This week’s winner of dumb quote of the week cannot actually be attributed to any specific person, it is a paragraph in a news article I read this morning and it helps explain why there is still the perception of racism in this country:

“The training will likely be similar to what many corporations provide, said Betty Snowden, a Eugene real estate broker and committee member. Volunteers, for example, might be reminded that certain greetings might be appropriate in some instances between two black people, but less so if made by a white person to a black person“.

Institutionalized racism only exists to the extent that the leaders of the black community, and the black community itself allow it to. The idea that it is proper for one black person to refer to another black person using a certain term, but improper if a white person were to use that same term is itself racist (I can only presume they are referring to the “N” word here). If a term, or phrase, of greeting is to be classified as derogatory it should be declared derogatory for all, regardless of race, unless those who continue to play the race card are willing to admit they only want to change the rules for one race, not all of them.

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Dumb Quote of the Week, Racism