Dear Society, Please Stop With the Race Card

[Cappytaino]

So lately, I've noticed a trend at my school that is rather disturbing. In the last three days, I've heard someone pull the race card no less than four times, and every time, they suffered no consequences for their stupid actions. To elaborate, yesterday, one kid (who was black) stood up and threw his chair at a white kid. Both kids leave for the dean and 15 minutes later the black kid is back in class and the white kid was suspended. He got 2 days of in school suspension because of zero tolerance, but the other kid got no punishment. Now I go to the alternative high school, so we do have some characters, but when I asked various other students how that could be possible, they pulled the race card for him. He was just "venting his anger at the societal oppression" according to one. What in the forget. When I asked her to elaborate on her idea, she said, "He's frustrated because of segregation and slavery"

Now, I'm all for people expressing their opinions, but when they're stupid as forget, it pisses me off. I asked how that could be possible that he has enough pent up rage from something he has never experienced to literally assault somebody, and she said, "When it happened doesn't matter. People can still feel the oppression a hundred years later."

Alright, what the forget. I'm 60% Native American and 40% Irish and both groups faced heavy discrimination throughout the history of these great United States. From the reservations and the Trail of Tears to the widely accepted discrimination against the Irish, and the enslavement of the Irish by the British over 1000 years ago, I should be full of pent up rage, right? I should be forgetin mad, and when I literally assault someone to the point of drawing blood, it should be acceptable because my people have faced discrimination that I was never a part of, right?

I don't understand why people try to find ways to excuse the behavior of starfishs, regardless of race, but it especially pisses me off when they use the race card to excuse unacceptable behavior. As a disclaimer, I am not a tribal, I just hate when people make excuses because of race. If we truly are one universal race as people like to say, then it shouldn't matter.

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[Trogtor]

normally id say just deal with it. but damn what the hell that's forgeted up

[Blocky943]

tribals are like blacks, i hate them

jokes aside that's stupid as stuff that they're victim blaming

[XR-7]

Welcome to Ferguson

[sir dooble]

To be fair, you're only getting hearsay on whether he was excused for his actions by pulling the race card.
But I don't imagine it to be too unlikely.


I think sometimes schools give in to those sort of paltry excuses, because they don't want the backlash of people thinking they're punishing someone for being black. That's not so evident in this case, but I know that weaker-willed substitute teachers have let students in my classes get away with unacceptable behaviour because when called out on it they've said stupid things like "Why're you having a go at me? Is it because I'm black?".
I'm almost certainly cherry-picking scenarious I've witnessed, and then imagining the reasoning behind them, but I do think for a number of people or schools, it's easier to let people get away with something (that while should be unacceptable in a school, is a minor event) than to risk the issue of being called out on race issues.


But yeah, I do not believe that there is anyone who is so truly enraged by the treatment of black people decades and centuries ago that it causes them to violently lash out.
And even if it did enrage them to that extent, it is no excuse for the behaviour what so ever. Nothing gives you the right to attack other innocent people.

[Harm94]

60% Native American? Cherokee(practically everyone), Choctaw, Chickasaw, Lakota, Apache, Navajo, etc?

[XR-7]

60% Native American? Cherokee(practically everyone), Choctaw, Chickasaw, Lakota, Apache, Navajo, etc?

If he's mentioning the trail of tears, I'm going to assume Cherokee.

[Cappytaino]

60% Native American? Cherokee(practically everyone), Choctaw, Chickasaw, Lakota, Apache, Navajo, etc?

Cherokee, Muscogee, Choctaw

[Rainzx¹]

Modern black Americans need to get over themselves already, I'm pretty sure most if not all races have been discriminated against, or used as slaves in the history of the world.

[Cappytaino]

Modern black Americans need to get over themselves already, I'm pretty sure most if not all races have been discriminated against, or used as slaves in the history of the world.

I don't have a problem with black people, just people who make excuses for other people acting like starfishs. Or making excuses for themselves.

[Foxscotch]

I think this is made up

[nickpb1]

 Black people smell like stuff

[MoltenKitten]

I'm gonna go on a shooting rampage and say that i'm having rage for the fact that im part irish and my ancestors were oppressed

[Cappytaino]

I think this is made up

I can assure you that it's true. The kid who threw the chair was initially supposed to have ISS too but he somehow got out of it.

[Ipquarx]

Whites are equally as harassed as blacks are these days