorities has given rise to a lot of problems that in most cases surface far too late to do anything about them. Take France for example. Jews are leaving the country in their droves because they did not tackle anti-semitism because they were afraid of the Muslims and now they are getting a country that is close on overrun completely and going rapidly downhill to oblivion. People need to wake up and be more realistic instead of idealistic. The only idealism that matters is what happens in reality.

Well said.

 

[Angel4Truth]

There is a place called White Settlement, TX right outside Fort Worth, The town was named that because there were two settlements in the 1800's one was predominantly whites the other Commanche/Native American. They put it up to change the town's name in 2005 and town members struck it down approx 10 to1. Should the town change it's name?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Settlement,_Texas

No.

 

[IMJerusha]

I was born and raised in south-central TEXAS, but now live in north-east TEXAS in a town called Greenville.

This sign hung across the main street as you entered the downtown area.
It hung there until the 60's.


What would be your reaction if you drove into a town and saw this sign?

I would think that the people living there are predominantly Caucasian.

 

[IMJerusha]

No.

Agreed. There is nothing wrong with people being proud of their ethnicity.

This is the result of Californians moving in droves to Texas. We'll be seeing stuff like this more and more unless Texas takes a firm stand against left coast liberalism.

In California, everything under the sun causes cancer. My Texas friends believe that Californians cause cancer.

 

[Desert Reign]

No.

Agreed. There was a town in Spain recently that changed its name from KillJew to something else. It was their choice to do that. That had been the name of the town for centuries.
It's up to the people of the town what to call themselves.

 

[musterion]

re: offense and being offended, allegedly by someone named Stephen Fry:

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more...than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so [edited] what."

No idea who the guy is or if he actually said it, but I agree with sentiment.