How Do You Deal With Racism on the WWW?

[serenity_24]

I was just in Yahoo trying to play spades when halfway through the second hand, this person (you never know who youre talking to in there) started talking about nigger this and that, unloading his rage against blacks on me. I would have left, but It was a rated game, and I didn't want to give him the satisfaction. The game took almost two hours because he was trying to type in comments the whole time.

Have any of you ever encounterd these types of people over the internet ('cause you know they wouldn't say it to your face)?

If so what how did you handle it?

[Poplife]

I have had a similar situation happen to me. I said something nice and they got very flustered and tried to provoke me even more. I just kept giving deep, thoughtful, loving answers and they ceased fire.

[Inquisitive]

LOL Honey I've been chatting on yahoo since like 1998 and it is infamous for it's so called racists. The problem has gotton even more anoying since they enabled voice chat. Anyway, When these people come on I just sit back and laugh and blow it off. I mean what's the point in going back and forth with someone over the internet who you can't even see. Besides I always keep in mind they're only talking all that BS because they have the luxury of sitting at home behind their computers without having to worry about someone confronting them face to face. You, I and everyone else knows that if they were on the streets face to face with one of us it would be a TOTALLY different story! Not even half the crap most of them say over the net would be said in person.


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[This message has been edited by Inquisitive (edited January 25, 2001).]

[AKA2D '91]

WHERE DO YOU ALL PLAY SPADES?

[Optimistic1]

Hey all,

I'm not sure where on www.yahoo.com you play spades, but I know that you can play at www.excite.com/games. It's under the heading of card games.

I'll admit that when I first played it wasn't the spades I was used to. You could bid nil (bidding that you'll make zero books) and blind nil (just like a blind 6 but 0 books).

Have fun playing!

[AKA_Monet]

What you do is call those white folx on their game... Let me tell you my story in how I dealt with it:

I got on a board that was off this cable TV channel and about a show... There was an episode that disgusted every Afrikan American person that watched that show. But that was after this episode aired!!! I stated my feelings before the show aired and all the negroes cursed me out and told me to get over it. Then, when the show aired, those same negroes cursed the white folxs out. Then the klansmen got on the board and said stuff like, "I need to check my scalp to make sure no stubble is growing..." or "I'm getting my gasoline and logs ready for the picnic tonight..." Negroes got scared and didn't address the issue. I attacked the klan right back, knowing that I will read all kinda "N" word this and that. But then, I made a concession, that the only way these writers of this TV show can correct their actions is have one of their characters deal with a white supremist...

Folks just had to "goad" me on... So I wrote a story about ALL the stereotypes folks have against white people--trying to show the ignorance in having stereotypes, overall!!! So my klansmen got all over my case. In my story, I ended it with, "The girl ran out of the trailer park with her cell phone calling her friends to come pick her up because she could swallow the possum the family that looked all alike was eating and that old mangy hound dog with fleas begging for food. And she just couldn't get her last stench of thathouse which smelled like rhubarb pie!!!" OHHHH, you should've read the comments I got... .

Anyhow, when the Klansmen were saying they were going to have a cross burning, I asked if can I come with marshmellows to their cross burning? And of course they said, "ONLY if they are WHITE!!!"

Then, I said, "But baby, you gotta love the taste of chocolate when your making s'mores..."

After that, the Klansmen and I became friends and we started tag teaming folxs on their stupidity... It's kinda funny when you think about it. Here I am this small Afrikan American lady going up against this racist Klansmen--only to discover that all of us have to notice the stereotypes and realize that all cultures have certain "things" about them that they find "shameful" and others find "amusing"...

I got more of them if you'd like to email me about it... As I get older, I'm getting better on calling folks on their game...