Austrlia GP Part 2

[Nitrodaze]

My family is from Africa originally .
Back then , we hated those neanderthals , the Neanderthals .
They called us "Homos" .

This has been going on for a long time , kids .

Racism isn't funny , but I , personally , like to make fun of it .

And , I laughed out loud when I read Big Ben's post .
He was making fun of the gesture Lewis made , and the general feeling of self-importance he projects .
I got the joke .

Nobody openly bristled at my "black liveries matter" post .
Maybe everyone got the joke .

I do have a sense of humour as the next guy. But there are some things that are so serious such that jokes about it becomes insulting. I also understand that it is disconcerting to be confronted with such a touchy subject such as racism. I know l would typically do my best to avoid discussing it in the first place. But this incident has made it unavoidably necessary to look to the issue of racism in this day and age dead on and try to understand how l facilitate it or condone it in my daily social interactions. It is ubiquitous and we have been socially engineered to behave in racist ways from our various perspective. Hence, it happens between any differences in social demographics. Within races, across races, between nations, across sexual orientations, from able bodied against the disabled, across religion and across skin complexion.

It has been the root of many useless wars of old. It has curtailed the growth of peoples across the globe. It has fired the bellies of terrorists. It has made us as humans to be less than we aspire to be even in the face of the briliant inventions and deeds that we do. It has made us small.

[Bagwan]

I do have a sense of humour as the next guy. But there are some things that are so serious such that jokes about it becomes insulting. I also understand that it is disconcerting to be confronted with such a touchy subject such as racism. I know l would typically do my best to avoid discussing it in the first place. But this incident has made it unavoidably necessary to look to the issue of racism in this day and age dead on and try to understand how l facilitate it or condone it in my daily social interactions. It is ubiquitous and we have been socially engineered to behave in racist ways from our various perspective. Hence, it happens between any differences in social demographics. Within races, across races, between nations, across sexual orientations, from able bodied against the disabled, across religion and across skin complexion.

It has been the root of many useless wars of old. It has curtailed the growth of peoples across the globe. It has fired the bellies of terrorists. It has made us as humans to be less than we aspire to be even in the face of the briliant inventions and deeds that we do. It has made us small.

Being hyper-sensitive doesn't help .

Laughing about how stupid it is does , as it at least let's us talk about it without it getting too angry .

Nobody wants to look stupid , so if society in general can laugh at them , maybe racists will see themselves in a different light .
The name "Archie Bunker" comes to mind .

As for the BLM movement in general , it's getting old .
By that , I mean that people are tiring of the message , even though it is that important .
It's now sounding like just endless complaints , and nobody , no matter how serious it is , can endure it endlessly .

My suggestion would be to laud diversity , by showing how important all members of the population really are , by showing what they do and have done .
Black heroes matter .
I imagine a guy like Lewis putting ideas in the heads of not only all the British youngsters , but specifically the non-white ones(or pink if you prefer) .

[Nitrodaze]

Being hyper-sensitive doesn't help .

Laughing about how stupid it is does , as it at least let's us talk about it without it getting too angry .

Nobody wants to look stupid , so if society in general can laugh at them , maybe racists will see themselves in a different light .
The name "Archie Bunker" comes to mind .

As for the BLM movement in general , it's getting old .
By that , I mean that people are tiring of the message , even though it is that important .
It's now sounding like just endless complaints , and nobody , no matter how serious it is , can endure it endlessly .

My suggestion would be to laud diversity , by showing how important all members of the population really are , by showing what they do and have done .
Black heroes matter .
I imagine a guy like Lewis putting ideas in the heads of not only all the British youngsters , but specifically the non-white ones(or pink if you prefer) .

Yours is a fair comment l admit. There are more than one way to deal with the issue. It is a scary subject, for it has many connotations. Hence, l can see how the sheer weight of it becomes unbearable after awhile. But it is important to keep the message going somehow so that this do not become a blip event and return to old ways. We must learn from it and be better to one another.