Jackel
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marmite
Best answer!
i think some older people such as my own dad are racist because they grew up never knowing any black people so its fear of people they do not know.Things have changed now and i think racist views will die out.Praise God for that fact.My dad makes racist jokes to wind me up.Not funny.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Vinny
That is the silliest remark I have seen here since I arrived - Which community are you speaking of? Yours? certainly not in my community. I am 'older person' and I have nothing against colored people, black, white, yellow or chartreuse and for anyone that says something like this i can only think that they are the ones that are racist just by the fact they bring it up in the first place. We will never get past this racist bs until everyone young and old quits bringing it up. You can not keep pointing a finger and isolating one group and saying they are racist or prejudiced against another group unless you are the racist or prejudiced person yourself. You are in fact not only instigating hatred but you are instigating hatred for 'older people', and this in itself is one of the problems with people hating people-- They don't even know it.
Jackel
Vinny
do do dave
| 13 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
old meaning 80 or older
Even then at 80+ not all in this age group is racist. My parents gone now but both in their late 80's upto the day they passed didn't have a racist bone in their body
Your assumption is false and bigoted. I am sorry if you are offended by this but your post is offensive to 'older people'.
Your assumption is false and bigoted. I am sorry if you are offended by this but your post is offensive to 'older people'.
i myself find people mellow with age,attitudes they may have had when they were younger are now more conservative(closer to what jesus would do), with this in mind the prejudice would be the younger peoples' tag
friendindeed
suliz
Ann
nomdeplume
PEOPLELOVER
As a 79yr old "white" Aussie I coudn`t give a toss what colour some ones` skin is . I played mixed doubles tennis and my partner was a full blood Aboriginee, I called her "Blackie" and she called me "Whitey". Had its` advantages, if we were being beaten my partner would declare the tennis court a sacred site and send us off.(joke)I had mates in the Australian Army that were full blood Aboriginees and Thursday Islanders and a better bunch you could never hope to see. One said to me "You have white skin ,blue eyes, brown hair and you call me coloured" Same bloke got a slight wound and said "Hey look my blood is the same colour as yours"
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
gary
MaxeyBear
Well swetie I am 81 years old. I do not and never have disliked or hated anyone for the color of thier skin. But I have disliked people for thier actions. My home was always opened to kids of all denominations when my children were growning up. One of my Mexican kids that came to our house wanted me to sign his report card, because his father was gong to be pissed because he flunked Spanish. LOL My oldest daughters best friend all through high school and beauty college sang with Tina Turner. I went head to head with a Santa Ana,Ca. police dept. because they accused one black boy of killing a cop. I had proof he was not any where near where it happened. He was at football practice.
So it is kind of odd for anyone to think people of my gerneration hates black people or what ever color someone is. Just pipe it.
So it is kind of odd for anyone to think people of my gerneration hates black people or what ever color someone is. Just pipe it.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
barbarella
Ian
eggplant
bulletman
mom
I don't know any older people that hate colored people. Why would anyone hate a person for having different skin color. In Canada, the government tends to really hand out financial help to foreigners coming here and the natives but one can't hold that against them. If anything here, I would think like myself, it's the government that we feel the frustration towards. Even in saying that ...it's not hate.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
loafhead49
as an elderly person I find this question very offencive. I and a lot of my friends love dark people and think everyone should owen one. (just kidden)
Annie A.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
I was going to post a remark to your "offensive" racist joke(?);
however, due to your poor grammar and spelling-- your ignorance shines through. You aren't worth what I originally wanted to express. God bless you.
however, due to your poor grammar and spelling-- your ignorance shines through. You aren't worth what I originally wanted to express. God bless you.
Lovechild
I think hate is a strong word! While there are some that do "hate" blacks, or Mexicans, or Jews, or anything that doesn't look, act or think like they do, I think it's really hate against what they represent, "diffences!" Yet there are probaly older people that have prejudice against blacks because they lived in a time that racism, hatred,and prejudice dominanted. They are afraid or fear blacks because of what their grandparents and forefathers did to blacks! Racism was a dominant factor in their upbringing, and they are just repeating what they grew up with.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
mycatsmom
I've known old people who always used the N word. But I think it's because that's all they ever heard , in the past, and so they were programed that way.Plus, years ago, old people didn't have much education and didn't travel very far beyond their home.
I took care of many old people as an LPN , and lot of them never went beyond the 3rd,or 6th, or 9th grade.
I'm not excusing them for using the N word.
I've also heard black people refer to other black people as '' nigger''. When we went to visit our black frineds in Detroit, the man was complaining about their neighbors to my husb, and the black man said, '' They're niggers ''
I took care of many old people as an LPN , and lot of them never went beyond the 3rd,or 6th, or 9th grade.
I'm not excusing them for using the N word.
