Actually, people do have the right to tell people to stop their use of racist slurs. You may not like the fact that they/we have that right, but it still exists. It's funny how many people are willing to defend someone's right to be racist, but choose to get upset about the reaction to that racism. The "romantic…

It's apparent that she's a racist and she doesn't really care if people know it. She actually has the nerve to be mad because folks have something to say about her racism. Her defense for calling herself a "G*psy" is no different from the way that people just like her defend using the n-word. After all, they don't…

Thank you for wording that so well. My hope is that if someone else comes along and sees this conversation, they'll learn from it. I doubt that "BrooklynG*psy1" is going to stop with the racism she's displaying.

Are you really so ignorant that you are unaware of the fact that there are lots of songs with the N-word in them and the c-word in them? White people had no problem slinging these racist slurs around regardless of how they affected the people who they were marginalizing. At one point in history, a lot of White people…

Yep. This person can just have a ball throwing around racist slurs all across the internet. She never has to worry about being marginalized by them. She can use them to her heart's content (and even find people who will defend her usage of racist slurs) and then abandon the label and go back to ignoring the results of…

However, you're still going to use it, even though you know it's a racist slur. It has always been a racist slur, just like "n*gg*r" has always been a racist slur. Of course you don't think it's so terrible to call yourself these terms, because you can shed them whenever you want and then ignore the racism that you…

And you could definitely find some Black people who don't object to being called a "n-word". Does that mean you wouldn't be being racist by using it, even with people who DO object to the use of racist terms? It's not bullying when your racism is exposed and you refuse to stop being a racist.

Even if you believe it's unfair to point out that someone is using racist slurs, it doesn't change the facts. If you pointed at a Black woman and said, "She's a "sp*ok!", you could just mean that they are someone who spooks people. However, that's going to a very difficult argument to make given the history of that…

Okay, I don't care who you are. That's just funny! The next time I see a form like that I'm going to be really, really tempted to put Naavi-American.

I know this may be hard for you to believe, but a person's words can reveal a lot about them even if they don't mean to. I'm not assuming. I'm using context clues. If you don't realize that OP is white, then you're just not very observant. If you can't read the entire thread and keep up with what the OP has said,…

I share your hope. I love seeing all the mixes of features that DNA makes possible.

My family has reached that point where "bi-racial" is just useless as a term. There's really no way to break down blood quantum in any reliable way, even if a person does accept race as a legitimate concept. If we were going to characterize our background using race as an identifier, the best my family could do would…

Where do you live Trlnl? I'm quite curious!

Oh wow! People like you still exist? If you were here, I'd ask you for your autograph and try to take a picture with you. In a few years, you'll be just like the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger. Your grandchildren will likely be people of color, because yours is the last generation with a significant number of…

I think you need to crack open a book. It's not a matter of what I think. It's simply the facts. It was Europeans who came up with the concept of race and they are the ones who proceeded to enforce it in the places that they colonized. It was the entire basis for the genocide of millions of Indigenous Americans. It…

I'm afraid that's just not true. Race has a very specific history with specific categories that were used to group everyone. It wasn't determined by your genes. It was determined by your features. Africans and Aboriginal Australians don't share the same lineage, but we were clumped together based on the fact that we…

Absolutely! That's why I think that "ethnicity" is a lot more valid than "race". Ethnicity tells us a lot more about where someone got their features. If I was a citizen in China, I could say I'm Chinese but that wouldn't be all that accurate. However, if I said that I was a Louisiana Creole, then you'd know more…

There's no such thing as "reverse racism". It doesn't exist. Either something is racist or it isn't. By the way, I'm part white. So, if I'm a dickhead, you're going to have to deal with the fact that you share a bunch of genes with a dickhead. It's hilarious to see you making the "uppity Negro" complaints, though. I…

Down here in Louisiana, you can find the North American version of what you learned about Brazil. You could have a group of people that Yankees would all consider Black. Those same people could have very different identifiers that Yankees never even consider.

This isn't about whether people have had preferences. This is about race. Race is more than just preferences. I'm not sure why it's weird to point out that it was Europeans who came up with the concept of race and then proceeded to enforce it on others via colonialism. Prejudice is not synonymous with racism. If I…