Racial bias: a poll for people who used to be black and are now white

[Boojatta]

[JonLP24]

1. WTF?

[Boojatta]

7. If you used to be black and are now white, then you can make a comparison.

Study: Whites say they face more racism than blacks

[yurbud]

12. especially whites who watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh

[blondeatlast]

2. Other: I would pay to introduce Boojatta to RBTexLA and buy them dinner

as long as I could watch it on a webcam and discuss it with fellow DUers.

[hfojvt]

5. I think the point may be

that none of us really knows how the other half dies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkarj6uJdE

[Zephie]

3. Uh... What?

The only person I know of who did that is Michael Jackson and I'm pretty sure he's not on DU. Or alive. What's the point of this poll?

[EFerrari]

18. Boojatta is making a point about white people who seem to think

they are good judges of how much racism black people face in this country, maybe?

[onehandle]

4. I hate myself for loving me. nt

[The Wielding Truth]

6. I guess this makes racism pretty darn clear. Skin color does affect perception in America.

[Nye Bevan]

8. Michael Jackson is dead. And I don't think he was a DUer, anyway (nt)

[damntexdem]

9. Other: we all used to be black but some are now white.

A mutation millenia ago.

But there was no racial bias until a few hundred years ago.

[abelenkpe]

10. Two ethnomusicolgy professors at college

once said:
"I thought, if we went back far enough, we were all Africans."
the other:
"And I thought we were all Jewish."

They did make incredible music together.

[HopeHoops]

11. "I was born a poor black child" - Steve Martin at the beginning of "The Jerk".

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. "You mean I'm going to stay this color?"

:)

[HopeHoops]

15. Oh shit. If we're going to get into quoting that movie we're going to need a new thread.

[msanthrope]

23. Shit? or Shinola? n/t

[HopeHoops]

25. I WARNED you!

[EFerrari]

17. "I could be black by now." Woody Allen.

:)

[KamaAina]

14. I knew it!

Michael Jackson faked his own death. :eyes:

edit: better :sarcasm: than sorry

[MissMarple]

16. A white guy wrote a book about his experience as a black man.

It was in the 60's, "Black like Me" I believe was the title. He shaved his head and stained his skin.

[Nay]

22. Good book. It was required reading at my high school. This poll isn't as odd

as you might think -- there ARE people who were once black and are now white. I have a black friend who is quite light skinned, and she told me that she had a number of relatives who, after growing up black, left the area and spent the rest of their lives "passing" as white. Now, THOSE are the people who could answer that poll.

[Luminous Animal]

24. It's a good book.

Jonathan Yardley at the Washington Post wrote a good article about it a few years ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602173.html


Also good, is the movie Watermelon Man starring Godfrey Cambridge as a white man who wakes up one morning in brown skin.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. I am neither...

Oh well, I have always been the odd one out.. :P

[slackmaster]

20. Instead of assuming that I am a pimp, people now assume that I carry Grey Poupon mustard everywhere

[DevonRex]

21. Hey, I actually get this poll!!!