Comments on: Ghetto Houseguest

By: laxlady777

laxlady777 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:12:50 +0000

OMG nicole,
This post is brilliant. I love the way that you face adversity and question your prejudices and look beyond appearances. Truely inspirational. You should become an inspirational speaker. I’m sure that the teens at my school would appreciate and need some perspective.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:11:06 +0000

Marquita -

can’t wait to see you around

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marquita — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:11:08 +0000

I just found your site, and am excited to read more.

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By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:35:13 +0000

Definitely making sense Kristen.

Yes, sadly the PC world has infiltrated just about everything and instead of creating tolerance it has pushed our differences to discussions behind closed doors.

Excellent point.

By: Kristen King

Kristen King — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:59:07 +0000

I think it’s easy for people to say that they’re colorblind/tolerant/all-accepting when they’re surrounded by people who are all their same color/age/income/education/religion/whatever, but it’s when you’re in an environment with diverse races, backgrounds, levels of education, cultural upbringing, belief systems, income brackets, etc, that you actually do become aware of your prejudices. I would hate to think that if would offend someone if I described them as “5′7″, black, medium weight, glasses” because I specified race, but I know a lot of people who would freak out if I described someone TO them that way. “What does it matter if she’s black?” Uh, it’s a physical characteristic. Duh? I think society has done itself a big disservice by quashing all discussion of differences. Now everyone is freaked out about offending someone, and those who really are prejudiced can now hide behind titular tolerance and acceptance because that’s just how things are. Am I getting off topic here, or does that make sense?

By: theblacksentinel

theblacksentinel — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:31:29 +0000

I agree that being aware of our differences is not racism. As I don’t want people to pretend to be color blind when looking at me. That to me would be very insulting. As I am a black person and worthy of having that noted when people meet me. I don’t want to be some generic thing that people tolerate with this tolerance.

I like that you all are seeing the differences and just letting them be exactly that differences. This doesn’t make one better or worse, just different.

Also, I agree that negating ones human worth based on silly differences is definitely prejudiced.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:07:07 +0000

Kristen,

I can’t tell you what your feelings mean, but I can speak from my own experience…

I think awareness of your own race is heightened in those incidents because now you are more conscious of the biases that exist (either in yourself or the world as a
whole).

I don’t think being aware of our differences is racism.

Negating a person’s innate human worth simply because of those differences seems more prejudice to me.

What do you think?