tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144027995248738016.post6856629982422870269..comments2017-08-10T22:28:46.719+01:00Comments on ink for thought: but you don't really know, do you?joe ordinaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00130989674947236361noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144027995248738016.post-37519515816169451832009-11-20T08:57:26.845+00:002009-11-20T08:57:26.845+00:00and I think that's kinda my point. I can't...and I think that's kinda my point. I can't begin to understand the pain that comes with a Jewish heritage and the discrimination faced today. <br /><br />and I don't need to feel it in order to empathise with it, in order to be reviled by the obvious injustice and inhumanity of the whole situation.<br /><br />I guess I'm ranting about people who use scant, superficial interaction with black folks as grounds for minimising the difficulties, historic and contemporary, faced. <br /><br />sadly enough there are those in my everyday experience who say "I know what it's like to be black, it's not that bad at all" based on nothing more three music videos and a few sports celebrities splashed over tabloid centre folds.<br /><br />discrimination finds it's roots in ignorance and so open discourse as we're having here can only be a good thing. annoyance aside I think it's quite likely we agree a lot more than it seems.<br /><br /><br />-peace-joe ordinaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00130989674947236361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144027995248738016.post-7964352712819746172009-11-19T18:50:17.523+00:002009-11-19T18:50:17.523+00:00I agree that it's wrong for someone to claim t...I agree that it's wrong for someone to claim to know exactly how you feel or what you've experienced, but at the same idea I hate when people act like you can't empathize or haven't experienced similar things because you're not the exact same people. For example, I can't claim to know everything about you, but I can empathize. I think it's bullshit that someone would treat you like a criminal based on nothing but your skin color I hate that people are so ignorant that they're afraid of Nsoromma purely because she's black. I don't know what it's like to be able to be pegged as "different" by sight, but I have had to endure hateful remarks made by people who don't know I'm of the religion they're bad mouthing. I have living family members who were taken from their homes and were thrown into concentration camps because of their heritage. Those who lived came to this country, to England or went to Israel with nothing and made lives for themselves. To this day, there are campaigns against shopping at Jewish-owned stores in this country, and "jew" is used as a derogatory term. No. I can't understand exactly what you went through, but I have experienced unfounded hatred, as so many people have. I think we could benefit by acknowledging our different experiences while finding the similarities among them. We have a better shot at ending discrimination if people who have experienced hate band together instead of fighting among one another. That's just my take...Marahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14225939818950997678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1144027995248738016.post-68488872100881158562009-11-06T12:03:55.042+00:002009-11-06T12:03:55.042+00:00My goodness I was having this EXACT same thought y...My goodness I was having this EXACT same thought yeasterday! I work with a white guy who says things like 'wagwan' and 'you get me' only when I am around and I just give him blank stares and go 'huh? what's that mean?' though I secretly want to punch his lights out. Oh and the white people at work are scared of me, for no reason. All but 2 I think and I work with LOADSA white people. GrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrNsoromma...Child of the Heavenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555876073225212247noreply@blogger.com