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Overt racism: Fine if you're female
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2009-03-03 20:47
Story here.
'NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was planning to hang up.'
Man gets arrested, woman gets... told to stop. And then nothing else happens.
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Its all a matter of how many
Its all a matter of how many victim groups you are identified with, young white males have none, women have gender card, old people have age card, minorities have race card, physcially impaired or disease have PC sympathy card.
I'm sure their are more, but the woman had gender and a small age card.
Feminism is an elitist movement anyway
I don't know whether this lady is a feminist or not, but if she is that at least partially explains her racism: the fact is that feminism really only serves those relatively few women at the top, such as academics. In the long run, it stuffs the average woman.
It is an elitist movement, and African-Americans can sense that they are looked down upon by feminists. That is why there are so few black feminists - they are mainly in academia, as indicated above.
-ax
I'm not a racist by any
I'm not a racist by any means, but how can the actions of that man be a criminal offense? He didn't threaten anyone, he didn't yell "fire" in a theater, he didn't spray paint the "N" word on someones house? So, I don't get it. We have white supremacist groups who protest here in Nebraska and use the N word constantly. Unless he was charged for putting up the sign and not what the sign itself said. Nonetheless, you're right on about the bias.
It's called intimidation
I don't find this funny at all. The man put an intimidating sign on a public drinking fountain. I also find it very cowardly. Play a 'joke' where you don't have to hang around to get your ass kicked.
As the mother of two black children I would have been horrified if my children came accross a sign like that.
Of course I realize the reason the two stories are mentioned is to point out the difference on how differently the man was treated vs the woman. But the woman's sign was on private property and the man's was on public. That may have something to do with it.
Load of crap!
Yeah, but the woman clearly stated she would only rent to whites. That is a hate crime!
She should have been treated the same way.
Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Hate Crimes
She should have said that she'd only rent to women or minorities. Then it would have been fine.
Yes it is racist, but it's
Yes it is racist, but it's more feeling as if who ever did it is just a pathetic human being. It makes caucasain people look uneducated and non accepting more than anything to me. My two coworkers have electric engineering and biology degrees and they happen to be black or African americans (whichever is consider OK nowadays), and my two cousins are in and out of jail without a highschool dipoloma (white guys). Not to say another human being should judge another based on education, but to me stereotypes are only applicable until you interact with enough of the population and realize nobody chooses how they are born, age, sex, country, religous background, and makes do with their GIVEN circumstances. Everybody is born, everybody dies, the only choices occur on the dash of your tombstone between your birthday and deathday.
It was a Joke
Apparently the man's was a joke though. The woman's wasn't.