Black student - 7 yrs Assault/ White student - probation arson, Paris TX

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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

This is lame excuse to justify hate. Period. That's lame and you know it. Instead of being the "bigger person", the "better person" and making that difference in people's lives you'd rather trivialize their being.

Just because it's the easy thing to do, I guess we just do it because we don't want to be better people than simpletons.

I guess this is what happens when the "Me.com" generation grows up. So selfish, run over anyone different...

I'm not justifying hate, don't put words into my mouth.

People are going to discriminate! Deal with it!

I'm appalled that you somehow imply that I'm part of the "me.com" generation, when your attitude has you right in that generation too. Your claiming that I'm "selfish" and that I need to be the "bigger person". What about you? You come onto this thread and start blowing your horn "screaming" at me and others.

Everyone has been discriminated against, in one way or another.



And if you had really read what people have been saying, none of us are discriminating. In fact we are all saying that it sucks that in today's society the people are getting discriminated because of their name.

Can most of us do anything about it? Hell no.

What people are saying, not all but some, is that they feel parents should really take their children's names into account and how it will effect them growing up.

Again, can we control that? No.

Originally Posted by sdsuchelle

Oh damn, my name is Michelle and Heather was my parents' 2nd choice.

Why am I so white

I think there is a misunderstanding with what I meant.

Ex. My mom had a student named Ja'Shanae. One would probably assume (and correctly) from her name that she is African American. But if she had the name Heather, people would probably assume, because of her name, that she is a White person (and they would have been incorrect). That was the whole point of what they were doing. To study peoples assumptions on race based on the persons name. (They were also looking at the discrimination of employers).