Denmark Vesey: Who you callin' a bigot?

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Who you callin' a bigot?

skip sievert said...
Hey you bigot soteria...: That white chick looked pretty good to me.
Your blood ?
I assume you are a human ?
All humans are the same.
The human race.

soteria said...

What is up with Skip...you think everyone is a bigot huh?

Webster defines bigot as-
a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.

How is what I said filled with hate or intollerance? How am I devoted soley to my own opinion and prejudice? You seem to be the intolerant one since you are calling people who don't agree with you, 'bigots and dumb asses'...way to take the moral high road...

Your examples of how white people have rhythm is Fred Astaire and Mikal B?? Interesting...true enough they have their own set of rhythm, but I don't know if they have the rhythm necessary to get their dancehall swerve on... I'm just sayin!

By the way all humans are not the same...we have individual identities based on our life experience and exposure...culture makes us different. I am vastly different culturally than my white friends...even though we were raised in the same type of environments...

Jun 26, 2007 11:16:00 AM

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: I cant/wont weigh in on the 'bigot' debate but I can/will say......I have never in all my life busted out a videocamera so as to film myself groovin' in front of the oven. Aint no dance studios or stages where these chicks are from????

Seriously DV, what search terms do you use to find these videos?; Jun 26, 2007, 5:57:00 PM
Anonymous said...: DV,
Just when I thought it couldn't have gotten worse...
ROTFLOL.....
** Shaking my head in disbelief**; Jun 26, 2007, 6:02:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Maybe we should have a side by side comparison of the sistas doin it and this young lady...
(hope her parents don't see this either...she looks around 14); Jun 26, 2007, 6:03:00 PM
Intellectual Insurgent said...: How did this whole thread start? LOL!!

Gotta love Skip. Everyone gets a dose from him at some point.; Jun 26, 2007, 6:07:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: Well, see Ladies.

Believe it or not, Skip makes an interesting point.

If we laugh at the young white girl because she doesn't dance well, can white people laugh at young black girls who don't read very well?

Would we call them bigots if they did?

Can we take what we dish out?; Jun 26, 2007, 6:14:00 PM
Anonymous said...: the so-called 'white' equivalent of dancing is reading?????; Jun 26, 2007, 6:31:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: Robyn said...
"the so-called 'white' equivalent of dancing is reading?????"

That's neither here nor there.

The operative point is the determination of double standard and the application of the term "bigot".

I suggest black people, (including me) are often just as bigoted IF NOT MORE bigoted than any other group in America.

Was Soteria being a bigot?

No.

She was laughing at something that is undeniably funny. She didn't ignore the obvious fact that the girl was white. Skip took offense and do what politically correct people do - he called her a "bigot".; Jun 26, 2007, 7:02:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Whatever...if someone is going to make fun of a girl who can't read and point out the fact that she is black...that would be a mere statement of fact.

If they took it and made it a generalization and backed it up with information reinforcing that truth, then I wouldn't call them a bigot. That is the problem with people sometimes, when they hear things that they don't want to accept or that makes them look in the mirror they cry 'bigot!'

The truth is the truth...; Jun 26, 2007, 8:08:00 PM
J.C. said...: The truth is the Truth ?

The truth has a lively changing face.

Ha ha.

When people start talking about 'blood' I have to question why.

So are you saying that someone like Halle Barry can only dance half as good as a 'real' black person ?

Its a slippery slope when people generalize about humans being so very different from one another.

I will stick with my comment. All humans are the same in that all humans belong to the human race.; Jun 26, 2007, 9:29:00 PM
Anonymous said...: We do all belong to the human race...but that does not negate that there are some genetic predispositions toward certain traits...

You see that in mannerisms passed from generation to generation (crooked smile...wrinkles in the nose when making a certain expression)...it is not hard to extend that to other traits such as natural rhythm; Jun 26, 2007, 9:37:00 PM
J.C. said...: So you are saying that Halle Barry can only dance like a person of mixed color ?

That sounds kinda funny to me.; Jun 26, 2007, 9:50:00 PM
Denmark Vesey said...: Soteria makes an excellent point.

Yes, we are all human beings. But no, we are not the "same".

Attempting to enforce the mythology that suggests we are is ultimately anti-human.; Jun 26, 2007, 11:41:00 PM
J.C. said...: If you take a human and put it with a bunch of wolves, if the wolves do not eat it, and decide to raise it instead, that human will act like a wolf.

We are the product of conditioning.
Brainwashing enters into it a lot.

Every human is unique, just like every thing is unique. Even identical twins are different.; Jun 27, 2007, 10:06:00 AM