I Am Not a Costume!

[southernbelle14]

I just don't believe you can talk about how insensitive whites are to race when you're saying white people do this or white people say that. It just seems to go against the whole point. You don't want things that are racially offensive to be okay. So saying that white people do certain things and say certain things doesn't seem okay to me. Maybe in your experience it's true, but that doesn't mean it is in general.
Also, I was speaking to the other people who were saying it is okay for nonwhites to dress up as whites. Including agzg who said it was not the same as a nonblack dressing up as a black. If black people don't want white to dress up as black, then they shouldn't dress up as white. Just my personal opinion though.
And White Chicks was written, directed and produced by black men.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by southernbelle14

I just don't believe you can talk about how insensitive whites are to race when you're saying white people do this or white people say that.

LOL. Sorry to break it to you but a discussion of racial insensitivity IS about "people do this or people say that." What is racial insensitivity if it is not about what people tend to say and do? I happened to be discussing white people because it applied in that instance but, as you hopefully read, I also discuss what Black people tend to do when applicable.

Originally Posted by southernbelle14

And White Chicks was written, directed and produced by black men.

Whose "bosses" are white people. Who do you think heads Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures?

[southernbelle14]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

LOL. Sorry to break it to you but a discussion of racial insensitivity IS about "people do this or people say that." What is racial insensitivity if it is not about what people tend to say and do? I happened to be discussing white people because it applied in that instance but, as you hopefully read, I also discuss what Black people tend to do when applicable.

Okay, I'm obviously failing at communicating my thoughts/opinions in a clear way because you're not quite grasping what I intend to say. I blame it on my being tired, so I'm just going to give up for now.
And I did not mean to be rude or offensive with my posts, so I apologize if I came across that way.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by southernbelle14

Okay, I'm obviously failing at communicating my thoughts/opinions in a clear way because you're not quite grasping what I intend to say. I blame it on my being tired, so I'm just going to give up for now.

I grasp what you are saying and disagree with it. Opinions are opinions and behaviors are behaviors. Since we are social creatures many opinions and behaviors are quite common. This thread topic would not exist and persist if not for intraracial and interracial commonalities in expressed opinions and behaviors. I choose to highlight certain commonalities and that's that.

Originally Posted by southernbelle14

And I did not mean to be rude or offensive with my posts, so I apologize if I came across that way.

I read nothing rude or offensive. And that's a huge feat coming from a Black person who is hostile towards white people. *grabbing my 40 Acres and a Mule and going home to hang with my white siblings*