I don't believe that when one is attacked by people, even when it WAS racially motivated.
When I was in high school I was jumped by SEVERAL (at least 10) Southeast Asian guys for the remarks made by two of my friends , who were white.
I spent 16 days in the hospital for various injuries from internal bleeding and 6 fractured ribs to a concussion and partial hearing loss . Despite the attack, I have no dislike for Asians, nor any toward white.
When I lived In southern Illinois, I was the only person of color in a 245-soldier engineering company.
These guys would constantly berate me, threaten to lynch me in the field, or some such.
I never let it bother me, possibly because I was a MEDIC- and PEOPLE need to be healed on the battlefield- not races nor ethnicities.
I was recently ALMOST robbed at gunpoint by a Somalian kid.( okay, he was at least 20, so that's still a kid to me)
"Almost" because I KO'd the little punk.
Somalians here do not consider themselves "Black"-
So would THAT be considered a hate crime??
We are the bastard children of sellout Africans, as I have been told by a friend of mine, who is also Somalian.
Imagine that- INTRA-Racism !!!!
the moral of this anecdote is that people do stupid things ALL of the time- be it waging war or fucking with nature ....
The MOST Stupid thing, Especially in terms of racism, is to drop to the racist's level... REGARDLESS OF RACE-because that lets that racist, and all of those like them- win.
When I was in high school I was jumped by SEVERAL (at least 10) Southeast Asian guys for the remarks made by two of my friends , who were white.
I spent 16 days in the hospital for various injuries from internal bleeding and 6 fractured ribs to a concussion and partial hearing loss . Despite the attack, I have no dislike for Asians, nor any toward white.
When I lived In southern Illinois, I was the only person of color in a 245-soldier engineering company.
These guys would constantly berate me, threaten to lynch me in the field, or some such.
I never let it bother me, possibly because I was a MEDIC- and PEOPLE need to be healed on the battlefield- not races nor ethnicities.
I was recently ALMOST robbed at gunpoint by a Somalian kid.( okay, he was at least 20, so that's still a kid to me)
"Almost" because I KO'd the little punk.
Somalians here do not consider themselves "Black"-
So would THAT be considered a hate crime??
We are the bastard children of sellout Africans, as I have been told by a friend of mine, who is also Somalian.
Imagine that- INTRA-Racism !!!!
the moral of this anecdote is that people do stupid things ALL of the time- be it waging war or fucking with nature ....
The MOST Stupid thing, Especially in terms of racism, is to drop to the racist's level... REGARDLESS OF RACE-because that lets that racist, and all of those like them- win.