Sigh, that was a great piece you wrote there.

I have been saying for many years that the most discriminated person is a white middle aged heterosexual employed male.

...had I caught the fucker, there would have been a beating like he never had. His timing was impeccable. I am a natural multitasker, so I was reading a book and listening to am mp3 and so, distracted. I stood up quickly which minimized the piss exposure, and the train was literally in motion at that point, the guy gone. Had I reacted a bit quicker, I could have pulled the emergency stop handle and chased him on the platform. On the other hand, he could have had a gun. But, that was a chance I would have willingly taken. Cowardly fucker. His timing certainly suggests he has done it before. Thanks for the empathy.

Obviously, you judge the individual individually. It is foolish not to identify tendencies in subcultures and comport yourself accordingly. Black males between the ages of 15 and 35 overwhelming commit the most violent crimes. It is not racist to acknowledge this and comport yourself accordingly. There is an argument to be made that I was foolish to be on that train, in that part of the city, at that late hour. But I BELIEVE in the American dream. I BELIEVE that a black guy can come to restuarant in a white neightborhod, a Mexican guy can come into an Asian neighbrhood-your an American, we are all Americans--you go where you want. Foolish, maybe. As has been proven to me. I guess if I don't want to be shit on by non-whites, I have to stay away from them? Not going to happen. Im still going where I want, and doing what I want.

Scott DeSalvo

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!

gee sorry to hear that, that sounds fucked mate, what a scumbag. Can you carry a weapon where you live, he could have been throwing acid at you? That would infuriate me as well, maybe to the point of doing something irrational.

Yeah it would be great if you could judge people solely on their ethnicity. Unfortunately you can't, unless they align themselves blatantly with some group whose values you can judge, everyone has to be judged as an individual.
Anyway you knew that already, hope you're able to chill out a bit.

It's disgusted me for a long time that black or Latino people have a much easier time getting into college than I do. It's patently ridiculous to think that someone's ancestry tells you anything about what they will contribute to an educational institution, and yet this is the prevailing philosophy among universities today.

Case in point: one of my younger brother's good friends is a black kid who's got absolutely nothing to do with the culture that you describe. His father is one of the most successful surgeons in the Twin Cities area; the man is kept on call and on retainer by several of the local professional sports teams. The kid's mother graduated with honors from an Ivy League law school. And does he feel compelled to play "street ball", wear mountains of fake jewelry, and punctuate every sentence with unprintable words? Nope; he's a prized member of the hockey and lacrosse teams at the state's most prestigious private school and has been recognized numerous times for his exceptional friendliness and personal integrity.

And yet the most important factor in this kid's college admissions will be the fact that he's black. It's absurd; he's an excellent person in every respect, and yet the first thing that the admissions committee will look at is his race. And imagine what he must feel, knowing that he's being judged more for the failures of his race than for his own achievements.

that the piss-filled bottle incident happened last night, which precipitated the blog post later that same evening.

Scott DeSalvo

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!

Thanks for sharing that mate. One word: Altruism.

"We" grow up being taught to feel sorry for "them" because they are "disadvantaged" or "misunderstood" or "disenfranchised". THIS is the most racist attiude of all.

This sort of attitude, which is borne out in things like reduced admissions standards to universities, special welfare benefits, and sometimes even special treatment under the law for "them", is the worst possible answer to the problem. Not only does it teach the "them" individual that nothing is expected of him - so he may as well not even try - but it breeds a derogatory feeling of both arrogance and inferiority towards "sucker whitey" (among other things). This leads to the crime that Scott speaks of, and this in turn starts to piss "whitey" off, and then bam, your racism problem is worse than ever before, and you see fighting and rioting on the streets in Paris, Sydney, etc.

Granted, there have been problems IN THE PAST between different races, but these problems are exacerbated by giving the great great grandchildren of those wronged an excuse to carry around a chip on their shoulder.

The only thing propping up the hip-hop culture are the people who tolerate it and go out of their way to help the moral cripples it creates even though those cripples are indifferent to any help.

Practice a scorched earth policy with the racist urine throwers of the world and their mute audience. Disentangle yourself from anything that requires you to give aid and comfort to them against your better judgement.

If you are a public defender, go private. There is nothing to stop you doing pro-bono work for people you deem worthy of your time later. Take a taxi instead of the train. Consider leaving Chicago for somewhere more color-blind.

In essence I'm advocating a mini Atlas Shrugged.

It's nothing less than sickening. The sense of entitlement among many inner city blacks leaves little room for reason.

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Spaceplayer Sight and Sound

have hit a few nails on the head.
That train journey sounds dreadful, gosh, the behaviour seems so undignified.

(Bunch of savages)

I regard it as a badge of honour to have grown up in an affluent, 100% White Anglo Saxon environment, attended a private school and never knew (or even met) Maori or Polynesian people until my late teens.

Considering the primitive behaviour involving babies and clothes driers recently, I find it jolly welcome to be removed from it all!

I must say, it is difficult not to view certain matters as being racially based.

Living in Remuera I do not know anybody White who acts like that, yet my Samoan maid/cook, her Sons (including the cute one with the great legs) are professional shoplifters and petty thieves....something she tut tuts about but seems oblivious to the underlying deceitfulness of! (just astounding!)