IMO
gas uno said:
of course whites know what racism is, hell... they invented it.
thats like a whore not knowing about sex..
White people invented something that is part of human nature? Among many races/countries around the world, people differentiate between each other based on skin tone. (It
can be argued that white people are the 'winners', and people wanted to be lighter for some reason related to that).
However, that statement is wrong. White people didn't "invent" racism. For instance, the Hindu religion is one that differentiate between "castes", which by coincedence(?) follows that same skin tone concept; Lower castes were generally darker, whereas the lighter skinned people generally were higher castes. Hinduism outdates Christianity, and was in place officially in India until around 1940 something, but still remains in place in everyone's minds to this day. When we make such blanket statements such as "white people invented racism", we are doing an injustice to the topic at hand. You, my friend, just happen to be living in a time and a place where white people founded this country, and in doing so, had an ethnocentric type of vibe to them. Believe me, if we all lived in another country, we'd be complaining about those country's higher ups, whoever they may be.
I used to be on that, "man, america is hella racist, forget white people" tip. One day I said that to my mom during the course of a convo. (Mind you, my parents are from another country and I'm first generation). She said something to the effect of, 'why are you complaining? Of course white people rule, you're in a white country'. What we don't realize is the size of the world and how we are a small spec in it. If we were on the opposite side of the world, would we say white people invented racism? Naw, cuz we'd be complaining about the dudes in charge over there.