Dude you just showed your racial bias. You assumed that because it was a black family that it was in a black neighborhood where there is crime and drugs. The black family home was in an upscale subdivision where the homes values were north of one million dollars. This undervaluing homes by racist home appraisers happens often and for decades.
BNI, do you think that Sanford & Son and All In The Family are real life stories?
This is the difference between you and me. I watched that show live around 50 years ago, and I remember Redd not wanting a black doctor because, back then, a black doctor most likely got into medical school to fill a quota. Blacks knew this better than whites.
Sanford and Son is my favorite sitcom. I saw that episode live as well. I also still watch the the reruns on tv now. I probably watched each episode at 30 times in the 50 or so years it’s been in showing reruns.
I think minorities have to work harder to prove themselves because of the laws put in place to make it easier for them.
6 years ago I had a heart attack and was actually dead for 3 minutes and was shocked back to life.
Colored? Uh oh.
A lot of blacks did not want to be called black. As you know, there is still a lot of prejudice among the dark and light colors of blacks. Worse than that is the different shades of Indians. Many more blacks were enslaved by Muslims and taken to Asia than in the Americas.
First of all what does your response have to do with the topic at hand?
"Colored" years ago was a term of endearment attempt. Today many would say it isn't. If we follow the science, "white" is the absence of color and so someone not white logically, would have color. That is just science. As in many things, good intentions don't always translate to good outcomes. In the context of importance saying someone was colored is very insignificant...particularly when so many non-whites are killing each other.
I've witnessed in Mexico some Hispanics using make-up to lighten their skin color. And most of us know there is a belief of prejudice in some as increasing the skin color becomes darker for all races.
Colored being a term of endearment to whom, you? During the dreaded Jim Crow years, colored was the term to describe black people. Since the 1960s, the term colored has been deemed derogatory. Since then in the order chronologically, Negro, black, and African American have been the terms to describe blacks in the US.
Dude have you seen pictures of MLB player Sammy Sosa from my Chicago Cubs lately? Since retirement, Sammy Sosa had chemically lightened his skin color. He’s from the Dominican Republic. As with a lot of Latin American countries, colorism is bad there. The lighter the skin color, the more privilege you have. This is no different here in the US. Lighter skin blacks have enjoyed better privileges than their darker skin counterparts. Same with lighter skinned Latinos/Hispanics.
The point that obviously was missed was yes, there were "white" people that thought it was the nice way to describe blacks years ago. I said as much. In the original response I even said that today it wouldn't be considered the proper way of describing someone. I also stated that good intentions often lead to bad outcomes. How did you miss reading what I said? Go back and read all the words and you may understand what was written.
Not sure if you agree with me or disagree, but what I said was true? I will say that I see it much more a prejudice than "privilege" thing...because I'm not one looking for privilege. Could prejudice result in less privilege...possibly, but in a capitalistic country money paves the way quite often. The best way of eliminating prejudice is having compelling information that the held prejudice is wrong.
