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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NicolelKellie&lt;/3" data-source="post: 3279375" data-attributes="member: 101487">So if someone suffers a tragedy in their personal life, it is alright to say whatever they want, no matter if it is spewing hatred and intolerance for other people based on things like their race?  Just because somebody is killed by a person of another race, it automatically makes demonizing them or hating all people of that race alright?  Funny.  If that was the case, minorities, in particularly African-Americans, should hate all whites forever because of what was done to their ancestors during slavery.  Almost the entire economic basis of the South was formed on slave labor.  That helped our country industrialize.  Blacks were treated like animals, killed for sport or fun, made to breed so that the slave owners could achieve more economic profit, and were prevented by penalty of death from learning how to read and write.  If they were married, it didn't matter, not only was it not honored by the master, but they were often sold to other plantations.  Blacks couldn't vote, go to school, or any of the million other things we take for granted today.  Of course woman's plight wasn't that much better in many ways.  Look at any statistic of success, from income to education, to life expectancy and you will still find that whites control most of the access to wealth, health, and success in our country.  You can be lynched, shot, or made to feel inferior just because you are not white any day of the year in any State of the Union and nobody(except those minorities) gives a darn about it.   Almost every African-American family around today could tell you about an ancestor who was raped, killed, or discriminated against by a white person.  Or they probably could if there were records of their family histories pre-dating the Civil War.  If you recall, they were considered the same as furniture or livestock and most of their history before emancipation is hard to research at best.  So should every African-American hate white people for all the centuries of abuse and suffering that they had to endure as a people, only to be hated even to this day for not being white?  No, that would be stupid, as ignorant as people often claim minorities to be(act, dress, behave).  Just imagine if all black people were scared of white people because of their shotguns in the car, Confederate flags(how many years after the Civil War?) and country music.  Yet some claim to fear African-Americans.  Well, why is that exactly?  Is there some subconscious guilt associated with that fear or is it just ignorance of the unknown?  Why is it even necessary to say some of these things in 2013?Black culture as someone called it, gave us jazz, rock, and hip hop music, as well as many other things that are more important but rarely get discussed in the media.  So, the most popular forms of music that are not only loved and respected, but emulated across the world makes people think of gangsters and thugs?  In Japan, black culture has the most influence on their music, pop cultural trends, fashion, and dance.  It is considered cool and hip(not necessarily saying that this is a good thing, they tend to copy other cultural forms without always digging deep to understand them).There is a big difference from hate crimes and killing someone just because they are African-American or a minority, and crimes that come about from burglary, drug dealing, and other kinds of criminal activity because the goal is to try to get something in return, not rob somebody of their dignity and self respect based on the pigmentation of their skin.So you want to disparage another group of people over a killing, where do we start and how do we ever finish?  The African-American community is just as diverse as any other community so to generalize them without obviously having a clue about the intricacies of that community, its history, and its plight, is not only ignorant, but it has no place on a martial arts forum and even goes against the morals and ideals of most martial arts.Tolerance for bigotry and racism is adding to the problem, and will never solve it.  Funny what a few college courses, some good books, and talking to people like people, even if they are different from you; late into the night can do for you.  If you find yourself ignorant and want to do something responsible about it, do what I did and reach out and learn from those who are different from you, you might find that deep down you're a lot alike.</blockquote>

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