strange to hear anacostia mentioned a few times.. as a white guy who was also threatened there. ironically, i was to visit the anacostia museum to commemorate a sculpture that i had worked on - i was a guest of honor for the museum, but an unwanted cracker to the citizens around it.

racism gets funnier and funnier with each claim. people are beginning to see that blacks are some of the most racist people ever. whites are begining to unite over the topic, and that makes people nervous.

FYI, there is no such thing as ‘reverse racism’, unless that means yelling racial slurs out your car window while driving in reverse.  Racism is racism.

racism noun- the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. • prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief

For one eaxmple of racism, look to the statements about American whites made by j.johnson in his post.

J.Johnson said “American whites are a cowardly, fearful people that deny real problems”

Spoken like a true racist.  You asked us to comment when we see or hear racism, J. Johnson.  Well I just heard it coming from you.  You are no better than anti-black racists.

Gary,
Races mix all the time and have for thousands of years.  There’s some DNA testing service that can trace your heritage back millennia. What they’ve found is that almost EVERYONE is a blend.

Two places where the mix is OBVIOUS:
1) Central and South America. From Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California, to the tip of Chile, the vast proportion of the people are a mix of races of European, Indigenous, and Black.  I have a friend who immigrated from Brazil.  He and his wife and kids have slightly olive complexions.  But his kid brother has red hair, a ruddy complexion and freckles, and his nephew is a very dark-skinned Black kid.  And they are all one loving family.

You can find EVERY kind of mix in the Latin countries--there’s little, if any “pure” races.  So what? Brazil is an economic powerhouse which will rival us eventually.

2) When Alexander the Great reached India, he followed the policy he had always followed of encouraging his troops to inter-marry with the local population. The result changed the way people “look” who are from there. Age-old sculpture shows them once looking much more like the Eastern Asian peoples.  And India is ANOTHER economic power-house making in-roads.

Finally: Think about it--what makes us white, yellow, brown or black? Melanin. You have more of it, you are darker. You have less, you are lighter.  You threaten your skin with UV, and it responds by making more Melanin to protect you (we call it “tanning").  My point? We are all THE SAME COLOR!  Just some of us are more of it and some of us are less of it.  Same color, different shades.

I’ve seen people like your Japanese friend.  In my kid’s school there was a kid whose background was Chinese.  His parents told him to keep away from White kids and he tried (only partially successfully) to set up a clique of other kids whose families came from China to exclude all others. Pure racism, learned at home.  To their credit, most of the other kids were less interested.

Bigotry, ignorance and hatred is common to ALL humans, regardless of their background.

Isn’t there a test Anonymous can take to discover that he’s not just a little racist, but actually just a little bit not a racist.  He reminds me of the guy who got sick to his stomach at a lynching and so thinks he’s a not a racist. He thinks he’s come very far and is a cut above his friends, but it’s not much. But he’s not the real problem here. The real problem is Big Shot syndrome, of the nature of a Ken Lay, who thought simply because he and Dick Cheney and the president were friends that he could do any damn thing.  George Allen, and many others riding high in this administration, have become similarly drunk, and have actually come to believe getting away with stuff is the same as doing no wrong. As the walls come tumbling down as they did for Mr. Lay, Mr. Allen and some of his buddies will undoubtedly begin to remember a few things they used to know, that in all the excitement, they forgot. Big Shot syndrome. It can happen to anyone. Tom Delay’s a good example. So is Tom Cruise for that matter. Watch out for it when you get on a roll. Anonymous fortunately, is not a big shot.

I’ve had issues with race my whole life! My grandfather was a grand dragon of the klan, my dad is extremely predjudice as well. So of course I am right? I wish I could say no but, when it comes to blacks as they want to be called after one of my “friends” at the time so assertively corrected my grandma for calling him colored which is what they called NIGGERS in her day, hell yeah I’m prejudice! I realize there are black people who are good people and I wouldn’t call them the N word but those are the ones who don’t hate me or feel I owe them something like restitution for slavery for example, just because I’m white! I was told by a couple of black “friends” once I was predjudice just because I said I didn’t think races should mix, and that if God wanted us to all be one color we would be! I said well, If it wasn’t for people like me you wouldn’t have any white girls to go out with would you?! Since the only girls they went out with were white! Trophies I guess. Anyway I drive a truck around this country and I can guarantee you racism on both ends still exists very much and it would only take a spark to start a very big fire! In Georgia for example I saw two towns that were completely black and white respectively! The major cities are where the most predjudice is on both sides! Country people seem to get along better. What’s funny is my Japanese friend wouldn’t dare let his kid marry non Japanese so we teased him and called him a racist! There’s nothing wrong with being who you are, after all you are who you are! Hate me if you must.

