God damn it racists ruined a pleasant family outing!

Post Reply New Topic

The best advice I can offer is to be polite and civil, and to avoid businesses that are too blatantly racist.

While I don't like terrorists, I have nothing against anyone who is civilized. I don't care what color people are. If you are civilized, great. If you are a barbarian in your behavior, then get lost. Being either civilized or a barbarian has nothing to do with your color or ethnicity, so again, I don't care what color people are. I'm white, but during my working years I worked with people of many colors/ethnic groups/countries, and never had problems to do with race issues. Once in a while, I'd encounter someone who was a jerk, but it never had anything to do with race, as jerks come in all colors, including mine. Fortunately tho, most people are pretty decent.

I'm not going to get into a long politcal discussion, or try to persuade others to my point of view on politics, but I just want to say that race isn't an issue when I vote, either. I would have voted for Alan Keyes, or Herbert Cain for President, and they are both black. Their color is irrelevent to my voting choice. What matters to me is that they mostly share my views, and are decent, civilized people. I was sorry in both cases that they dropped out of their presidential races before voting day. Instead, I had to hold my nose to vote for RINOs I didn't like. I would not have had to hold my nose to vote for these two guys.

No one acting in a civilized fashion should have to put up with blatantly rude behavior from the staff at places of business open to the public, but in such cases all you can really do is to be polite and civil, or take your business elsewhere.

I'm really sorry that happened to you and your family.

Hi salad I couldn't bear to do more than skim this as it is painful to think about. I can only imagine how it must feel in reality where u have no option to 'skim'.

As my dad said one minute you can be living next to and working alongside people... Kids go to same schools. They could be looking after your kids or vice versa... Next moment they can kill you.

He was referring to Sikhs getting killed in India in a city (he is not Sikh he was just telling me that, to say that you don't know what is in someone's secret heart,

and that people can meet you with a smile and stab you in the back etc..)

I don't know if this will work but laughing it out might work to temporarily relieve some strain.

Specific to muslims.. If you google Legally Brown ..
he makes fun of these attitudes (both towards muslims and the stupid things we think and do too...to be honest the comedy targets everyone) and turns it on its head. It's very grounding for me to see those videos.

I'm Jewish Israeli and I have muslim friends. I think that the most dangerous thing is lumping ethnicities, religions and nations together and tarring them with the same brush. Granted, events, wars and terrorism leave their marks of suspicion and prejudice, but each man should be judged by his own merit and as we say in hebrew: " Each man judges others by his own flaws."

Sweet Pea hugs

Yes that's really true.

many humans are barely restrained from atavistic behavior, and often act just like barking dogs. with this in mind, it is easier to not be disappointed in them, and makes one much more appreciative of the relatively few decent people one encounters by chance. or to paraphrase henry kissinger, "90% of them give the other 10% a bad rep." we live in a country where one-third would kill off another third, while the remaining third sits back and watches.