I AM NOT BLACK AND YOU ARE NOT WHITE

eddie wrote:This video made me cry, I love it and would love you all to pass it on via media sites elsewhere.
(Don't get all smug though, if you feel that you already think this way, because 95% of you on here still stick labels on people. They're just not necessarily  coloured ones. )

eddie wrote:I don't like labels. They are dangerous and the video makes a good point: if no one gave you a "colour label" what would you be??

Eilzel wrote:Labels have their place. I do label myself gay, because I see it as something some people still think should be hidden, and by acknowledging is part of my identity I defy those expectations. But ultimately those labels should not define us.

sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:I don't like labels. They are dangerous and the video makes a good point: if no one gave you a "colour label" what would you be??

A human being.

I don't like labels or borders, because that is what we all are.

Eilzel wrote:Labels have their place. I do label myself gay, because I see it as something some people still think should be hidden, and by acknowledging is part of my identity I defy those expectations. But ultimately those labels should not define us.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

I HAVE cousins with darker complexions than that...

I could have, and have had, darker skin than that, too, after a couple of weeks living on a beach..

And I'm still "caucasian", however one spins it.

I find that those who attempt to divide everyone into emotionally-loaded and bigotted terms like "black, white, yellow, coloured (i.e. inter-racial..)" as if it should actually mean something, are largely ignorant, non-thinking and/or plain lazy in their thought processes..


AND NO, blackie333 --  you don't make your racially-biased jokes "in jest" -- but rather people like you do that as a windup, basically because you think it's fun to be controversial and a stirrer.  Pretty well puts you in the same camp as Major when it comes to your idea of humour..

eddie wrote:I don't like labels. They are dangerous and the video makes a good point: if no one gave you a "colour label" what would you be??

Irn Bru wrote:

eddie wrote:I don't like labels. They are dangerous and the video makes a good point: if no one gave you a "colour label" what would you be??

I'd be tartan

eddie wrote:Pfffff. Go and play somewhere else you two.

eddie wrote:I'm starting to really like your music. I think you're brainwashing me.... country-style.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

I HAVE cousins with darker complexions than that...

I could have, and have had, darker skin than that, too, after a couple of weeks living on a beach..

And I'm still "caucasian", however one spins it.

I find that those who attempt to divide everyone into emotionally-loaded and bigotted terms like "black, white, yellow, coloured (i.e. inter-racial..)" as if it should actually mean something, are largely ignorant, non-thinking and/or plain lazy in their thought processes..


AND NO, blackie333 --  you don't make your racially-biased jokes "in jest" -- but rather people like you do that as a windup, basically because you think it's fun to be controversial and a stirrer.  Pretty well puts you in the same camp as Major when it comes to your idea of humour..