I live in the South. I have found myself on both sides of this conversation more than once. I’ve been refused service because I look white and I’ve seen others treated badly for their race or religion. I’ve been kicked out of a Christian Science reading room where I went because I wanted to learn more about scientology simply because I don’t follow their religion and I once saw deacons in my own church physically intimidating Jehovas witnesses who came before a service to hand out their literature inside our church. I’ve heard countless racist jokes. My reaction is always to fight against it in a peaceful but firm way. I can never let things like that just happen even if I get into trouble I simply have to speak out.
I feel bad of things. Just want world peace.
i think they repeated this experiment many times and only chose the most shocking reactions. i noticed it was all older, white men, and they all seemed to react the same way… that isn’t how an experiment should be run. the population sample was wayyy to limited.
@radicalramblings - it probably recognizes black and white as adjectives instead of races, and Hispanic as a proper noun
@AnchorsAwayx - There were young people too. They didn’t show all of them on Camera. If you listen they state the number of who did what. Many did nothing either way. Not all were shown on Camera. This was done in Texas
I have several dear friends who are Muslim, and also several dear friends who are what you would call “fundamental” Christians. I have friends who are Jews, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witness, and about a dozen other faiths. I have friends that are black, white, hispanic, and every mix in between.
And I don’t understand why my spell-checker wants to capitalize some of those, but not others. *sigh*
I used to belong to a Southern Baptist church, where the members were voting on the possibility of finding another small, struggling church to merge with. One of the members stood up and announced that she was fine with a merger, as long as it was “a white congregation.” I walked out of the meeting, and I would later find myself wishing I’d never looked back.
Now I go to an un-affiliated Baptist church that has an outreach ministry to the multi-racial housing projects nearby, that welcomes anyone with open arms regardless of what they look like, what they’re wearing, or what their background is.
While I think that this should never happen, I think it should not be the goernment’s job to regulate who a business can serve. There should be enough social pressure to stop this sort of thing that the government is not needed…I guess I am getting into a different subject though.
I think that we as Americans have a duty to speak up for what we believe in, not to stay silent. So I guess it’s very disheartening that that many people believed that discrimination was okay. (Silence in this instance is the same as condoning it.)
“Silence in this instance is the same as condoning it”
I absolutely agree!
The funny thing is that I have heard similar stories from some Christian friends who choose to dress modestly!! Isn’t it absolutely horrific to realize that in this case it is not just “what would you do *Muslim*” but rather “what would you do Christian (dressed according to the Bible)”, “Jew(dressed according to the Bible)”. !!!!
Funny thing, that it is OK to wear next to nothing (this makes you American and civilized) and not OK to wear more than the minimum requirement (which makes you Un-American and a *camel-rider* according to some *Americans*).
What is more interesting and actually in some sense ironic is the fact that in the Stone Age (the period known as *uncivilized*, people used to dress very similar to the way the majority of people in *civilized countries* dress now ,….later when our dear Stone-Age ancestors actually became civilized (or correct me if I’m mistaken) they learned to dress in a more covered way!!!!. …..and TODAY?????!!!!!!! well actually I’m at a loss for words…. were Shakespeare alive today he would have most probably changed Hamlets words from *to be or not to be* into “to be civilized or not to be civilized, THAT is the Question!!”
Help us all, Dear L-rd.
Eli
Actually I am not sure if a agree withh that statement. I think until relatively recent in human culture you can see people’s clothing evolving to what is practical according to the weather and what they had to do to survive, but I will research it and post. (One example I lknow of off the top of my head is that we didn’t get pants until horses were being ridden regularly
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I am a american and this angers me so much
I live in the South. I have found myself on both sides of this conversation more than once. I’ve been refused service because I look white and I’ve seen others treated badly for their race or religion. I’ve been kicked out of a Christian Science reading room where I went because I wanted to learn more about scientology simply because I don’t follow their religion and I once saw deacons in my own church physically intimidating Jehovas witnesses who came before a service to hand out their literature inside our church. I’ve heard countless racist jokes. My reaction is always to fight against it in a peaceful but firm way. I can never let things like that just happen even if I get into trouble I simply have to speak out.
I feel bad of things. Just want world peace.
i think they repeated this experiment many times and only chose the most shocking reactions. i noticed it was all older, white men, and they all seemed to react the same way… that isn’t how an experiment should be run. the population sample was wayyy to limited.
@radicalramblings - it probably recognizes black and white as adjectives instead of races, and Hispanic as a proper noun
@AnchorsAwayx - There were young people too. They didn’t show all of them on Camera. If you listen they state the number of who did what. Many did nothing either way. Not all were shown on Camera. This was done in Texas
I have several dear friends who are Muslim, and also several dear friends who are what you would call “fundamental” Christians. I have friends who are Jews, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witness, and about a dozen other faiths. I have friends that are black, white, hispanic, and every mix in between.
And I don’t understand why my spell-checker wants to capitalize some of those, but not others. *sigh*
I used to belong to a Southern Baptist church, where the members were voting on the possibility of finding another small, struggling church to merge with. One of the members stood up and announced that she was fine with a merger, as long as it was “a white congregation.” I walked out of the meeting, and I would later find myself wishing I’d never looked back.
Now I go to an un-affiliated Baptist church that has an outreach ministry to the multi-racial housing projects nearby, that welcomes anyone with open arms regardless of what they look like, what they’re wearing, or what their background is.
@Kristenmomof3 - ohh gotchya.
While I think that this should never happen, I think it should not be the goernment’s job to regulate who a business can serve. There should be enough social pressure to stop this sort of thing that the government is not needed…I guess I am getting into a different subject though.
I think that we as Americans have a duty to speak up for what we believe in, not to stay silent. So I guess it’s very disheartening that that many people believed that discrimination was okay. (Silence in this instance is the same as condoning it.)
@Pensamientos@revelife -
“Silence in this instance is the same as condoning it”
I absolutely agree!
The funny thing is that I have heard similar stories from some Christian friends who choose to dress modestly!! Isn’t it absolutely horrific to realize that in this case it is not just “what would you do *Muslim*” but rather “what would you do Christian (dressed according to the Bible)”, “Jew(dressed according to the Bible)”. !!!!
Funny thing, that it is OK to wear next to nothing (this makes you American and civilized) and not OK to wear more than the minimum requirement (which makes you Un-American and a *camel-rider* according to some *Americans*).
What is more interesting and actually in some sense ironic is the fact that in the Stone Age (the period known as *uncivilized*, people used to dress very similar to the way the majority of people in *civilized countries* dress now ,….later when our dear Stone-Age ancestors actually became civilized (or correct me if I’m mistaken) they learned to dress in a more covered way!!!!. …..and TODAY?????!!!!!!! well actually I’m at a loss for words…. were Shakespeare alive today he would have most probably changed Hamlets words from *to be or not to be* into “to be civilized or not to be civilized, THAT is the Question!!”
Help us all, Dear L-rd.
Eli
Actually I am not sure if a agree withh that statement. I think until relatively recent in human culture you can see people’s clothing evolving to what is practical according to the weather and what they had to do to survive, but I will research it and post. (One example I lknow of off the top of my head is that we didn’t get pants until horses were being ridden regularly