White people really want to be black...

[dullard]

I had this same discussion in my honors race issues class when I was getting my bachelors degree. We basically came to the conclusion that TheBDB stated:

Originally posted by: TheBDB
I think there are examples that every race has some desire to be the superior race.

1) Everyone has a built in feeling that they are doing things the way things ought to be done (if you felt you did things in an inferior way you'd change the way you did them). Thus everyone feels that people who disagree MUST be doing things in an inferior way. This leads to the false idea that you are superior to others. For example people almost always rate themselves as much better drivers than the rest of the world - but we cannot ALL be better than average.
2) However we also have enough intelligence to know that we aren't perfect. Thus we know we have some flaws. The insinct is then to hope that your ways are correct - we hope that are arguments are right, that we do things perfectly, etc. If you hope you are doing things correctly then by definition you hope that people who do things differently are doing them improperly.
3) The hope that people different than you are not as good as you leads to the desire to be superior. People with blond hair feel that blonds are superior. People who are tall feel that tall people are superior. People who are strong feel that strong people are superior. Etc. Race is no exception.

I'm just putting forward a psychological theory - you don't need numerics or genetics to try to explain it.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: CT2TXtech

Originally posted by: edro13
How fast would it have taken to get this thread locked if the title was: "Black people really want to be White..."?

I dont know
try it out

And get banned? I don't think sooo.....

 

[CPA]

I just want to be superior, regardless of my skin color.

 

[GasX]

Your professor is a self-absorbed F-tard. Is it too late to drop the class?

 

[wasssup]

i'm happy being an indian...good food, high IQ, and hot girls (ok, a lot are ugly, but we'll just pretend they don't exist )

oh yeah, we're rich too

 

[Slammy1]

How can they describe the white race as deficient genetically when we all started out in Africa in the first place? Europeons and Asians adapted to less sunlight (lighter skin) and shrunk to conserve heat in colder climates. At least this is my understanding.

 

[Geekbabe]

I dunno,I have no desire to be black,well maybe except for my booty

 

[CT2TXtech]

Originally posted by: wasssup
i'm happy being an indian...good food, high IQ, and hot girls (ok, a lot are ugly, but we'll just pretend they don't exist )

oh yeah, we're rich too

Hot girls, hmmmm-i had sex with an Indian chick for the first time on my bday. She wasnt rich. I used to go to school in CT, there was an exchange program with Sri Lanka. Learned a lot about a new culture, didnt see many hot chicks though. But then again, you prob dont like Black chicks

 

[TMPadmin]

Ya ar Kunga! (SP?)

I am king! White, black, purple or pink. It's all a state of mind. If you as an individual feel superior you are (probably not really since no one can be superior in everything). That is my point. I my do something better than someone else say in cooking hot dog, while someone else is better at making the slime to add to the hot dog, yet another makes a mean bun. The three of us get together and make a superior slime dogger! Using each other?s strengths to obtain a superior product is the key.

No I don't want to be anything other than myself, otherwise how will I know who I am?

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: edro13
How fast would it have taken to get this thread locked if the title was: "Black people really want to be White..."?

You'd get the same reaction as the kids trying to start a White people club

 

[Bryophyte]

I am not white, more like a light apricot colored. I wouldn't mind my husband being black, though

I don't think anyone is really superior, no matter what race/ethnicity. I'm just me, for what it's worth.

 

[gururu]

Lets get a few things straight. White is a beautiful 'color'. It has come to symbolize purity, cleanliness, clarity,
and fairness among other things. Unicorns, angels, goddesses, and the Easter Bunny is white. I think that caucasians have engineered these mythical beings to be in their likeness. Why? Simply because they appreciate the beauty that perfectly white skin can have. Indeed, I as well do. BUT...

Every race does the same thing. I as a mexican, love brown skin. More than any other. Mexicans, IMO, have the perfect skin color; actually Indians have similarly beautiful colors. But I also know that friends I have who are black, love black skin. Then, there are the occasional freaks that like skin colors other than their own. To me, that is a fetish. Now, I wouldn't say I am a racist because I have loved many women of different colors. But that is only because beauty can be found in so many levels. But I think, that people tend to love what they have come to be familiar with. We are in a predominantly white America, and it is to be expected that white is the holy standard. What I find wrong about this however, is that some people think that brown shades are dirty, and that the people bearing them are dirty as well.

 

[Electric Amish]

There's no such thing as a "superior" race.

 

[SaltBoy]

that's stupid and wrong, I don't want to be black

Oh, wait...

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
There's no such thing as a "superior" race.

There's no such thing as "race"... it's a crock 'o' sh|t... We are all HUMAN!

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I dunno,I have no desire to be black,well maybe except for my booty

Just stop wiping.

 

[BooGiMaN]

I want to be green to crush you puny humans....


HULK SMASH NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I dunno,I have no desire to be black,well maybe except for my booty

your booty is aiight

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Redhotjrm

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Just out of curiosity: do you go to school in California?

Northern Kentucky University.... www.nku.edu ... African American Studies, 100 level class with a 400 level course-load. General Studies Req.

You have only 2 black people in your African American studies class?

This is sad

I'm happy being a culturally diverse mutt

 

[tk149]

I'm not black OR white....I'm Michael Jackson!

 

[spliffstar69]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I dunno,I have no desire to be black,well maybe except for my booty

hmm.. got to love that ghetto booty.

 

[Vic]

I think I want whatever your professor is smoking. Sounds like some really good sh!t even if it does whack your brain.

 

[PatboyX]

"white people are so scared of black people"


related info...sort of...in a tangental way.

 

[alkemyst]

The whole genetically deficient argument is flawed.

It's always sunlight and things that being darker is important.

Never once do they bring up the fact that say we are at the South Pole and Mr. Polar Bear wants as snack....who is he going to see first as my black friend and I try to blend in with the snow?

heehh

 

[glen]

Darker skin - more protection from the sun THEREFORE less skin cancer/ less vitamin D creation
Lighter skin - less protection from the sun THEREFORE more skin cancer/ more vitamin D creation

These are the only 2 proven genetic advantagesand disadvantages to to skin color.
I don't think camoflage is an advantage for either type, but it is the classic evolutionary example in animals.