I don’t doubt for a moment that George Allen used the word nigger in the past and probably still uses it today. I also don’t doubt that he knew exactly what the term “macaca” meant when he used it to call out the Webb campaign worker. My personal feeling as a black man about the word nigger is this: if, after 350 years, the best insult that a non-black person can come up with is to call me a nigger I don’t much care anymore.

BTW, Anonymous is full of it. He or she does not know and has never met any white niggers. This person is just trying to jerk everybody’s chain.

Dear Anonymous, isn’t there a moonshine still somehwere that needs tinkering?  Run along now, you’re making a fool of yourself.

Reading your replies it is obvious to me that none of you have the slightest idea of the impact of word “nigger”.

“White Nigger”, please! No white has ever been called a nigger while being lynched or while being denied an active, positive role in society or peace on their job site.

Being denied good service or no service is a resturant, really! That has been a regular occurance in minority life nationwide for decades. Poor you! Stop your whining!

Apparently, whites, when the tables are turned and non-whites fight back and they are treated with the same distain, contempt and hatred that they have subjected non-whites to over hundreds of years,(like muslim terrorism whose people whites have terrorized for centuries), up to today all you do is whine, bitch and moan about your “eroding rights” and feelings or feign understanding of their feelings.

American whites are a cowardly, fearful people that deny real problems. This issue of rce MUST be confronted at all times everywhere or it never dies...GET IT!

Every time one of you people see any racist act or comment SAY SOMETHING even if it’s spewed by friends and family, I certainly do.

White society here has created a dollar racist monster that we all have to live but we can only kill in pieces. It will take generations to kill it off completely.

By the way, the vast majority of the world is definitely non-white and non-european, embrace it because you can’t fight it.

All the posters here have missed the point.  And Anonymous is just as racist as he accuses others of being.  I have NO idea what a “white nigger” is, but he seems to think it’s something that indicates he has a concept of what a “nigger” is.

Yes, I HAVE been a victim of reverse racism, and, yes, it happened in DC (Not Anacostia, either, but in central DC in NW). It wasn’t recent either--it was over 20 years ago, long before Anonymous experienced it.  Nor do I have ANY reason to suspect it has changed.  Reverse racism is wrong, too, and doesn’t justify racism.

Lots of people learn racism in their youth.  They hear people called Nigger, Spic, Wop, Guinea, Polack, Kike, Hebe, Mick, Pommie, Spade, Chink, Jap, Kraut and Gook. (just to name a few)

I have friends who grew up when there was White school and a Colored school, Whites Only, and Colored Water Fountains.  They are HORRIFIED that they considered this normal as kids. My point? They grew up, saw the world, and realized how TERRIBLY WRONG the south of their youth was.

LBJ had been a typical southerner.  Then, as a young man, he somehow got into teaching Black kids for a brief time and had an epiphany that lasted his whole life. He burned more bridges and made more enemies pushing through the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than even his mangling of the Viet Nam war.  But he did the right thing.

George Allen has shown that his use of “nigger” in his youth was not something he ever confronted. He may not use the word now, but he uses code words instead.  “Macaca” showed us that. It’s not a nonsense word.  It’s a non-English slur he learned.

That’s the difference between Allen and Webb. Both used the term in their youth, but Allen never learned that his racism was wrong, just “Don’t say the N-word”.

“Nigger” was used to justify the abbrogation of our civil liberties in 1/3 of our nation. It was used to justify thousands of un-prosecuted murders over a century--lynchings.  It was, at one time, synonomous with being a slave.  Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn exposed this attitude--in 1840’s Missouri there was no other word for Blacks--and slave and “Nigger” were one and the same.  There’s a reason for it to be THE third rail of politics.

What I NEVER have understood is Blacks calling each other “Nigger”.  This is nothing new, either.  I heard discussion of this weird phenomenon over 40 years ago.  I’m sure someone will explain it to me, but it is STILL incredibly stupid.

Is there racism?  Of course there is.

The problem is, the press rather ignores the fact that the biggest racists in the USA today are black.

And if you don’t believe me, try to get a meal in Anacostia (District of Columbia) as a white boy.

Why should the press ignore it, so stupid white people can keep trying to convince themselves and gullible blacks that There is No More Racism? Excuse me, unless Bill Gates inserted an Anti-Racist microchip in every white American’s ass, then there is still racism in America, and the press is duty-bound to report it. Only a privileged white or a self-hating black could say something as stupid as Mr. Worm Casting. Good Reporting Truthdig

If you think ‘nigger’ is the most potent epithet of all, you have clearly never called an American woman ‘cunt’.  You’d better be prepared to run like hell afterward.  LOL.

“Nigger” is not a color, it’s an attitude.  An attitude of the world owes you a living because of your condition or the suppression of your particular clan or group.

I know plenty of white niggers.  Two of them occupied the White House for 8 years in the recent past.  One is currently the junior Senator from New York.

This whole thing would go away if the press just ignored it.  Instead, they are making a mountain out of a worm casting.  (Had to find something smaller than a mole hill.)