I've also heard black people refer to other black people as '' nigger''. When we went to visit our black frineds in Detroit, the man was complaining about their neighbors to my husb, and the black man said, '' They're niggers ''
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
ed shank
Hate has no age restrictions. I see an equal amount of hate against whites from other ethnic groups. My father at the age of 9 witnessed his entire family murdered, this took place in Russia around 1923. He was taken in by an elderly couple who a short time later "sold" him to a Portuguese fisherman with whom he stayed till he was 22 years old as a deck hand. He never harbored any ill will towards the fisherman, but hated the Russians till the day he died. He was sold into slavery by his own people.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
zorro
matheneyg
I know this may not sit well with some but it seems to me that people of color are the ones that have all the hate in them especially toward the white 's I grew up in whats known as black section of town and most of my best friends were colored there wasn't any hate between the races at least where I lived it was not until the 60's when all the racial problems developed that all of todays racial hatred began. Blacks today seem to be the bigots
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
amfortas
Adreamer2
Probably the same stupid reasons that some folks today do not like other people in other countries. They are taught to do so. Some have learned to feel this way. Yet, we are not born into the world, learning this way. It is something learned.
What is learned, is passed on by those who preceeded us here. and so, older, they continue the evil of hatred.
Let them have their hatred. I don't want to learn it! There are greater things the mind can absorb! What a limited thing to focus on!
Your sister,
Ginger,
Adreamer2
Work1ders.com
What is learned, is passed on by those who preceeded us here. and so, older, they continue the evil of hatred.
Let them have their hatred. I don't want to learn it! There are greater things the mind can absorb! What a limited thing to focus on!
Your sister,
Ginger,
Adreamer2
Work1ders.com
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
bvarga
I dont feel older people hate colored, I was rasied in Cleveland and when i was a kid there was a lot of prejudice with white power and black panthers, and Im sure some poeple still hold on to memmories that are not good, I was prejudice when growing up but now I am not, I judge a person for who he is not what color he is. I have good friends from all walks of life.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
Utrit
Sinking_Python
I think a certain element of it is lack of political correctness.
Now don't get me wrong there is racism,but when I was growing up we didn't have political correctness.
If I say someones a retard instead of mentally challenged that's a slip on my part we didn't make those distinctions growing up.
Now I'm white so for me when I went to school it wasn't white kids that traveled in groups of 4-6 looking to find a couple white boys alone and give them a beat down.
To this day if I see a group of black guys walking together I get my radar up.
Now does that make me a racist I hope not.
Vinny
Now don't get me wrong there is racism,but when I was growing up we didn't have political correctness.
If I say someones a retard instead of mentally challenged that's a slip on my part we didn't make those distinctions growing up.
Now I'm white so for me when I went to school it wasn't white kids that traveled in groups of 4-6 looking to find a couple white boys alone and give them a beat down.
To this day if I see a group of black guys walking together I get my radar up.
Now does that make me a racist I hope not.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
As i grew up I also referred to the mentally challenged as 'retarded' shorten to 'retard' it became derogatory. when we said a person was retarded we meant no disrespect for this person, the action groups turned this identifier into a non-pc slanderous remark when it simply means 'slower'. I don't use the word myself anymore as they have imposed such a guilt trip on using the word.
As far as seeing a bunch of black guys walking down the street, I think you must be a bit more descriptive on this. Let's put this in perspective. If they are presentable, perhaps college students or even missioners, I see them i don't fear them, however, if I see a bunch of blacks in gangsta clothing, yelling MOFO and all the rest of these intimating actions, then yes, I'm a bit uncomfortable..
also, if I saw a bunch of white guys walking down the street with rooster hairdos and goth apparel with tattoos of Satan on their foreheads, tons of metal piercings I would be a little taken by them as well.
So its really not a racist thing, we are simply unwilling to accept some cultures that are different from our own..
As far as seeing a bunch of black guys walking down the street, I think you must be a bit more descriptive on this. Let's put this in perspective. If they are presentable, perhaps college students or even missioners, I see them i don't fear them, however, if I see a bunch of blacks in gangsta clothing, yelling MOFO and all the rest of these intimating actions, then yes, I'm a bit uncomfortable..
also, if I saw a bunch of white guys walking down the street with rooster hairdos and goth apparel with tattoos of Satan on their foreheads, tons of metal piercings I would be a little taken by them as well.
So its really not a racist thing, we are simply unwilling to accept some cultures that are different from our own..
doublehelix
PPPPFFFFFFFF I"M SORRY, THE ONLY REASON I OPENED THIS THREAD WAS BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT ASKED "WHY DO OLDER PEOPLE HATE COLOURED HAIR" for some reason, i think i need a brain check. :S :S
doublehelix
ole hipster
PEOPLELOVER
PEOPLELOVER
| 13 years ago. Rating: 0 | |
hahe, you don't!
we should open a thread about this ;) i don't like it either too but i'm not old :S
we should open a thread about this ;) i don't like it either too but i'm not old :S
I'm grey as Hell but don't care and think dyed hair looks terrible when one gets older! But that's just me. (:
ole hipster, my hair is almost pure white and I am proud of it. To me it represents 79 years on this spinning blue dot and the wealth of experience that goes with it. Grow old gracefully, so I am with you on this one.
Just saw your comment double helix. thank you, I rather consider myself as a legend in my own LUNCHBOX. Flying to London in a few weeks on my own so I have a lot to be pleased with.
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